I meant the text that the URL represented didn't make sense.. LCD screens
are quite expensive, a three story high LCD (wether made of other LCD's or
not) would cost upwards of a million or so I imagine..
Geoff
This one time, at band camp, Max Heim wrote:
> Geoffrey Gallaway had this to say:
>
> >No, that url's text makes no sense..
> >
> Sure it does -- just add "http://"; to the front of it.
>
> <http://www.eio.com/public/lcd.1999/0388.html> worked for me.
>
> By the way, I have heard of this art project. The LCD screens are
> apparently a new embellishment. They may help make a little more sense
> out of what was almost purely conceptual (whether you think any of it
> makes any sense is up to you).
>
> This project consists of what it says -- a three-story tall filing
> cabinet. In the file drawers are the remnants of a shredded 1974 Midget.
> The pieces are sorted and filed by weight. Apparently the LCD screens are
> intended to be attached to the fronts of the drawers to show pictures of
> the pieces, which will flash by in 1/3 second, controlled by computer.
>
> I don't know if the artist deliberately chose a Midget for personal or
> symbolic reasons, or it was just an old wreck handy to be shredded. Maybe
> it was his driver and Lucas let him down one too many times.
>
> Curiously, I know of one other piece of "small roadster art". In San
> Francisco on 3rd Street across from Moscone Center there is a multistory
> parking garage. On the outside of the top floor is the body of a Fiat 850
> Spider, cut into even size squares, and laid out flat against the
> vertical surface of the building, looking like a cut-out paper model
> waiting to be folded.
>
>
> --
>
> Max Heim
> '66 MGB GHN3L76149
> If you're near Mountain View, CA,
> it's the red one with the silver bootlid.
>
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