Chaos Theory: Part Two

This is the second of a two-part posting. Click here to see Chaos Theory: Part One.

As indicated by the text, the original publication included a mail-in form for use in reporting the results of your own experiments with chaos. I'm not including the form in this post, but feel free to leave comments about your chaos experiments.

Chaos Theory: Part One

Here is a little art book I produced a while back. Actually it's not so little, so it will appear in two posts. Here's the first.

Stay tuned! In the next  posting you'll find the actual chaos experiment instructions. It should appear right above this post (in the upside-down logic that is blogging), or click on Chaos Theory: Part Two.

The Right to Bare Arms

Should women past a certain age bare their arms and wear sleeveless blouses? Is it anybody's business but their own? Hell, no! The right to bare arms badge:

Materials include railroad track rubble, recycled jewelry findings, a bullet shell found on the Oakland streets, and a doll's arm.

Pimp Your Toilet Brush

Again we pose the question, why tolerate boring manufactured objects in your abode?  Here we have the humble toilet brush in a mass-produced plastic container transformed from the mundane into an object of wonder.

Balance in a Box

No need to wait until you are out in nature to experience the soothing practice of balancing stones. Now there is Balance in a Box, the latest false product from Stuff You Can't Have.

Two or more stones are included in each matchbox-size container. All stones have undergone balance testing prior to packaging. Now you can balance stones in your corporate office on the 35th floor of a skyscraper or take a break in the unemployment line for a little instant stress reduction. For the back story on balancing stones see the previous post, Balance in Nature.

Balance in Nature

This is the first of a two-part posting. Here we have balance in nature, next we have balance in a box. I figured out how to balance stones after seeing a guy do it on the San Francisco waterfront. It looked like magic but I figured if he could do it, I could too. I was right, and I proceeded to balance stones out in nature around the world, leaving little visual gifts for whoever came along next.

Balancing stones on Vancouver Island

To balance stones: 

1. Find a small, almost undetectable dent or nick in the base rock 

2. Pick a rock to balance - the more unlikely looking the better (tall ovoid shapes work well)

3. Place one end of the rock in the dent you've found and, holding the rock lightly, move it in small increments this way and that until it strikes a perfect balance. You get better at this the more you do it.

Pimp Your Television Set

Still trying to figure out how to handle flat screens, but here are a couple of pimped out classic TV sets. I find unadorned appliances irksome. Sorry about the photo quality—these are scanned snapshots.

Flamingo TV

Flamingo TV: Iteration 2

Forbidden TV (loosely based on the "Forbidden China" exhibition at the Oakland Museum)