Balancing Act
I guess I’m addicted. My desk is a veritable stonehenge of sorts. If only the rest of my life was as balanced.
I’m borrowing a friend’s camera… but I think I need to stop building and start reading the manual. I spent more time trying to photograph the little rock piles than it took to construct them!
Now… I must contemplate larger projects. But first, back to Aramaic for class tomorrow.
October 31st, 2005 at 9:49 pm
Dang, this is so cool! As far as larger projects, I can think of all kinds of places back in Montana - high moutain vistas with miles and miles of granite boulder fields to pick from. With a couple of people who knew how to build these things I’ll bet you could create some pretty spectacular… what do you call them anyway? cairns? piles? hmmm… whatever they are. I’m eager to play with these! Thanks for sharing the pics!
November 1st, 2005 at 8:10 am
Do you get extra bonus points for using your rocks with fossils on them?!
November 1st, 2005 at 7:59 pm
November 1st, 2005 at 8:08 pm
Hmmm… pretty pathetic. I’m going to have to work on some more impressive looking constructions.
November 1st, 2005 at 10:00 pm
It appears that the spirit of Christo has come upon you.
November 2nd, 2005 at 3:30 pm
Hi Karyn,
I’m the sponsor / designer / webmaster of http://www.rock-on-rock-on.com.
I’d like permission to include you on a Learners page on the site.
I can make a Guest directory on our site for your images if you’d like to share larger size files; you’d have control over the text on the entry for you.
Daliel
November 2nd, 2005 at 4:00 pm
OK, so I’m not the only one who likes to balance little piles of rocks. Here’s Bill Dan’s miniature efforts.
I think I’ll refer to the desktop rock balancing as Bonsai Balancing!
November 2nd, 2005 at 4:57 pm
Don’t miss Dave Gorman’s Pocket Rocks:
http://www.rock-on-rock-on.com/others-pockets-more.html
Even I’ve been inspired to try it out!
November 2nd, 2005 at 6:07 pm
Thanks to Daliel, I’m an official “learner” on the http://www.rock-on-rock-on.com website, the home of the very inspiring Bill Dan. Check it out!
November 2nd, 2005 at 6:57 pm
[...] You can see more pictures of her work on her blog. And here are some miniature examples. [...]
November 4th, 2005 at 10:42 pm
Ok, Karyn - you have inspired my kids! Here’s Malachi’s creation from tonight (he’s still downstairs building more)
http://granitepeaks.blogspot.com/2005/11/spaceship-earth.html
November 4th, 2005 at 10:51 pm
Way to go, Malachi! And Christian’s efforts were pretty amazing too. I’ve got 5 towers on my desk right now… and one of them is still standing from Monday night!
November 5th, 2005 at 12:47 am
Can you imagine the conversations at Chez Traphagen?
Karyn: [in a stage whisper] “MARK!”
Mark: [in a normal voice] “Yes, dear?”
K: “Shhhhh!”
M: [quieter] “What!? Is someone breaking into the apartment?”
K: “No! You’re just mumbling about Enns’s class too loudly! My rocks are wobbling and might take a tumble!”
M: [mumbles]
[OTOH, it's nice to be able to make comments like, "My rocks are wobbling and might take a tumble!" here, rather than on the Random Board, where it would quickly become a perverse euphemism.]
I’d be too inclined to make use of adhesives and epoxies to preserve these efforts … I guess too many years of Photoshopping makes me doubt stuff like this, even though I know it can certainly be done. [Mmmmm ... cynicism on a Friday night.]
November 5th, 2005 at 8:15 am
Oh, it’s for real!
Of course, now I just made another “Internet testimony” to something being true, and we all know what that’s worth.
November 5th, 2005 at 12:20 pm
$0.17.
November 5th, 2005 at 12:26 pm
That much?
November 5th, 2005 at 4:25 pm
Inflation, don’tchaknow?
November 9th, 2005 at 8:30 pm
Karyn,
How cool! Derek is going to start trying to build rocks as well. I will have to give him your pictures and website for his birthday present!! (Yes! He is 7 years old!) Melissa
November 9th, 2005 at 8:38 pm
Wow, they sure do grow up fast, Melissa! You need to take some pictures of Derek’s rock balancing and send them to me. Tell him I said “Happy Birthday!”