On 10/25/05, Christopher M. Kelty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's also not a car because it can fold in half, so that the wheels > can land on top of each other... it's more like a floppy four legged > thing with giant rotating spheres on each limb. I don't think there's > a good metaphor...
That's a hard one - if it moves and it's that flexible and you can't do anything with it - it's sort of like the justifications for the invasion of Iraq. But this doesn't really fit - the Buckymobile is solid matter and the justifications are gaseous. But even lacking a metaphor - it's extremely cool in the sense that it's fun to think with. Eugene thinks about this stuff much more than I do so he might not be as amused - but aside from the techniques of making it I think that the main value of the Buckymobile is that it's good for the imagination. It's illustrating what is possible with a concrete example. Maybe it can be filed under the category '21st century post-post modern art'?
