{"id":436,"date":"2007-04-11T08:58:33","date_gmt":"2007-04-11T07:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=436"},"modified":"2007-04-11T08:58:33","modified_gmt":"2007-04-11T07:58:33","slug":"cool-art-i-cant-wait-to-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=436","title":{"rendered":"Cool art I can&#8217;t wait to see"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coming to the Burning Man 2007: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orbswarm.com\/\">OrbSwarm (also known as SWARM)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>SWARM is a funded large scale kinetic art project for Burning Man 2007. It consists of a number of rolling spherical vehicles, actuated by a non-rolling interior with a counterweight. With GPS guidance and computer control, the spheres can execute motions evocative of animals and dancers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Huge ball things dancing in patterns across the desert, guided by GPS? Damn, I hope I can afford to go, just to see that!<\/p>\n<p>Also sounding very fun is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.4bc.org\/burninator\/burninator_x.html\">Burninator X<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Burninator X is a very large scale fire installation currently under construction, for installation at Burning Man 2007. It will be a 2-dimensional set of flame towers arranged in a cross, in an area of approx. 1\/2 million square feet. It will produce 2-D patterns and sequences of flame, visible for miles. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On a slightly more environmentally friendly note, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apocalypsestagecoach.com\/\">Apocalypse Stagecoach<\/a> is &#8216;bicycle powered stagecoach theatre&#8217; who will be performing &#8216;Puppet Shows For The End Of The World&#8217;. That&#8217;s my kind of entertainment&#8230; And it&#8217;s nice that it&#8217;s not completely destroying the environment while it&#8217;s doing it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming to the Burning Man 2007: OrbSwarm (also known as SWARM). SWARM is a funded large scale kinetic art project for Burning Man 2007. It consists of a number of rolling spherical vehicles, actuated by a non-rolling interior with a counterweight. With GPS guidance and computer control, the spheres can execute motions evocative of animals &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=436\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cool art I can&#8217;t wait to see<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-things"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5bQqr-72","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1071"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}