2nd Skin Sunset

Sunset. April 25, 2008. Get a bell and ring it everyday for a year at sunrise and sunset. This installment: Second Skin at the Exploratorium. Sunset inside the museum was a festive event. Just a few of us started ringing bells and as people passed by, we offered bells to them. Being that this was the Exploratorium and visitors are used to interacting with strangers, Participation wasn't conditional on knowing why. They just took the bells and joined in. As if it wasn't enough noise and wonderful cacophony at that moment, a parade of people on bikes began to ride by. However -- not just bikes and not just ordinary bike riders. Michael Brown led a line of huge suspensions of colored fireflies hanging on loose limbed trees attached to the bikes. It made the pedaling wildly erratic. The branches swayed and light bounced and floated in an arhythmic dance. We couldn't stop ringing and so accompanied them as they careened by.
links for more information about:
2nd skin http://www.news.com/8301-13772_3-9929676-52.html
The Exploratorium http://www.exploratorium.edu/2ndskin/
Michael Brown http://isaac.exploratorium.edu/michaelb/artwork/artworks.html

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