how to make an ice-cream cone buckyball

i make these buckminster fuller-inspired buckyballs from ice-cream cones, then deploy them in unexpected locations as a kind of biodegradable graffiti. this is a how-to video with original guitar composition by julian mock (please see julianmock.com for more info). more odd works of ephemera at alycesantoro.com.

Category:

Film & Animation

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• ice-cream
• cones
• stop
• action
• animation
• cone
• buckyball
• buckminster
• fuller
• how-to
• graffiti
• ephemera
• alyce
• santoro

[gautamcreative]

hey....dats a grt job......cn u plz tell how many cones are required..4 making it????

[alyceobvious]

@gautamcreative each ball requires about 90 cones.

[paulcubbage]

I love it!

As a pedant at heart, I have to ask, aren't fullerenes formed from pentagons and hexagons? and how would we make an edible one?

[alyceobvious]

@paulcubbage you are correct!! this form was more "inspired" - with much poetic license taken by the artist (me) - by bucky. : ) maybe we'd have to use pretzel or candy sticks to make a "real" edible buckyball?

[sweetness159753]

thanks so much instead of glue i used icing and i put little ice ceam scoops in there and i used it as my birthday cake!!!

[alyceobvious]

just what i hoped people might do - bravo!! and happy birthday!! : )

[RookieZeratul]

And how do u put ice cream in all of them?

[Radjehuty]

you should clip the tips of the cones and assemble them around multi-colored lightbulbs o.o

[MyMargaret10]

thats one yummy ball

[pokemonkiller20]

they look like gnomes

[bieberisafag100]

thats some sexy stop-motion

[paulcubbage]

@alyceobvious You have an artistic license and used if well! The issue is this: you were inspired by materials at hand and where can we find natural pentagons, and save Saturn, natural hexagons?

Maybe some great food producer will give us buckball raw materials as wonderful as sugar cones! Ben and Jerry? or Starbucks? Starbuckyballs!!!!

Thanks again for the fun of this!

[dragonwellable]

This is not technically a buckyball, as there is no tesselation of the shapes that trace the surface area of the ball. Still very cool, just not accurate.

[dragonwellable]

This is not technically a buckyball, as ther is no tesselation of the shapes that trace the surface area of the bal. Still very cool, just not accurate.