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An art installation, for installation in whatever smooth and right-angled corporate plaza you feel most requires it, that celebrates the single manner in which today's professional man can express his identity: the tie.
Yes, this fountain squirts neckties from its spouts, each tie arcing and unravelling
like a hooligan-tossed toilet roll, a streak of colour unfurling against the austere background of polished granite Speerian architecture, before falling into the pool.
Ties are collected by means of a magnet, placed in the tip of each tie, this magnet being sufficient to ensure a comely arc of flight, and a magnetically guided journey, nose first, into the subterranean bowels of the fountain, where the tie is re-rolled and pumped back up the spout, again into the chill light, to be marvelled at by each downtrodden drone that passes.
I learned somthing new...
http://www.randomho...pperl?date=20000824
[xandram, May 10 2007]
The inspiration
http://www.thai-fountain.com/
on a circuitous walk home [calum, May 14 2007]
Sports_20Tie
[hippo, May 16 2007]
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The whole thing could easily be done with compressed air. |
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This would be a cool home bling accessory for someone who wears ties (I don't). Imagine opening the closet and selecting a tie from a continuous fountain of them ... [+] |
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"Purple with red? I guess I'll wear that one." |
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Genius for its obvious insanity. [+] |
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This fountain is knot in Windsor then? |
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I think I'd like one in my closet. |
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I can't wait to see the "CSI" where they go round to the house of someone who had been pushed into his own tie fountain, then minced and fountained out by the terrible machine. |
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//This fountain is knot in Windsor then?// |
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I like it and what's more I think that there are office building developers wacky enough to install one here (Dubai). |
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[hippo], that'd be a man jerky fountain. |
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+ yes, please tie one on... |
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You could use it as an alternative national lottery machine. |
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This will work particularly well with kipper ties. |
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excellent. Puts me in mind of the machine which built and launched paper aeroplanes. |
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I was going to put up an idea called
"Down Me Kangaroo Tie Sport" about
ties that sprung up like Kangaroo tails...
but this is similar enough for me to not
need to now (will save own idea for
future ref) |
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A most excellent notion, monsieur
calum + |
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Brilliant. I don't think they have to be rolled; the magnets in the end provide a way for the machinery to grab each tie and move it around. |
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Very fun idea: coupled remote fountains. Two fountains at a distance from each other, which shoot ties to each other. One shoots low and the other shoots high, so ties don't collide and fall on unsuspecting cubists. |
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[elhigh], the rolling was not just for aethestic effect, for if the ties are unrolled before launch, there will be a certain amount of friction retarding the speed of the tie as it attempts to depart the spout. Rolled ties should fly further, rather than limply rolling out of the spouts, looking like a panting dog's curiously paisley-pattered tongue. |
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Battling fountains would be awesome, though. Careful planning and precision engineering would allow a person to lie on his back between the two fountains and watch tartans appear, each clan represented in alphabetical order, though all with a pale blue (or grey) background. |
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