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Toto’s ‘Africa’ Will Play Forever on Loop in the Namib Desert (2019)
- sitkack 6y agoZero engineering effort has been put into this. I am sorry, but this is lame. Had they constructed a shape that could float on the changing dunes, something that could charge into a medium that wouldn't degrade, this won't even last 6 months, then it would be interesting. I was hoping for Discotheque of the Long Now.
- xupybd 6y agoI think the title is setting us up here. I'm not sure the artist actually intended it to last forever. Art like this is more about making a statement, rather than making a feat of engineering.
- sitkack 6y agoWhat is the statement, rich white Europeans leave trash in the sand? edit, I don't think was even in the desert. The video is motion tracked. The artist is bad dancer with no butt hole. https://vimeo.com/maxsiedentopf https://vimeo.com/maxsiedentopf
- core-questions 6y ago> Discotheque of the Long Now makes you want to start the Sandbenders ( http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=80 http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=80 ) and build the thing yourself
- greendude29 6y agoHow is this not just littering? Don't litter the desert because of your childish fascination with a song.
- suitcaseman2 6y agoAt first I thought it was some kind of passive speaker structure using wind as its input lol