Balance art
Here’s a nice change of pace. Patience, patience.
I find this astounding. I’m assuming it’s on the up-and-up; what do you think?
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Here’s a nice change of pace. Patience, patience.
I find this astounding. I’m assuming it’s on the up-and-up; what do you think?
Wow!
Unless he has seriously tried, and still failed, to find gainful employ, I think he’s an idiot. More? I doubt he has any real skill. Most such things are mere tricks. Teach him to balance an account, run a business, or at least wash dishes. It’s not art. It’s probably not even skill, and even it it were, some skills just shouldn’t be acquired. Yes, it really is about filling the belly and this won’t do it. Once the belly can be satisfied regularly and easily, then go on into teh stupid.
Doom: Someone had to say it.
I think it is great. A seemingly impossible balancing of stones.
Useful? Are crossword puzzles useful, or painting landscapes, or many other diversions of humans.
Doom: You are certainly arrogant to make your judgements of the man with no evidence, go away and scowl in your mirror.
Joe,
Piss off. I said what I said and meant it. You idealists are the problem, not the solution.
People do weird cool worthless stuff, doesn’t mean they aren’t otherwise engaged in self-supporting socially acceptable work. Doesn’t look like he’s just come back from burning down the ‘hood in any case.
For equilibrium, Sum of forces = 0 AND the sum of torques = 0 Everything looked OK until the last rock. In terms of forces, he has all the rocks weights aligned along a single axis, this eliminates torques from the normal force which is the reaction force to the rock weights.
If you then estimate where the center of mass is for each rock, he then is balancing the torques due to the center of mass and gravity by alternating the sides the CM are on. It’s the last rock I question. To have that rock balance on a point like that is not impossible, but is an example of a highly unstable equilibrium situation. I would bet $10 he “pretreated” the rock below the last one and drilled out a indentation to set the point in. But then I’m just a grumpy old white guy, so I’m probably wrong.
Good thing he wore the right shirt. Right?
The guy’s a plumber by trade. He does the balancing act as a diversion, and is very good at it.
Of what use is ballet? It’s beautiful.
A trick in my opinion. The center of gravity of the large rock would seem to be left of the center axis of the balance line, or maybe that’s the illusion. Adding to Physics guy, pre-treatment must also include finding a rock where the center of gravity is a lot lower than you think from that angle..
The rock fell forward, which wasn’t what you would expect from looking at Grabby’s pile, but we can only see 2 dimensions in the video.
I’m with Doom. A nitwit standing in a river playing with rocks isn’t Leonardo or Rembrandt.
At least his art supplies don’t cost very much! Better to have a hippie balancing rocks in a river than an arrogant asshole like Christo putting crap over it.