Big Lava Lamp
Correspondent:: König Prüß, GfbAEV
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 11:01:39 GMT
--------
washingtonpost.com
Big Lava Lamp Causes Big Headaches
The Associated Press
Wednesday, February 9, 2005; 9:31 PM
SOAP LAKE, Wash. - If lava lamps required this much work of stoned kids
in the 1960s, they'd never have become so popular.
A 50-foot-tall lamp that one day is expected to be a tourist attraction
arrived in this central Washington community this week in pieces on
four flatbed trailers. Putting the pieces together will be
"much more complicated" than Brent Blake, the project's
coordinator, thought it would be.
"It's just unbelievable - endless pieces of structural steel and fiberglass.
We need a genius engineer to put this all together again,"
Blake told The Wenatchee World.
The lamp, billed as the world's largest functional lava lamp,
was built by an Illinois company and used as an advertising
gimmick in New York City's Times Square by Target Corp.
The company gave it to Soap Lake, which hoped to use it
to revive a tourist industry that once thrived on the lake's
mineral water and mud.
The lamp's pieces - some of which appear to be damaged -
include about 30,000 pounds of metal, plastic, fiberglass and lights.
For now they're being stored at a warehouse in nearby Ephrata.
When finished, the lamp should simulate gently undulating globs
of glowing lava.
"When you get a 50-foot-tall lava lamp, you end up with a whole
lot of stuff," said Don Johnstad, project member and co-owner
of Healing Water Spa.
Blake had hoped the lamp could be erected by this spring,
but now questions remain about whether it can be finished this year.
Thousands of dollars will have to be raised to assemble it.
© 2005 The Associated Press
Correspondent:: HellPope Huey
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 17:17:43 GMT
--------
In article
,
König Prüß, GfbAEV wrote:
> washingtonpost.com
> Big Lava Lamp Causes Big Headaches
> SOAP LAKE, Wash. - If lava lamps required this much work of stoned kids
> in the 1960s, they'd never have become so popular.
> A 50-foot-tall lamp that one day is expected to be a tourist attraction
> arrived in this central Washington community this week in pieces on
> four flatbed trailers. Putting the pieces together will be
> "much more complicated" than Brent Blake, the project's
> coordinator, thought it would be.
So will there be a Live Nude Girl swimming in it? That'd really draw
the rubes. You can put tits on almost anything but Pope Black and draw a
crowd.
--
HellPope Huey
Doin' the Lindy to Hendrix
Surprised lady in restroom:
"Hey, this is for ladies only!"
Peter O'Toole, inebriated:
"And so is *this*, ma'am,
but every now and again
I have to run a little water through it."
~ "My Favorite Year"
I can't put a sentence together -
thank God I can take my clothes off.
~ Sharon Stone