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Re: Outdoor Exhibits
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Charlie Carlson <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 30 Mar 2010 09:12:03 -0700
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Hi Dennis,
Tom Tits has a wonderfully adventuresome large lens which allows one to focus sunlight and char a piece of wood.  It's safely displayed over a shallow pond, but very cool.
C
On Mar 30, 2010, at 6:51 AM, Dennis Bateman wrote:

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> Everyone -
> 
> Let me focus my original question a bit - 
> 
> We've got a $12,000 donation and a nice patch of flat lawn (triangular, about 40 feet long and 15 feet wide at the widest end).  
> 
> We are doing a nice native-planting/river landscaping thing on another piece of riverfront property, so no need to rivers stuff on this patch.  I was thinking more along the lines of echo tubes, etc. - solid, few moving parts, last 5-10 years.  Too cloudy for fun Clore Garden solar stuff, and water/plumbing is too expensive for this area. (Could I make this more impossible?!)
> 
> My own list, and a summary of this discussion (minus the water ones) runs to:
> 
> Giant 'magnifying glasses' with different filters and lenses
> A field of 6-foot turbines
> Drums
> Pan Pipes
> Echo Tubes
> Sound Delay Tubes
> Heat Tunnels - one black, one white
> Element Stones (Flush-to-ground 'headstones', each with an element on it)
> Torsion Wave
> Lever Lifter
> Human Sun-Dial
> Hedge Maze
> Rock Maze
> Optical Illusion Sculptures
> Sand
> Rock Maze
> 
> - Dennis Bateman
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