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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 -
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> Let me focus my original question a bit -
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> 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?!)
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> My own list, and a summary of this discussion (minus the water ones) runs to:
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> 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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