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To: Max Heim <mvheim@studiolimage.com>, MG List <mgs@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: 3-story tall filing cabinet with graphic LCD placards housing 1974 MG Midget!
From: Dan DiBiase <d_dibiase@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 14:33:27 -0700 (PDT)
Oh, this is suppsed to be ART! Now it's clear....


> By the way, I have heard of this art project. The
> LCD screens are 
> apparently a new embellishment. They may help make a
> little more sense 
> out of what was almost purely conceptual (whether
> you think any of it 
> makes any sense is up to you).
> 
> This project consists of what it says -- a
> three-story tall filing 
> cabinet. In the file drawers are the remnants of a
> shredded 1974 Midget. 
> The pieces are sorted and filed by weight.
> Apparently the LCD screens are 
> intended to be attached to the fronts of the drawers
> to show pictures of 
> the pieces, which will flash by in 1/3 second,
> controlled by computer.
> 
> I don't know if the artist deliberately chose a
> Midget for personal or 
> symbolic reasons, or it was just an old wreck handy
> to be shredded. Maybe 
> it was his driver and Lucas let him down one too
> many times.
> 
> Curiously, I know of one other piece of "small
> roadster art". In San 
> Francisco on 3rd Street across from Moscone Center
> there is a multistory 
> parking garage. On the outside of the top floor is
> the body of a Fiat 850 
> Spider, cut into even size squares, and laid out
> flat against the 
> vertical surface of the building, looking like a
> cut-out paper model 
> waiting to be folded.
> 
> 
> --
> 
> Max Heim
> '66 MGB GHN3L76149
> If you're near Mountain View, CA,
> it's the red one with the silver bootlid.
> 


=====
Dan D
Dayton, NJ
76 MGB Tourer

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