Just when I thought that reusing my old socks to make sock monkeys was the next best thing, someone goes out and creates a rainbow! Yes, some might call this brilliance but I call it – OHMYGOSHBRILLIANCE! Oh. My. Gosh. Brilliance – for lack of better description. This artist is amazing – and though I love sock monkeys and their cute little bobble heads and quirky little bodies I LOVE rainbows and for someone to recreate one?
Sure we all sit around and daydream our next great idea. And just when I was certain that I had to be the biggest dreamer ever (‘pull your head out of clouds Lynn’ has been duly noted several times in my life), Michael Jones McKean has spent the last eight years perfecting his make-at-home rainbow technique.
I am so flabbergasted about it (that’s such a fun word isn’t it? Flabbergasted…say that three times fast! Flabbergasted Flabbergasted Flabbergasted. Another good one? Platypus. I don’t know – moving along). By reusing collected rainwater, McKean can create a magnificent homemade rainbow – a REAL rainbow stretching up into the sky. Impressed yet?
I am!
“This summer the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, Nebraska — where McKean was once a fellow — will have an installation of his nature-harnessing work in which visitors will be able to walk through two, roughly fifteen minute-long rainbows each day. The arcs may be as long as 200 feet across and 200 feet high, and depending on outdoor conditions, they may be visible up to 1,000 feet away” (Discovery News).
So just when you thought that you had to wait until Mother Nature blessed you with this truly astonishing beauty in the sky….you can now have “Rainbow on demand” which is way better for you than Cable on demand and quite possibly even cheaper. But that’s an entirely different post all together. For more information on this cool story and to find out how you can reconnect with nature in one of the most extraordinary displays of beauty – head on over to Discovery to read more on “The Rainbow Project.”
Image Credit:
http://news.discovery.com/tech/artist-recycles-rainbows.html
