{"id":2495,"date":"2008-12-07T14:45:01","date_gmt":"2008-12-07T21:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/?p=2495"},"modified":"2008-12-07T14:45:01","modified_gmt":"2008-12-07T21:45:01","slug":"area-2881","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2008\/12\/07\/area-2881\/","title":{"rendered":"Area 2881"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlpisaturo.com\">Carl Pistaturo<\/a>&#8216;s machine art for the first time last night. I was astounded. If you ever get the chance, see these &#8220;amusements&#8221;!<\/p>\n<p>I had caught his listing on The <a href=\"http:\/\/laughingsquid.com\/squidlist\/events\/index.php?com=detail&amp;eID=180834&amp;year=2008&amp;month=12\">Squidlist<\/a>. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p> \u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2496 alignright\" title=\"carl\" src=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/carl-157x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"157\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/carl-157x200.jpg 157w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/carl-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/carl.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 157px) 100vw, 157px\" \/><strong>Rotating Amusement Devices of Carl Pisaturo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Experience and celebrate mechatronic devices with inverse commercial potential. These are highly artgineered Rotating Amusement Devices &#8211; smooth motions, illusion, spatial-spirographic streaks.<\/p>\n<p> \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>10+ machines will be on display and demo&#8217;d throughout the evening, including the first public demos of RING WAVE, a new type of high speed light streaker. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p> \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>in association with MAPP, the Mission Arts Performance Project.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ee; text-decoration: underline;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I note that the performances had an element of danger even more extreme than an SRL show. His amazing &#8220;rotating amusements&#8221; have spinning parts that weigh a pound or more and appear to spin at upwards of 1,000 RPM. If they weren&#8217;t perfectly weighted, they could fly apart and&#8230; well, hence the danger. As seen, they did not appear dangerous, but wonderfully elegant. Pure applied engineering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw Carl Pistaturo&#8216;s machine art for the first time last night. I was astounded. If you ever get the chance, see these &#8220;amusements&#8221;! I had caught his listing on The Squidlist. \u00a0 \u00a0 Rotating Amusement Devices of Carl Pisaturo Experience and celebrate mechatronic devices with inverse commercial potential. These are highly artgineered Rotating Amusement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}