J U N E 2 0 0 9 I S S U E The Big Picture
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Photo by Will Kirk |
Well, make that pushing— the result of an early
disaster for the handful of students who created the
first-ever Johns Hopkins entry in the American Visionary
Art Museum's Kinetic Sculpture Race. The annual event
requires teams to build a human-powered work of art that
can manage a 15-mile trek over land and sea. Twitter Jay
and the Recyclists featured two bicycles (for power),
recycled materials, and an LED screen for displaying
"tweets"— or text messages— from spectators.
The bikes' back wheels bent early, but the determined
teammates literally pushed on and finished the race. They
even won the "Golden Dinosaur," awarded to the most
spectacular failure. "Needless to say, we had a great time,
all things considered," says Nora Krinitsky, the history
and museum studies major who kicked off the project a year
earlier. Here, undergraduates Stephanie Smith and Tabor
Barranti navigate the water course through Baltimore's
Inner Harbor. |
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