My plan to turn the Brunswick Secondary College maintenance shed into a GIANT smoke ring generator has failed – not the slightest hint of a smoke ring formed at the 2m diameter hole we (the year 7’s and myself) constructed at the end of the 5m long shed.
And so, despite my best intentions, the Artist in Residency project looked likely to end, ‘not with a bang but a whimper’.
This just aint going to cut it – my ego desperately needs the admiration of a half dozen year 7s.
Enter Plan B.
A ply and pine contraption I whipped up over the break. This will be disassembled then reassembled by the year 7s.
But, before that happens I thought I’d better test it.
Filling the tub…
Firing…
and you can just make out the resulting smoke ring before it slams into the wall.
Yeah, redemption is imminent.
2 responses to “Plan B”
Encouraging year 7s to smoke. Irresponsible (savvy?) artist taking the system for a ride …? ( http://skellis.posterous.com/savvy-artists-taking-the-system-for-a-ride )
Tobacco sponsorship, now there’s an idea.
But actually, I resent the implication that I’m part of your cleverly orchestrated scam to embezzle money from hard working Australians. Honestly, I’m still reeling from the diabolical nature of your scheming. You basically got free money from Arts Organisations! – all you had to do was develop a work, write an application, produce and perform the work, pay a dozen or so people, and acquit the budget – you really are scum and nothing like me, besides I work with kids and I’m not a pedo so that makes me inherently better than you!
(the politically correct language for this project is ‘vortex cannon’)