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[peter fels]

Hilarious!
Betcha it would have gotten many giggles out of calder himself.

On Aug 4, 2011, at 5:40 PM, Mike Spencer wrote:

> 
>> The gimmick of adding a practical application to a bit of art has
>> kept food on my table for many years.
> 
> Dang!  I missed the chance for an Art Prank.
> 
> I've walked under or around this:
> 
>    http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/bigsail/bigsail.html
> 
> a hundred times during the decade I was making regular visits to Boston.
> 
> I could have surreptitiously epoxied one them CocaCola bottle openers
> -- the chromed kind that used to be screwed to the wall next to the
> pop cooler at the general store -- onto it in an inconspicuous place
> and at a suitable height.  Then I could have circulated the rumor on
> the net that Calder had been obliged to turn it into a bottle opener
> in order to get MIT to buy it.
> 
> People would have actually travelled to Cambridge to see it it was
> true!
> 
> Dang!
> 
> 
> - Mike
> 
> -- 
> Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada       .~. 
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