DNA Sculpture Constructed with Shopping Carts

Roland Piquepaille writes "The U.K. supermarket chain Somerfield decided last year to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the discovery of DNA in an original way. It commissioned British artist Abigail Fallis to create a sculpture of a DNA double helix made of shopping carts and to display it during the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign of 2004. The sculpture, named DNA DL90, is 31 feet high and weighs more than three tons. It is on display since April 2004 at "Sculpture at Goodwood," the 21st century British sculpture park in Surrey. This photo gallery contains several pictures of this original artwork."

Comments

Does it Roll?

[buzzoff]

That would be awesome!

Re:Does it Roll?

[Dros68]

It rolls, but it squeaks and the front left nucleotide-cart gets stuck at a right angle.

let's get this out of the way:

[Guano_Jim]

Yes, obviously they built their webserver out of shopping carts too.

/.ing a charity.

[Valar]

I believe this might be an all time low.

Great opportunity.....

[MrIrwin]

.....just think how many coin refunds you could get taking that lot back to the trolly park.

And who said modern art isn't worth a dime!

Re:Great opportunity.....

[_xeno_]

Man, I wish they did that in the US.

Instead (oof) they just added (ugh) this stupid (c'mon, move) locking wheel (dammit) to the cart. If it goes out of range (ow!) of the store (umph) then the wheel locks.

Of course, sometimes the wheel locks inside the store too., and sometimes it just breaks and locks permentantly...

But at the very least (kick) no one is would ever try and (let go of the wheel already!) steal one...

BAH

[Giant Ape Skeleton]

I am constructing a shopping cart from polymerized strands of my own DNA!

Re:BAH

[NanoGator]

"I am constructing a shopping cart from polymerized strands of my own DNA!"

Yeah, I'm unemployed too.

How not to get caught stealing shopping carts

[Psymunn]

Man, the safeway down the road must be really pissed...

We have one of these where I live...

[Giant Panda]

There's this big ravine near where I live that the kiddies like to push shopping carts into. Looks a lot like this "sculpture" except ours is a longer sequence...

Wow

[TheDarkener]

This is truly amazing. Maybe I should submit my project to Slashdot - a giant diagram of the Linux filesystem... made out of old mayonaise bottles and ketchup packets.

Re:Wow

[drinkypoo]

I don't know which is more disturbing, the thought of how plausible it is that some geek somewhere is reading this same comment and instead of snickering, shouting "BRILLIANT!" or how equally plausible it is that someone, somewhere, has already done this.

wonky wheels

[fraccy]

That reminds me of the scene following an incident in which I was involved. The police report identified that particular factors contributing to the accident included too much coffee, a trolley with a wonky wheel, and a special offer on pork pies at the far end of a crowded aisle..

Shopping

[scrotch]

Because shopping is programmed into core biology...

Gee, that's really attractive

[jlowery]

What's next, a giant buckminsterfullerene of laundry baskets?

Re:Gee, that's really attractive

[AndroidCat]

CarHenge just seems so ugly and useless now. Oh wait, that's because it is!

Homeless Erectus

[HBI]

Homeless Erectus makes me think of waking up on a sewer grate with a boner.

There's one problem.

[jd]

Red-Red-Red codes to only a single protein, as does Blue-Blue-Blue. Worse, I'm not sure Blue is the valid opposite base-pair to Red. This renders the whole structure genetically useless!

Re:"ART! ART! ART!"

[Anonymous Coward]

Does this piece challenge our materialistic preconceptions of the world of science and commerce and force us to re-evaluate our relationship with that which forms the core of our self-determined being?

Yes.