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Baltimore Kinetic Sculpture Race Photos

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the sea-worthy-and-silly dept.

YetAnotherName writes "Tom Jones again has coverage and plenty of eye candy of the Baltimore Kinetic Sculpture Race, where engineering prowess converges with a sense of humor. Check out what bizarre contraptions for 2005 won awards for Best Engineering, Best Art, Best Bribes, etc., and if anyone actually finished the race."

8 of 51 comments (clear)

  1. Re:WARNING: NOT SAFE FOR WORK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    It's the top half of a damn mannequin.

    You've seen worse at department stores.

  2. Re:Save those pictures! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Not to mention the entire Kafka metamorphosis reference....

  3. Coral cache by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative


    sites starting to creak under the slashdot pressure (with all those pics) so here is the coral cache of the article

  4. Another Kinetic Sculpture Race by kc01 · · Score: 3, Informative
    I became familiar with the race from Arcata to Ferndale, California when I went to school there.

    http://kineticsculpturerace.org/

    I'm not certain how long Baltimore's been doing it, but the Arcata race has been going for 37 years.

    1. Re:Another Kinetic Sculpture Race by ShaggusMacHaggis · · Score: 2, Informative

      the baltimore race is the east coast qualifier for that california race...

    2. Re:Another Kinetic Sculpture Race by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

      I grew up in Arcata in the '70s and '80s. The Kinetic Sculpture Race was conceived by and started by Hobart Brown, an artist from the area. The Arcata to Ferndale race was the first of the Kinetic Sculpture Races. I haven't looked through their website in a while, but I believe there is a section that describes the origins of this really cool event.

  5. Original Kinetic Scupture Race by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    The original, which is still running and has the wackiest entries, is at Arcata, California, Humboldt County.

  6. Re:Save those pictures! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Ironically, the song is about a cockroach not being able to walk because it's missing a leg.


    I've certainly heard other explanations as to why the cockroach can't travel.