Comments on: Massive packing-tape spider-web http://boingboing.net/2010/06/07/massive-packing-tape.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:06:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Clifton http://boingboing.net/2010/06/07/massive-packing-tape.html#comment-805656 Clifton Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-805656 That is extremely cool. That is extremely cool.

]]> By: IamInnocent http://boingboing.net/2010/06/07/massive-packing-tape.html#comment-805669 IamInnocent Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-805669 Now <i>that</i> is brilliant engineering <B>and</B> art. Wish I'd been there for the dance. Now that is brilliant engineering and art.
Wish I’d been there for the dance.

]]> By: Clemoh http://boingboing.net/2010/06/07/massive-packing-tape.html#comment-805670 Clemoh Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-805670 Of course, this is technically packing -film-, not tape. Of course, this is technically packing -film-, not tape.

]]> By: IWood http://boingboing.net/2010/06/07/massive-packing-tape.html#comment-805676 IWood Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-805676 I'm watching the Shelob scene in <i>Return of the King</i> right now. So...um. Webby synchronicity, or something? Yeah. My cat wants no part of what I am thinking now. I’m watching the Shelob scene in Return of the King right now.

So…um. Webby synchronicity, or something? Yeah.

My cat wants no part of what I am thinking now.

]]> By: igzabier http://boingboing.net/2010/06/07/massive-packing-tape.html#comment-805961 igzabier Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-805961 get your own house web!! this artist makes climbing webs for home, website photos of it aren't great, but I've tried, more awesome than this as you can play and have your own, crocheted hammock style.: http://www.evelynroth.com/fa_crawlingwebs_slide0.html get your own house web!! this artist makes climbing webs for home, website photos of it aren’t great, but I’ve tried, more awesome than this as you can play and have your own, crocheted hammock style.:
http://www.evelynroth.com/fa_crawlingwebs_slide0.html

]]> By: deckard68 http://boingboing.net/2010/06/07/massive-packing-tape.html#comment-805976 deckard68 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-805976 That amount of tape must stink to high heaven (the sticky part of it releasing fumes). Looks nice though. That amount of tape must stink to high heaven (the sticky part of it releasing fumes). Looks nice though.

]]> By: Pantograph http://boingboing.net/2010/06/07/massive-packing-tape.html#comment-805734 Pantograph Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-805734 Oh good. If it was packing tape I'd hate to be the one to clean it up. Oh good. If it was packing tape I’d hate to be the one to clean it up.

]]> By: Kimmo http://boingboing.net/2010/06/07/massive-packing-tape.html#comment-805735 Kimmo Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-805735 Hey Cory, you meant averse. http://www.google.com/search?q=averse+adverse Hey Cory, you meant averse.

http://www.google.com/search?q=averse+adverse

]]> By: lasttide http://boingboing.net/2010/06/07/massive-packing-tape.html#comment-805743 lasttide Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-805743 Are you sure they weren't trying to recreate the Widow of the Web set from Krull? Are you sure they weren’t trying to recreate the Widow of the Web set from Krull?

]]> By: Steak http://boingboing.net/2010/06/07/massive-packing-tape.html#comment-805745 Steak Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-805745 Creating this can't have been easy. Technical considerations aside, at every stage the artists would have been a moment of lapsed concentration away from imagining the spider that might inhabit such a structure. That's got to mess with even the most staunch non-arachnophobe. Creating this can’t have been easy. Technical considerations aside, at every stage the artists would have been a moment of lapsed concentration away from imagining the spider that might inhabit such a structure. That’s got to mess with even the most staunch non-arachnophobe.

]]> By: GraemeM http://boingboing.net/2010/06/07/massive-packing-tape.html#comment-806295 GraemeM Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-806295 I'm frightened just thinking of the size of the spider that would live in there, Harry Potter and Aragon. I’m frightened just thinking of the size of the spider that would live in there, Harry Potter and Aragon.

]]> By: dculberson http://boingboing.net/2010/06/07/massive-packing-tape.html#comment-805813 dculberson Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-805813 I think it's actually tape. It looks to me like they wrapped the columns in film and the webs are tape. Their web site says "530 rolls of transparent self adhesive tape." The shipping film isn't adhesive. (it's mildly cohesive through static and friction, but not adhesive at all.) So yeah, I would hate to be part of the clean-up. I think it’s actually tape. It looks to me like they wrapped the columns in film and the webs are tape. Their web site says “530 rolls of transparent self adhesive tape.” The shipping film isn’t adhesive. (it’s mildly cohesive through static and friction, but not adhesive at all.)

So yeah, I would hate to be part of the clean-up.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/06/07/massive-packing-tape.html#comment-805843 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-805843 Now one of them needs to dress like a fly and jump in it. Now one of them needs to dress like a fly and jump in it.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/06/07/massive-packing-tape.html#comment-805849 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-805849 Needs disclaimer: no artists were suffocated in the making of this art Needs disclaimer: no artists were suffocated in the making of this art

]]> By: McMe http://boingboing.net/2010/06/07/massive-packing-tape.html#comment-805850 McMe Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-805850 Hopefully a piece on the BP spill can be run today and we can all nash our teeth about the bad oil companies while we continue to squander our natural resources and fiddle while it all burns. I'm mean really an ad? Time we learned a bit of self control. Hopefully a piece on the BP spill can be run today and we can all nash our teeth about the bad oil companies while we continue to squander our natural resources and fiddle while it all burns.
I’m mean really an ad? Time we learned a bit of self control.

]]> By: Cin http://boingboing.net/2010/06/07/massive-packing-tape.html#comment-805872 Cin Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-805872 Read the article. It's adhesive tape, not film. Read the article. It’s adhesive tape, not film.

]]> By: dagfooyo http://boingboing.net/2010/06/07/massive-packing-tape.html#comment-805877 dagfooyo Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-805877 It's beautiful. But oh MAAAN - have any of you unrolled large quantities of packing tape at once? I have. I can only imagine that the adhesive fumes in that room must be overpowering -- I'm surprised people don't pass out. It’s beautiful. But oh MAAAN – have any of you unrolled large quantities of packing tape at once? I have. I can only imagine that the adhesive fumes in that room must be overpowering — I’m surprised people don’t pass out.

]]> By: Art http://boingboing.net/2010/06/07/massive-packing-tape.html#comment-805884 Art Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-805884 Whew!!!! Splendid job :) Whew!!!!

Splendid job :)

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/06/07/massive-packing-tape.html#comment-806143 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-806143 It looks something like the museum scene from Alone in the Dark (2008) video game. It looks something like the museum scene from Alone in the Dark (2008) video game.

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