these won’t travel quickly but it’ll still trigger a cascade of sensations wearing a VR headset with a world designed by @b_watanabe while rumbling across the track @cannonballarts. Oh and did I mention - besides an elaborate indoor park and pond & floating sculpture - there will also be an artsy mechanical bull ride, skateboarding, roller skating, live figure drawing and live canoe & totem carving also at Cannonball? Hyped yet?
imagining a VR headset on my face while riding in the back of the go cart I rebuilt for large adults to ride in @cannonballarts
getting down to the nitty gritty details. Metal rails. Got new tires on a car that had the wrong size. I built the new car bodies with tight clearance around the wheel wells to maximize interior space, and keep the weight as close to the ground as possible. One car’s tires had been replaced with a large size. Which I discovered later may have been the result of trying to get the tire to clear a massive (and redundant) nut on a steering arm. Soon as we got the new smaller tires on, this nut was rubbing on the inside of the tire. Took some elbow grease and an extremely large crescent to get it off. Problem solved, without creating another one down the road.
rolling off the assembly line @cannonballarts
sides, fronts, hoods & windshields assembled, time for final painting. Gloss enamel coming up
just about to mount the front & hood for these @cannonballarts
assembling these crazy heavy side panels
still assembling floors & benches before getting the sides, fronts & backs on @cannonballarts … just for a sense of scale here - those are not grey cinder block walls in the background, those are 4x8 sheets of drywall. The place is cavernously massive. This is the former downtown Seattle #BedBathAndBeyond now being repurposed for the arts. I can’t really imagine a better recycling project
working back on site - again with the added bonus of seeing @cannonballarts evolve - all parts primed, just assembling front floors & seats to start
close to priming here. Mud the cut ends after laminating 2 plies of 3/4” cabinet grade plywood. These things are beefy!! Built a couple small church pews for each car. I’ll do final painting after assembling on site. Next step - tons of priming, then hauling all the parts back downtown to assemble @cannonballarts
