Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2021/08/17/the-singing-ringing-tree-a-haunting-sound-sculpture-looming-over-lancashire.html
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Build an altar-like that around here and you’d just summon an EF5.
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The opening shot of the first video had a definite Miyazaki vibe to it. Now I want to visit Burnley.
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I want to see the car that that’s a hood ornament for.
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The Singing Ringing Tree was also the name of an East German film that was imported by the BBC in the 60s and apparently had a pretty lasting psychic impact on UK youth at the time
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Glad it’s not in a residential area.
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There are times I want to build a really big wind chime, like 8’ or more (and obviously a diameter to relative scale).
Then I think how irritating it might be…just because we can doesn’t mean we should.
-although that’s exactly how I picture any future planet we might explore will sound.
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No, you really don’t.
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Yeah I thought it looked like a tornado too… kinda sounds like one.
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Sounds like a Hafler Trio project
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No. You don’t.
ETA I see @evilkolbot beat me to it, and with citations.
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So, there is what I think is nearly an identical statue to this one near me. So much so that when I saw the picture I assumed it was the one I know.
OK, yeah, it’s modelled after the one from the UK
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Also, I had always assumed it was a statue of a tornado, even though we don’t get too many in Austin.
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Just me? Ok, then.
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“Something, something … four thousand holes in Burnley, Lancashire … something, something…”
I’m probably not remembering this right.
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Blackburn. Small tip, don’t make that mistake in Lancashire, there’s, uh, rivalry.
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Yeah, I know, I used to live near there. Luckily I’m making that mistake from the relative safety of Canada.
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Got to go and visit this. It’s really not that far from me.
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really surprised something like this hasn’t been made for burning man. it would be perfect out on the black rock desert, too.
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