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March 2012

Techno-grandiosity meets exercise in futility: an art installation, so-called, by Michael Heizer titled Levitated Mass.

Kunstler's eyesore of the month March 2012

Techno-grandiosity meets exercise in futility: an art installation, so-called, by Michael Heizer titled Levitated Mass. This stunt involves moving a 340 ton boulder from the edge of the desert at Riverside, California, to a display site at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art by means of a gigantic steel conveyor vehicle.

kunstler's eyesore of the Month March 2012

The art object in its natural state.

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Preparing for the journey….

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Rollin’, rollin’ rollin’…

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The Route of Levitated Mass

To read more about this stupid fucking waste of effort and money 
visit the official website for this stunt, and also the website of its patron, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).

Shout out of thanks to Christopher Tallman for nominating this humdinger.

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James Howard Kunstler is the author of many books including (non-fiction) The Geography of Nowhere, The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition, Home from Nowhere, The Long Emergency and the four-book series of World Made By Hand novels, set in a post economic crash American future. His most recent book is Living in the Long Emergency; Global Crisis, the Failure of the Futurists, and the Early Adapters Who Are Showing Us the Way Forward. Jim lives on a homestead in Washington County, New. York, where he tends his garden and communes with his chickens.

2 Responses to “March 2012”

  1. b8bpattson June 26, 2014 at 12:30 pm #

    This art installation reminds me one I read about, where a Texas oil drilling magnate sponsored drilling a hole into the earth one mile deep, (using his equipment) with a corresponding alloy rod one mile in length suspended inside it. You could see the tip of the rod in the cap of the hole. Just sooo meaningful, don’t you think?

  2. chiefsecond April 19, 2020 at 11:26 am #

    Techno-grandiosity meets exercise in futility: an art installation, so-called, by Michael Heizer titled Levitated Mass. This stunt involves moving a 340 run 3 ton boulder from the edge of the desert at Riverside, California, to a display site at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art by means of a gigantic steel conveyor vehicle.