This urban sculpture was made with thousands of standard shopping carts in a Costco parking lot by following the natural curve in a lineup of the carts. What they are protecting, we’re not exactly sure, but this might be the equivalent of the crop circle in an urban environment.
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I would say that is a little over 200 shopping carts. That is nowhere near “thousands”.
Thats the first thing I had to go check if someone commented on.
Same reason I clicked.
That’s awesome.
Now all we need a figure 8 version! Or a a Möbius strip.
Ha ha, that’s the place right by my apartment, and regrettably I didn’t see it. A work of UCSB pride.
Why I clicked…Thousands?!?
But hey- it is Jonah folks…
Not art, just frat boy vandalism without regard to the time and effort required of the employee who would be tasked to unjam this mess.
You are assuming the artist left it there for others to tidy up but you have no basis for that assumption.
I laughed when I saw this. I’m less than a mile from this spot, yet almost 5 years ahead…
Those are untold millions of carts.
This picture is so old.
“A circle made by following the natural curve in a line of shopping carts. Costco parking lot Goleta, CA. 6:00 am May 5, 2004.”
Looks to me like that would be a compusa parking lot and not a costco but hey who “counting” anyways
They should have put a motor on one of those carts. It would be interesting to see this pushing itself in circles. Of course a few bad wheels would make the whole circle move in random directions.
Why would a chain of carts have any sort of natural curve?
That’s not a costco, it’s a CompUSA. Sorry
@PJ – because when you have the carts stacked, they can only be a little bit off straight before it’s mechanically stopped by the cart in front. When you have a bunch all in a curve like this, there’s a tightest curvature. That’s what is being called the natural curve.
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Its look interesting…circular shape mat resolve parking issue as well.
Its look interesting…circular shape mat resolve parking issue as well.
The artist’s name is Robert Wechsler: http://www.robertwechsler.com/
Here’s a similar one done by a guy named Milton F Stevenson V http://miltonstevenson.com/?p=103
Counting about a third of the circle I get 60 shopping carts. So maybe a few hundred total, certainly not “thousands”
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