Installation artist Chris Burden’s Metropolis II will soon go on display at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. A work four years in the making, its a noisy and quite beautiful contraption. I really like the tidy order in which the flow of traffic moves. If only we could get a little more of that in our day to day commutes. Note the massive size of the whole thing around 4:30.
In the video Burden remarks how he feels we’re on the verge of a change in the way in which we get around. “Its a little bit like making a model of New York City at the turn of the last century and you’re modeling horse buggies everywhere and then the automobile is about to arrive. Something else is about to arrive.” Here’s to cars continuing to run free, till I croak off at least. I also remember that the last thing that was going to drastically change transportation as we know it was this.
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