the inaugural balls
There is no good reason for the name, or only silly reasons. But you need a name for the big event, which is like a barn raising, and for the big “things” being built, and for the big party afterwards!
And so, there are two of them, and “gonads of the rich and famous” (a superb name) was taken, and this was the year of an auspicious presidential inauguration in the USA, with attendant dancing balls much written about at the time, hence - the inaugural balls!
Also, this politically-correct world needs more irreverence, much more...
why “inaugural balls”?
Two large snub dodecahedra, one left handed and one right handed, made out of steel tubing and suspended “floating” in two trees, somewhere in central New Jersey.
what?
Three years after building my first giant geodesic sphere (The Assembly of Geod), September 12, 2009 saw another team poring over three hundred cut, squished, drilled, angled, and painted sections of steel tube - 3/4 inch EMT conduit for the cognoscenti. This time, all three hundred were the same length, about 30 inches long, with strut length 28.5 inches “hole-to-hole”. (Four equal sections cut from original ten-foot lengths, and drilled 3/4 inch in from each end.)
This gives a diameter for each assembled structure of just over ten feet. But this time it was double trouble. 150 identical sections painted gold, and 150 identical sections painted bronze. The idea was to assemble one left handed structure and one right handed structure, see if we could, and then see if anyone else could tell the difference...
