Solar-Powered Machine Creates Rainbows From Recycled Rainwater
by Bridgette Meinhold, 12/20/10
filed under: Art
Rainbows are fleeting and beautiful illusions - a gift from nature to us. Certain climatic conditions are generally required in the creation of a rainbow -- unless you're artist Michael Jones McKean, who has found a way to shoot rainbows across the sky at will. He's been practicing in parking lots and over his studio building for years now in preparation for a larger installation at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, Nebraska. Next June McKean will produce a rainbow twice a day for 15 minutes using reclaimed rainwater and sunlight.
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What does this mean?
Whoah! Can he make a double rainbow?!
Get two of these babies and turn them on side by side and prepare for the most intense OMG experience of your life.
Disgusting!
Of all the talented people with brilliant ideas in need of investment and/or promotion, we now are in need of fake rainbows??? Its not even funny, this is a disgrace.
It is good.
Those rainbows serve to remind one of the beautiful creation
seen in nature, and they are displayed using both power and
water supplied through natural sources rather than expending
natural resources. Rainbows are remarkable when understood
and when unexplained.
It’s actually another good idea, just like its been perfecly artistic when human imitiates nature’s beaties throughout history..
Especially in a time urban life transforms itself into nightmares because of the various pollution types, these impressive visual ornaments make urban much bearable, even beautiful!
In conclusion, bravo McKean and others helping him…
Do this on top of a tall building and you will have a circular rainbow!
This brilliant! A pot of gold at every rainbow! This man made the proverbial money tree!
Pot o’ Gold – 9yrs of NRE – pumping costs = PROFIT!!!!!
The Rainbow Machine…
Oh. My. God. It’s a rainbow machine! And it’s making real rainbows! Artist Michael Jones McKean creates real rainbows – with his awesome solar-powered machine using recycled rainwater! Certain climatic conditions are generally required in the creatio…