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Burning Man 2018: Ingels & Lange huge shiny orb fascinates party-goers
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This year’s Burning Man theme was I-Robot, and two
Danish designers caught people’s attention with a 100-foot tall
orb on a mast. -
“The ORB” raised $34,300 on indiegogo to get it to the
Nevada desert festival. -
Some people think it’s a disco-ball, some a planet, but
it’s definitely become the crowd favourite at the infamous
festival.
People at Burning Man festival in Nevada, which finishes on
Monday, are transfixed by this 100-foot high orb on a mast.
It has an 84-foot diameter and stands an impressive 100 feet
tall, towering above the dusty venue:
Some people at the festival, running from 25 August to September
1, think the shiny sphere is a mini-planet, and
creators Bjarke Ingels and Jakob Lange from Denmark
wrote that it’s actually a 1/500,000 scale model
of earth.
Before the festival the designers shared this virtual rendering
of the orb on
their indiegogo page:
They wanted to raise $50,000 to get the orb to Burning Man. In
the end they got $34,300, which was enough.
This is what the finished product looked like:
Designer Lange posted the erected artwork on his Instagram:
But some are content with it being a huge disco-ball for party
goers:
also there’s going to be a 30-TON DISCO BALL at burning man ?? you know where i’ll be
— outdated☆ (@bridgetstfu) August 26, 2018
“The ORB is a tribute to mother earth & human
expression – designed to easily inflate and deflate,”
said Lange.
This year’s theme was I-Robot.
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