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       Rock Balance
   DIR By: Mac
       Date: January 5, 2013, 5:16 pm
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       [glow=yellow,2,300]A Very, Very, Very Delicate Balance[/glow]
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       > These rocks, says the artist, are not glued, not Velcroed.
       This is not a trick. Go ahead and click through our glossary of
       photographs. There are big rocks pirouetting on little ones,
       little ones dangling on top of big ones, pebbles tightly clumped
       and suspended in air ...
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       > The artist who did this, Michael Grab, is a balancer of rocks.
       In an interview on Compliment Vices, he describes what happens
       when he builds these sculptures in front of live audiences,
       which, apparently, he's done a few times — in Costa Rica, in
       Italy. Once, at the Boulder Creek Path Festival in Boulder,
       Colo., a guy came up to him and said, "My brother absolutely
       does not believe these are balanced like this. He thinks there's
       bars or glue." He demanded proof that these sculptures were for
       real.
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       > "Everybody's watching, everybody heard the whole exchange,"
       Michael says. "So I just go up and tap one in the middle and it
       just collapses. And everyone is like [gasp!] So I just like, get
       down, start making it again. Make it a tiny bit different."
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       > But how? How does he do it? First he says, you've got to "know
       the rocks." I think this is a zen thing. Or maybe a sculptor's
       thing. On his website, he says he is hyperaware of possible
       nooks on the rock's surface:
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       > "The most fundamental element of balancing in a physical sense
       is finding some kind of 'tripod' for the rock to stand on. Every
       rock is covered in a variety of tiny to large indentations that
       can act as a tripod for the rock to stand upright, or in most
       orientations you can think of with other rocks. By paying close
       attention to the feeling of the rocks, you will start to feel
       even the smallest clicks as the notches of the rocks in contact
       are moving over one another."
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       > After that, he says he has to "find a zero point, or silence
       within myself." I'm not sure what that means, but it's my sense
       that the man's got great hands, hands that can feel the exact
       weight of a stone and a mind that can concentrate, and somehow
       get inside these stones, and, as he puts it, "Become the
       balance." I think Michael, when he does this, crosses the line
       between animal and mineral. For a brief time, he is what he
       builds.
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       Re: Rock Balance
   DIR By: Chiprocks1
       Date: January 5, 2013, 7:20 pm
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       I've gone on my fair share of road trips and invariably I come
       across random rock balance-art. Not saying it's by the same
       person. I highly doubt it. But yeah, it's very cool to see stuff
       like this when least expected.
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       Re: Rock Balance
   DIR By: Mac
       Date: January 5, 2013, 8:47 pm
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       It does have a Zen like quality... Doesn't it.
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