Comments on: Recycling Bowling Balls

Recycling Bowling Balls

Tube — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:37:42 -0800

Beyond the Lanes is a website devoted to using old bowling balls for art. Paul Livert is an artist who likes to add metal to old bowling balls. Giant Rosaries made of bowling balls. Bowling balls can be used to demonstrate scientific principles, as in this huge Newton's Cradle. Nowata, Oklahoma boasts a bowling ball fence. Bowling balls also make useful cannon balls, as well as durable dog toys. (YouTube)

By: not_on_display

not_on_display — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 04:54:11 -0800

Strike!

By: three blind mice

three blind mice — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 05:00:42 -0800

Indeed, Livert has a junk dealer's license which allows him to "pick" trash put out to the curb before it is hauled away by the sanitation crew... If he's not searching through trash illegally in the dead of night, then it's not really art is it? Outstanding post Tube.

By: 5MeoCMP

5MeoCMP — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 05:07:21 -0800

I made a newton's cradle out of bowling balls at Burning Man one year ... 2001 perhaps? We had so many balls we made a giant pool table too, out of astroturf and 2x4's. Never quite got the pool cue worked out though. Great post!

By: Slack-a-gogo

Slack-a-gogo — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 05:18:01 -0800

That Newton's cradle is pretty cool. Fun post.

By: MrMoonPie

MrMoonPie — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 06:19:47 -0800

I was walking home from work one day, and there by the side of the road was a black bowling ball attached to a 6-foot length of chain, with a pair of handcuffs attached at the other end. Figuring I'd have use for that some time, I carried it home. Next time a buddy got married, the ball and chain made an appearance. We left it in a planter somewhere near Dupont Circle--wonder who found it?

By: bugmuncher

bugmuncher — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 07:47:54 -0800

I hear in New Zealand, they have a fence made entirely out of toothbrushes...

By: rhymer

rhymer — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 07:48:53 -0800

What a load of old balls.

By: Marie Mon Dieu

Marie Mon Dieu — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 07:50:21 -0800

From the Paul Livert link: "If it isn't fun, then I don't want to have it around." That's gonna be my new motto in life. Very cool post, love the bowling ball art; really great eye candy.

By: Doohickie

Doohickie — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 08:13:08 -0800

Best use of a bowling ball that I've witnessed was at a Buffalo Bills tailgate party in Houston just before the Bills played the Texans a couple seasons back. Some folks were using the holes in the bowling ball as a shot glass. Think about it.

By: nanojath

nanojath — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:19:11 -0800

And here I thought the opportunity would never come up to write "why, I know an artist who's worked with bowling balls (and the neglected bowling pin!).

By: johnj

johnj — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:20:25 -0800

Neet post. Thanks. BTW, these bowling balls, however, have not been recycled. They have been re-used. Big difference. /pet peeve, don't mean to offend.

By: Tube

Tube — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:06:17 -0800

Excellent point, and thank God you didn't say "reimagined".

By: johnj

johnj — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:11:45 -0800

If I EVER say something like that, I give you ALL permission to kill me with those bowling balls, in the most horrible way possible.

By: pinknoiz

pinknoiz — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:55:19 -0800

My friend Charlie Milgrim is another bowling ball artist.