WTF? Oh, it’s art! Land art, to be precise. I asked a guy who was unloading the bagfuls of hay stuff into big heaps, and he said that it was:

An architecture project commemorating the 40th anniversary of the exhibit that like STARTED it all, it being “land art.” And where was that exhibit hosted? Right here at Cornell. So some visiting professors in the Architecture program put this shit together. It’s actually mad precise, they use rulers and shit:

CONTEST: Guess the number of bags of hay they used — no counting the rows and columns, though, y’all. Send your guesstermation to watch@kitschmag.com and you’ll get a blog post featuring YOU or a PERSON OF YOUR CHOICE. Fo’ real real, not fo’ play play.

There was other cool stuff on the Arts Quad, too. Something less avant-garde and more, um, avant-guard?

Who are they? Ring of Steel! (Risley.) Here’s what the president sent me in an email:

Hi Evan!

Ring of Steel meets Mondays and Thursdays at 8pm in Risley’s Great Hall. For the next few weeks we’ll be using Saturday practices as “fights only” because we have a few performances coming up.

There’s no previous experience necessary; we’d love to have you join us! The doors to Risley are card access, but we’ll have a Ringer standing by the door at the beginning of practices to let people in. You can add yourself to the list-serv if you like.. Send an email to rosi-l-request@cornell.edu. The body of the email should just said the word ‘join’ (without the quotes). Hope to see you around!

You’re welcome to contact me for more information. Here’s a link to the original chapter of Ring of Steel in Ann Arbor, Michigan. http://ringofsteel.org/

Jen Wholey
President
Ring of Steel: Ithaca

And no one is around to hear it — as the officer nearby testified — does it make a sound? Physicists tell me that it does, but I’m still waiting to hear back from the Philosophy department.

MOAR PIX.