Topsy Turvy Bus
Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
CybersAM – “I shot this while driving behind him on the Bay Bridge, trying to capture how it leans. Don’t worry though it has been anaylyzed by an engineer and it is not as top heavy as it looks.” – Cyberbuss photo report on The Topsy Turvy Bus
Topsy-Turvy bus makes statement about U.S. budget
Inside a West Oakland warehouse, some of the best minds in American ice cream are collaborating with Burning Man’s top art car builders to create a piece of roving political theater for the upcoming presidential campaign.
The Topsy-Turvy Bus, a “shortie” yellow school bus with its twin welded upside down to the roof, was commissioned by Ben & Jerry’s ice cream co-founder Ben Cohen to protest U.S. military spending.
A crew of 10 artists who build sculpture for the annual Burning Man art festival in the Nevada desert is putting the finishing touches on the bus, including stenciling the sides to say, “The U.S. Budget Is Topsy-Turvy.” They are putting large pie charts on the flip-out stop signs that show half of federal discretionary spending is reserved for the Pentagon, and diet-size slivers set aside for other concerns such as education, health care and the environment.
whoa
very cool project.
is it due to roll into nyc anytime soon, or were you just stoked about it in general?
West Coast friends are involved in it, Adam.
gotcha….
my compliments to the fabricators.
if it ever does roll this way be sure to give us a heads up!
Yeah, I’d like to see it cruising in Time’s Square giving tours like those second-story peeping red monsters.
that would rock. "to the right, the olive garden was once the home of a renowned sex toy emporium that carried the city’s finest edible underwear…"
I am with this bus right now in Washington, DC.
Last night, we stayed at the appropriately named Budget Motor Inn on New York Avenue.
Our travel experiences can be followed at:
http://www.truemajority.org/topsyturvy
Tomorrow, we are driving it around the Pentagon
in a ritual designed to disempower the bad guys. My, there are a lot of cops in this town.
Yes that is where all the Pentagon money should be going, edible underwear. Go the Bonobo route to peace.
Hey Tom, keep us updated.
Sagmeister is a genius
Thanks for letting me know, heidi.
http://www.sagmeister.com/worknew14.html