{"id":147,"date":"2008-06-17T13:23:02","date_gmt":"2008-06-17T17:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/archive\/2008\/06\/17\/disassembling-the-bike-with-2-brains-for-the-last-time\/"},"modified":"2008-06-17T15:34:12","modified_gmt":"2008-06-17T19:34:12","slug":"disassembling-the-bike-with-2-brains-for-the-last-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/archive\/2008\/06\/17\/disassembling-the-bike-with-2-brains-for-the-last-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Disassembling the Bike With 2 Brains for the last time"},"content":{"rendered":"

I haven't mentioned it in a while, but today I cut up The Bike With 2 Brains<\/a><\/strong> so I could make it into something else. It was kind of sad — I even said goodbye before I put saw-to-frame. But then again, now it's all new: now it can become other things and I can finally put that chapter to rest.<\/p>\n

Sometime in the past year or so, I realized what has been wrong with it. It's like it's been sick or something. When I brought it to Burning Man<\/a><\/strong> in 2005, it went out and had a life of its own: I brought it to the desert and let people take it away and do whatever they wanted. I designed the project that way and it went well. But ever other time I've brought it out, it's just a thing: a toy to play around with. As such, it's never been as good as that first time out.<\/p>\n

Now I could redo the experiment, but it was hard on me. I had to search for it so I could recover it at the end of the event in 2005 and it was a difficult, stressful, and frustrating experience. I could do things to make it easier to finish that aspect of it, but why? All I would be doing is to try and revisit that first experience.<\/p>\n

So now it's gone: really in pieces. It'll become some new things this year and I'm excited to get started on those things. Now I can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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