Two and a half years ago, I wrote a post about a bicycle wheel that looked as if it could have been drawn with a Spirograph set.
If you're of my generation, you might have had one. It consisted of toothed wheels and bars used to draw various kinds of roulette curves. The drawings that came out of it looked like some "dream catchers", wind chimes, stained-glass windows--and, yes, bicycle wheels--you've seen.
I don't remember whether I (or my brothers and I) got the Spirograph or the Etch-a-Sketch first. But, for a time, we had both--that is, until the screen broke on the Etch-a-Sketch. (I still miss it sometimes!) I don't know what happened to the Spirograph set, but as I recall, we had it for a long time. If memory serves, my brothers were still using it when I went away to college.
As I mentioned in my earlier post, not only some bicycles and wheels, but various accessories and art installations made from them, look like they could have been drawn with one of my favorite toys.
Here is another:
If you're of my generation, you might have had one. It consisted of toothed wheels and bars used to draw various kinds of roulette curves. The drawings that came out of it looked like some "dream catchers", wind chimes, stained-glass windows--and, yes, bicycle wheels--you've seen.
I don't remember whether I (or my brothers and I) got the Spirograph or the Etch-a-Sketch first. But, for a time, we had both--that is, until the screen broke on the Etch-a-Sketch. (I still miss it sometimes!) I don't know what happened to the Spirograph set, but as I recall, we had it for a long time. If memory serves, my brothers were still using it when I went away to college.
As I mentioned in my earlier post, not only some bicycles and wheels, but various accessories and art installations made from them, look like they could have been drawn with one of my favorite toys.
Here is another:
