This is interesting..

Rosemarie Fiore rides the whirligig and plays pinball - and turns the experience into art. Cool.

It represents the link between the old world’s rush of simply being in motion (which itself recalls the primitive Russian ice slides of the 1700s) and the new turbo-charged world of the Raptor, where riders are strapped in with powerful foam restraining devices as their legs dangle freely at 60 mph over the bunnyhops, and then slowly revolve as they plunge into a horseshoe turn.

Pop art, motion theory, spirography, and amusement park pop psychology.


Rosemarie Fiore
Documentation of the artist playing pinball and creating a painting
Evel Knievel pinball maching, oil on vellum
2001

and I can’t resist quoting this-

Not to sound melodramatic or alarmist, but in an age when glassy-eyed and twitchy latchkey kids are logging six hours straight on Sonic the Hedgehog-alone-it’s reassuring to know that actual hedgehogs, albeit fiberglass with bucket seats, possess enough reanimated charm to bring thousands of kids together every day.

Show a kid a real hedgehog and, believe me, they’d be charmed. Take it from someone who’s done it with the most world-weary cynical little teenagers you’ve ever seen :) They cannot resist the weird cuteness of the hedgehog.