Those 100 Million Sunflower Seeds Are Being Removed

Remember that installation of 100 million meticulously hand-painted ceramic sunflower seeds that just opened a few days ago at the Tate Modern? It turns out they’re giving off “noxious ceramic dust” and now they all have to be removed. Whoops.


October 14, 2010

Tate Modern’s New Art Installation: 100 Million Sunflower Seeds

The Tate Modern has housed some strange art – huge curving slides, a massive artificial sun and a giant spider, to name a few. But its new installation is the strangest yet: a mind-boggling carpet of 100 million sunflower seeds.


May 9, 2007
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Awesome Tube Slide Should Replace Stairs

Who needs stairs? They’re so last century. If I had my druthers, going up a floor in a building would be done via escalator, and going down would be done via slide. Giant tube slides, to be exact. You might think it’s impractical, but that would just mean that you’ve murdered your inner child.

The folks at the Tate Modern Art Gallery in London have very healthy inner children, fortunately. They’ve gone ahead and installed gigantic tube slides that run from the top of the building all the way to the ground floor. When I get around to building my own home, you can bet that I’m gonna be installing something very similar.

galleryPost('tateslide', 8, 'Tate Super Fun Slide');–Adam Frucci

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