Invitation

close up of a cube in color, the real life version would be silver aluminum skin

An overall view of a silver aluminum HuaHui MagicCube House



Want to participate in the building of the HuaHuiMagicCube House?

Bambam - creator of the consistently widely admired fun and sexy Beanbag chair - says if I do have a venue, people would make the cubes. If no venue in view, people have less incentive.

Venue:

We will have an international MagicCube House built by people from all over the world, it will be exhibited under a big tree in a French 18th century park in a pretty town just 5mn outside of Paris. So here is the first venue of our HuaHui Magic Cube House. Garden party and musical event in the domaine garden under a big tree Here..

We will need 3200 cubes.

Instructions:

1/Gather 6 beer cans, size 500ml,
2/Take each can, cut off the top and the bottom
3/transform can into "skin" : make one cut from top to bottom -
4/flatten out the can into a squarish/rectangular sheet of aluminum
5/use ordinary large scissors, cut the sheet into 4 equal width strips
6/now you have 4 round ring of paper thin aluminum skin (like skin off an eel)
7/fold each ring into half, so you have a "V" shape strip on edge. You should have 4 "V" shape strips.
8/place the 4 "V" shaped pieces flat, and assemble them into a square frame.

< (folded edge loop faces left)
^ (folded edge loop faces up)
> (folded edge loop faces right)
v (folded edge loop faces down)

All ends pushed inside loop, no exposed edge.
Finished form is a square frame of 11cm2.

9/push the open end into the loop end: open into loop, open into loop, etc
10/ now you should have a square frame.
Measure each side, should be around 11cm
Try to make it as close to 11cm2 as possible; +/- a few mm is ok.
11/Staple each corner and secure the frame
12/ do the same for each can; so you should have 6 square frames with a square hole in the centre.
13/ sign your name if you like at the bottom right hand corner of ONE of the frame. (One signature per cube)
14/put the 6 frames into an evelope and mail it to me. Its more cost effective to send a flat object, and storage for pre-assemblage stage; please send your cubes in 6 loose frames in an envelope. Its easier to manage at this end until the assembly phase kicks into place.

A list of Cubes is put up here, once a person has finished one, and sends me green light that its done; just give me your name and I will put your name onto the Cube to indicate that the specific cube has been completed.

15/ if the envelope is itself a pretty object with stamps your creative design etc, they will be displayed as a parallel paper art: "MagicCube Mail Art" collective for the MagicCube House exhibition.
16/ Exhibition will be held when the House will be completed. The sooner we get all the cubes, the sooner it will be exhibited.
17/ Artists will be invited to visit the installation for a garden party and mini music festival when completed.

You can submit as many cubes as you like, but only one signature per cube. (dont scribble all over the cube! )

Where to send your cubes?

Put your contact in commentary. I will give you your "cube no. and ID", and the address to send to via email.