The “Bus Ball” Spherical Microbus
February 13, 2007 – 11:03 am by Dan Volkens
Filed under Cool Stuff
This one you’ve just gotta see for yourself.
*Update* It turns out that Billy F. Gibbons isn’t the creator of this awesome sculpture, but actually a man by the name of Lars Erik Fisk.
Created by Billy F. Gibbons, one of those bearded ZZ Top guys, it’s a completely spherical buildup of an original Volkswagen Microbus. Read more about it over at Corky Coker’s blog.
* Image courtesy Corky Coker Blog
The “Bus Ball” Spherical Microbus
February 13, 2007 – 11:03 am by Dan Volkens
Freakin’ awesome! That’s really trippy.
i love this thing!
“Bus Ball” is actually the work of sculptor Lars Erik Fisk. Unfortunately, the piece was recently wrongly credited to Billy F. Gibbons on http://blog.coker.com/, the blog of Corky Coker. Since Corky’s posting, many other blogs have linked to the story about Fisk’s Bus Ball, but have similarly misinformed readers about the actual artist. While many people have tried to post comments on Corky’s blog to correct the information and fairly credit Lars Erik Fisk, the efforts have been repeatedly and not-so-mysteriously deleted. I’m not sure why the Corky Coker blog is so adamant about wrongly attributing “Bus Ball” to Billy F. Gibbons, but it would be nice if the rest of the blogs interested in the story could make an effort inform people of the truth.
Well dangonit. Can’t we trust anything on hte ‘Net. *sarcasm* ;) Seriously, thanks for bring that to our attention Zak. We won’t be deleting any comments here about that. I’ll edit the post above to reflect it. Thanks!