This article is here because... well, we found it amusing. After all, it's not really everyday that you get to hear news about a 16-foot ball of jeans being installed in a public place as a monumental art piece.
Remember the Namco game Katamari Damacy? The part where you have to push around this magical ball that can get anything to stick to it, and you need to push it enough to make a replacement star? Well, someone may have been playing this game a little too much and one day decided that he or she would do the exact same thing. The results of the effort weren't exactly enough to replace a star, but then again, at least they tried.
Not much is known about the purpose of this art piece which has recently been installed in Xiamen in China, and we have also not been able to find the name of the creator of this sculpture (either we don't have enough Googling skills or the artist has left out his name on purpose).
In any case, news reports have stated that:
"Visitors watch a two-ton ball made of a bulk of jeans in an exhibition center in Xiamen, east China’s Fujian province July 13, 2006. The exhibition is themed 'Fashion Slave' and every visitor has the chance to capture 5,000 yuan (US$625) cash reward if he or she works out how many jeans constitute the ball."Personally though, seeing this giant ball of pants just makes me wonder how many washing machines it would take to get all that laundry done...
Source: PSPUpdates and
people.com