{"id":1323,"date":"2009-02-22T00:35:04","date_gmt":"2009-02-22T07:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=1323"},"modified":"2026-02-19T10:12:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T18:12:27","slug":"a372-kaleidoscope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=1323","title":{"rendered":"#a372 :: Kaleidoscope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/022209.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1324\" title=\"022209\" src=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/022209-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"022209\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" align=\"right\" srcset=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/022209-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/022209-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/022209.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>I think we forget how to see. We&#8217;re so absorbed with processing most of the time that we fail to register the weight of anything in front of us.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh, there&#8217;s a car.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Not, &#8220;if I could have an exploded-view version of that floating around, I&#8217;d really <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecoolhunter.net\/design\/THE-HONDA-RACING-F1-CAR-INSTALLATION\/\">have something<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This was a Christmas gift at some point in the past 10 years. Hand-inlaid wood wraps a triangular tube of mirrors with a glass marble (or more likely, half-marble) at the end.<\/p>\n<p>It reminds you that you are <i>seeing<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think we forget how to see. We&#8217;re so absorbed with processing most of the time that we fail to register the weight of anything in front of us. &#8220;Oh, there&#8217;s a car.&#8221; Not, &#8220;if I could have an exploded-view version of that floating around, I&#8217;d really have something.&#8221; This was a Christmas gift at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,19,3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-fetish","category-instrument","category-toy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1323"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1821,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323\/revisions\/1821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}