Rose Parade Float

xoxoxoBruce · 11-04-2003, 06:26 PM

Boeing is sponsoring a Rose Parade float again this (next) year. They posted on their website, a call for employee volunteers to work on it. They said if you've never worked on any of the previous floats, you would be provided with a tee shirt that says Boeing Float Volunteer. If you worked on previous floats you should still have your tee shirt.

Anyway, they describe it thusly;
This year's 115th Annual Tournament of Roses Parade theme is "Music, Music, Music." Boeing employees were solicited for float ideas, and the "Music of the Spheres" theme (submitted in variations by several employees) was nominated and selected as this year's Boeing float theme. "Music of the Spheres" refers to Pythagoras' theories relating mathematics to music. The float, which is dominated by Pythagoras himself, will feature the tools of mathematics, musical notes of the major scale and celestial charts at the front of the float, and the "abstract" art of musical and planetary movement at the rear. The ratios in the gyroscope that Pythagoras will hold in his hands are those of a major musical scale.
Remember you saw it first in the Cellar.

elSicomoro · 11-04-2003, 08:45 PM

Let me guess Bruce...you're going to be Pythagoras?

xoxoxoBruce · 11-05-2003, 03:26 AM

Homey don't float.

elSicomoro · 11-05-2003, 07:07 PM

The salt water could help you with that.

OnyxCougar · 11-05-2003, 07:09 PM

That's a lot of plant life, man.

Griff · 11-05-2003, 07:26 PM

That wasn't, by chance, designed by a comittee?

xoxoxoBruce · 11-05-2003, 09:15 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Griff
That wasn't, by chance, designed by a comittee?

Designed? Feh, concocted maybe.
Oh I'm sure with all those flowers it will be striking and maybe even lovely. But the whole Pythagoras thing for music themed parade is a little to PBS/NPR for me. There are so many cool things that could be done with a music theme. (Sigh) Eggheads.

Uryoces · 11-06-2003, 05:25 PM

One word: "Deathmobile"

xoxoxoBruce · 11-06-2003, 07:04 PM

No, no..bad corporate image. Hmmm..... a few bucks to the right hands...and maybe a bottle of booze...hmmm.

11-04-2003, 06:26 PM	#1
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Rose Parade Float Boeing is sponsoring a Rose Parade float again this (next) year. They posted on their website, a call for employee volunteers to work on it. They said if you've never worked on any of the previous floats, you would be provided with a tee shirt that says Boeing Float Volunteer. If you worked on previous floats you should still have your tee shirt. Anyway, they describe it thusly; This year's 115th Annual Tournament of Roses Parade theme is "Music, Music, Music." Boeing employees were solicited for float ideas, and the "Music of the Spheres" theme (submitted in variations by several employees) was nominated and selected as this year's Boeing float theme. "Music of the Spheres" refers to Pythagoras' theories relating mathematics to music. The float, which is dominated by Pythagoras himself, will feature the tools of mathematics, musical notes of the major scale and celestial charts at the front of the float, and the "abstract" art of musical and planetary movement at the rear. The ratios in the gyroscope that Pythagoras will hold in his hands are those of a major musical scale. Remember you saw it first in the Cellar. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump. Last edited by xoxoxoBruce; 04-07-2007 at 06:06 PM.

11-05-2003, 03:26 AM	#3
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Homey don't float. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

11-05-2003, 07:09 PM	#5
OnyxCougar Junior Master Dwellar Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Kingdom of Atlantia Posts: 2,979	That's a lot of plant life, man. __________________ Impotentes defendere libertatem non possunt. "Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth." ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

11-05-2003, 07:26 PM	#6
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	That wasn't, by chance, designed by a comittee? __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

11-06-2003, 05:25 PM	#8
Uryoces 2nd Covenant, yo Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Pugetropolis Posts: 583	One word: "Deathmobile" __________________ The party's over ... the drink ... and the luck ... ran out.

11-04-2003, 08:45 PM	#2
elSicomoro Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 12,486	Let me guess Bruce...you're going to be Pythagoras?

11-05-2003, 07:07 PM	#4
elSicomoro Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 12,486	The salt water could help you with that.

11-06-2003, 07:04 PM	#9
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	No, no..bad corporate image. Hmmm..... a few bucks to the right hands...and maybe a bottle of booze...hmmm. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

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