Apr 14 2009A Grass Wheel For The Concrete Jungle
The Grass Wheel was created by David Gallaugher, Kevin James, and Jacob Jebailey of the Dalhousie School of Architecture, and provides a comfortable, shoe-free mode of eco-transportation in the concrete jungle (grass-sandals guys, just saying). And I think we can all agree, it makes a very powerful statement. One about renewable energy or something. No? Human hamster wheels? A-ha -- space technology and growing grass upside down! Yes, very thought provoking. How do they do that?
Grass Wheel [neatorama]
Thanks to Armando, who is all man and refuses to walk in anything but a broken-glass wheel. Nice, Armando, but I'll stick to my burning coals wheel.
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Reader Comments
1. _me - April 14, 2009 1:30 PM
Best idea, ever.
Ever.
Seriously, someone give this guy a grant to go make up more cool stuff.
2. Daisy - April 14, 2009 1:31 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max told a used car salesman he had a wooden leg, and then stole the car he was looking at.
3. todders - April 14, 2009 1:35 PM
yeah, just try getting that down the sidewalk in New York...
reminds me of a DICK DONUT, hilarious shit:
http://www.digitalfuntown.com/videos/164
4. sirrix - April 14, 2009 1:36 PM
Someone please murder Daisy.
5. Chloe - April 14, 2009 1:36 PM
Amazing! Hey that's my old apartment in the background and now good ol' Spring Garden Road is on Geekologie! and Daisy: you're retarded. This was 100% real and was even featured in an Adbuster's either last year or the year before.
6. lookaze - April 14, 2009 1:37 PM
i want to use this in san francisco!
WEEE WEEE WEEE WEEE WEEEEEEEE
7. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - April 14, 2009 1:37 PM
This just proves that Kevin James will do anything for money. You sad, sad unfunny bastard.
8. gizmoduck - April 14, 2009 1:42 PM
has a stupid hair cut
9. 1st, 2nd, 3rd Police - April 14, 2009 1:43 PM
Pretty cool, but I bet turning would be a pain
10. Pew³ - April 14, 2009 1:49 PM
I made a grass wheel once.
And by wheel I mean joint.
And by made I mean smoked.
11. paineel - April 14, 2009 2:06 PM
how do you stop it? if you are going down hill etc???
end up tearing the grass off between your toes.
12. SPANKY - April 14, 2009 2:10 PM
it would be funnier if the picture was him walking in his walking grass wheel on the grass in some park...
13. Bush Whacker - April 14, 2009 2:11 PM
That's going across Spring Garden Rd at Birmingham St. in Halifax, NS.
14. Altaire - April 14, 2009 2:16 PM
very Kubrick.
15. Joey Jo Jo Shabadoo - April 14, 2009 2:16 PM
This is cool.
It was cooler when this story came out almost 3 years ago!
16. Evan - April 14, 2009 2:18 PM
How do you see where you're going?
17. Mr. Man - April 14, 2009 2:20 PM
I don't need to walk around in circles, walk around in circles, walk around in circles.
18. babykiller - April 14, 2009 2:40 PM
when i see this i think of raping DICK DONUTS
19. ShitBitch Carl - April 14, 2009 2:45 PM
LAME
Dalhousie sux
St. Mary's, now there's a university.
20. Timbo - April 14, 2009 2:47 PM
Put your shoes on hippy!
21. Watch - April 14, 2009 3:27 PM
"GRASS" wheel
22. Badpie - April 14, 2009 4:09 PM
If that guy tries to get on the subway I'm kicking his ass.
23. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - April 14, 2009 4:32 PM
This would be more interesting if it were on fire.
24. che-che - April 14, 2009 5:18 PM
no... you wont look retarded walking this thing. god damn idiot!
and daisy, i love you!!
25. HalifaxDave - April 14, 2009 6:25 PM
Hey My home town!!!
My Alma Mater. TUNS campus was right behind my apartment I saw them building this thing.
26. apples - April 14, 2009 7:25 PM
Awesome!
There's nothing like feeling the grass between your toes on a hot summer day :)
27. supernova_hq - April 14, 2009 8:42 PM
How the hell does he see where he is going?!?
28. Buckeye Voter - April 14, 2009 10:42 PM
Hope he just needs to walk a straight line.
29. Soop - April 15, 2009 4:36 AM
Every time I hear "eco-" or "green" I want to set a tire on fire.
30. jean - April 15, 2009 5:02 AM
am i dreaming or this is duplicated post? i'm sure i've already seen it here on geekologie...
31. TUNS_grad - April 15, 2009 9:18 AM
TUNS ftw! Spring Garden Road on Geekologie, nice.
Can they steer that thing?
32. Lia - April 15, 2009 12:55 PM
Ha sweet, I go to school with these guys!
Halifax!
33. jimbo - April 15, 2009 7:05 PM
i only read this blog to see what Max has been up to in Never Back Down...
34. Andre Forget - April 27, 2009 3:14 PM
Just as a note.....since we are all taking about creating things. That's my image that i captured in Halifax. Correct me if i'm wrong but i don't see the credit given. Is it really that difficult to credit ones work? And where was the image downloaded from? right click....
my 2 cents.
andre
35. Asher deGroot - May 18, 2009 2:14 PM
I don't know why my name always gets left out, but I was the FOURTH student who was a part of this project. You can add my name to the top there. Ohya, hills, up and down are no problem, the dirt falling on your head that you have to worry about. That and the odd pedestrian that gets sacrificed to the rolling, rolling, rolling, rolling.....
36. laptop battery sell - January 4, 2010 2:32 AM
It's a good idea .Thank you.