HOWTO make a giant cardboard Gandhi

Randi sez, "Perhaps you would be interested in a 17 foot tall Gandhi avatar made out of cardboard? An artist by the name of Joseph DeLappe made this for his Eyebeam spring residency. Should you want to make your own, the process is well documented on Instructables."

After walking with Gandhi in Second Life for 240 miles I decided it would be interesting to extract my avatar from this online world and recreate him in monumental scale. This instructable takes you through the process of creating the 17' tall cardboard Gandhi using a variety of readily accessible (mostly free!) software tools, cardboard and a hot glue gun. The production of this sculpture took a total of 4 weeks, 6 days a week, 9-11 hour days with the assistance of an intern for two-three days of each week.

Link (Thanks, Randy!)

[#1 posted by Falcon_Seven , July 9, 2008 5:42 PM]

This is the birthday gift I have been wishing for every year.

[#2 posted by Bean Eater , July 9, 2008 6:04 PM]

Ganhi's packin'

[#3 posted by insect_hooves , July 9, 2008 6:39 PM]

d00d, I totally did the same thing! My avatar in SL is a cardboard box.

[#4 posted by skyismad , July 9, 2008 9:01 PM]

Looks like he created a 17' tall cardboard Dr. Bunsen Honeydew from the Muppets.

[#5 posted by seth matthew , July 9, 2008 9:10 PM]

I'm curious as to how the intern listed this on his/her resume.

Also, as a non-artist, what do you do when you finish a thing like this? By that point your friends are probably sick of hearing about cardboard Gandhi, and it doesn't sound like it's going to be displayed anywhere.

Just smoke a cigarette and call it a day, I guess.

[#6 posted by APOLLO , July 9, 2008 9:37 PM]

Gandhi never looked so good!

[#7 posted by Waterhouse , July 9, 2008 9:45 PM]

Huh, his website says he's also the guy behind the dead-in-iraq project, where reads the names of all the soldiers killed in Iraq out loud in America's Army, over and over. Interesting shift from political performance art in online games to gigantic cardboard statues. You can definitely see a theme of dedication bordering on obsession running through all his work.

[#8 posted by alisong76 , July 10, 2008 12:13 AM]

Oh, I was wondering how to do that.

[#9 posted by adrianawolfe , July 10, 2008 2:03 AM]

OH MAN, I totally just saw this exact sculpture tonight.

I was at Eyebeam visiting my friend Dan Wilcox (also doing an Eyebeam project, one involving circuit-bending and mad sounds).

It was so strange seeing this on BoingBoing and trying to recall where I saw it. "Was it...a newspaper story? A poster? Oh shit, no wait, I just saw it in person because I was there in Chelsea a few hours ago..."

CRAZY.

[#10 posted by Kieran O'Neill , July 10, 2008 6:16 AM]

This reminds me of home...

Slightly different pose, and the stick's in the other hand, but similar nonetheless.

[#11 posted by Jonathan Harford , July 10, 2008 6:51 AM]

Mathematically speaking, I think this is actually called a Gandhihedron.

[#12 posted by lekhni , July 10, 2008 7:28 AM]

Gandhi even manages to look a little muscular. I can almost see biceps on his right arm.