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![]() The mattress was too big to fit into our garbage bin, and I didn't have any friends with a truck, so it stuck around for a few months before Mike figured out a way to get rid of it. We got bolt cutters. |
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![]() On top was a quarter-inch thick yellow urethane foam pad. Under that was a quarter-inch pad of blended cotton felt. |
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![]() In this photo, the top two layers have been peeled back, revealing the third layer, a purple quarter-inch pad of resin-treated shredded clippings. This is the layer that actually touches the springs inside the mattress. |
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![]() Mattress marketing concentrates on how comfortable the beds are for sleep. Strange that cars, clothes, liquor, medicine, cosmetics and tiny, wireless video cameras are sold with sex, but mattresses are marketed with sleep. I bet sales of a Serta Velvet Lovenest would put other beds to shame. |
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![]() The springs on this mattress were intricately twisted together, obviously designed to avoid poking through the padding. I'd like to give hearty "thank you" to whatever engineer worked on that spring pattern. |
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![]() Hey Rob, great story about a mattress, where the hell are the shoes? |
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![]() Cutting apart steel springs with pair of bolt cutters is pretty enjoyable. When you clip through a wire, there is a satisfying "click". Within a few hours I was through the wire and on my way to freedom in Strasbourg. |
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![]() I coiled 5 bedsprings together with some of the other bed-wire and hot-glued them to a pair of Converse low-tops. |
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![]() I laced them up and went out to the sidewalk. |
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![]() I jumped around until I was totally out of breath. Mike manned the camera, and he got some good action shots. Eventually one of the springs tore out of the hot-glue bond, so I hobbled back upstairs. |
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![]() I convinced Antonia to film me out at the basketball court. Just walking through the park, holding the shoes in my hands I got a lot of attention. "Where did you get those shoes"? One young mother asked. |
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![]() I started off with the whole court to myself, but before long there were quite a few people out there. They were watching a little, mostly just waiting for me to quit fooling around and get off the court. |
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![]() I think it was the wobble factor.. I had to move with a bit more caution, which limited the amount of gusto I could expend when leaping. In the sports world this is known as "tentative", which is probably the reason the WNBA decided to stop allowing players to wear high-heels. |
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![]() If you are getting rid of a mattress or a box-spring, you should first try to find a place that will clean, re-cover and re-sell the thing. You might even make a few bucks on it, but if you don't have a truck, and you DO have bolt-cutters, you might want to try fashioning your own pair of spring shoes. We can't play 1-on-1 spring-shoe league basketball however, as I decided to sell my pair on Ebay. |
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June 6th, 2002.