Still More Learners of Rock Balancing

Hans Feenstra is a PhD student in Applied Psychology at Maastricht University in the Netherlands, studying haptonomy - "balancing thoughts and emotions," he explains. Just a few images are currently available of his work in his Guest Directory here. "I never thought it was important to take a picture of something that's supposed to be temporal," he writes. "Because that's the beauty of it, isn't it? I spent 45 minutes 'building' the three-master [ image to the left ] at the shore of Lake Balaton in Hungary and it was gone in 45 seconds." A further comment can be found on a Reflections page.

Inspired by playing with his children's wooden blocks and by Bill Dan's art, Grant Walker, Jr. has begun seeing what he can do with rocks found near his Florida home. An IT consultant, photographer, musician, and former "date raider" (neolistically speaking), Grant finds himself agreeing with Other Balancer Art Ludwig's observation that "rocks balance with my analytic design mind at full rest."

One half of a "seminary couple", Karyn Traphagen implies in her blog that the "veritable stonehenge" developing on her desk, inspired by Bill Dan's work, will not be permitted to distract her from studying Aramaic. However, her goal of "larger projects" may be tempered by cold fingers in the coming Philadelphia winter. More images (showing further progress) can be found on her Westminster Confessions web log. From her online pictures, It looks like the great variety of rocks on her desk had already been collected, and were there, just waiting to be used.