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The 2nd annual Kinetic Derby Day was held in West Columbia yesterday.
I heard a brief mention of it at the start of the local news last night as Qiao was flipping channels, and looked it up as I hadn't heard of such a thing before.
From above website:
Always wanted to be in the Parade?
Have a Quirky Creative side just fighting to get out?
Need a thrill to stir your inner child?
..
The day begins with the kinetic sculpture parade. Local and regional artists showcase human-powered, handmade floats that use gravity and kinetic energy to move along the parade route. The themes range from flying monsters to bizarre satire. Following the parade, soapbox cars take over the massive hill on Meeting Street to race in adult and children divisions.
I didn't find any videos posted yet of this year's event*, but found some from last year, and similar events in a few other locales. It looks so awesome, like so much fun! Much more so than other parades I've seen. (I seem to be emotional at the moment, as watching them is bringing tears to my eyes today.)
*There are no video clips of it even on the local news sites. I can never understand why the full local news shows aren't made available online after they are aired. The websites usually only have a few assorted clips. If I'd known it wouldn't be online, I'd have told Qiao to flip back to the news so I could watch whatever they were going to show. But I didn't because it was only one of several things mentioned in the "coming up during the next half hour" promo, meaning we might need to sit through 25 minutes of other stuff before getting maybe 30 seconds of what I'd been curious about.
Video title: Kinetic Derby Day 2018 West Columbia, SC, Soapbox Derby Race, Parade, and Festival
Posted by: Blake M
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmOktOIi_vI
Video title: Kensington Kinetic Sculpture Derby 2013
Posted by: Ed Yother
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzNpD_1l95s
Video title: Kensington Kinetic Sculpture Derby 2017
Posted by: Fran Blanche
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83j8JGpe_-k
More: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=kinetic+parade
I heard a brief mention of it at the start of the local news last night as Qiao was flipping channels, and looked it up as I hadn't heard of such a thing before.
From above website:
Always wanted to be in the Parade?
Have a Quirky Creative side just fighting to get out?
Need a thrill to stir your inner child?
..
The day begins with the kinetic sculpture parade. Local and regional artists showcase human-powered, handmade floats that use gravity and kinetic energy to move along the parade route. The themes range from flying monsters to bizarre satire. Following the parade, soapbox cars take over the massive hill on Meeting Street to race in adult and children divisions.
I didn't find any videos posted yet of this year's event*, but found some from last year, and similar events in a few other locales. It looks so awesome, like so much fun! Much more so than other parades I've seen. (I seem to be emotional at the moment, as watching them is bringing tears to my eyes today.)
*There are no video clips of it even on the local news sites. I can never understand why the full local news shows aren't made available online after they are aired. The websites usually only have a few assorted clips. If I'd known it wouldn't be online, I'd have told Qiao to flip back to the news so I could watch whatever they were going to show. But I didn't because it was only one of several things mentioned in the "coming up during the next half hour" promo, meaning we might need to sit through 25 minutes of other stuff before getting maybe 30 seconds of what I'd been curious about.
Video title: Kinetic Derby Day 2018 West Columbia, SC, Soapbox Derby Race, Parade, and Festival
Posted by: Blake M
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmOktOIi_vI
Video title: Kensington Kinetic Sculpture Derby 2013
Posted by: Ed Yother
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzNpD_1l95s
Video title: Kensington Kinetic Sculpture Derby 2017
Posted by: Fran Blanche
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83j8JGpe_-k
More: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=kinetic+parade
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