This video is part of a larger installation/sculpture piece of a large bathroom scale, which the audience can step onto and trigger the video. The video is placed where normally the weight is read but my "feel good" scale will have a doctor lip syncing to "feel good" songs. This project began as a Guinness Book of World Records (GBWR) challenge to myself to build the largest bathroom scale in the world. My intention: a scale that would make any person feel small, no matter how much they weighed. I actually applied, but was rejected by the GBWR. They did not want to create a "first," new category, for my attempt. If it were accepted, I would have made the scale work accurately, as one of the conditions of something normally small made large has to work as the normal-sized object. Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statue that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.

Weigh In, 2008, Single-channel video sculpture (interactive), 05:51, 10.5' x 9.5' x 10"

This piece is a large bathroom scale, which the audience can step onto and trigger the video. The video is placed where normally the weight is read but my "feel good" scale will have a doctor lip syncing to "feel good" songs.

This project began as a Guinness Book of World Records (GBWR) challenge to myself to build the largest bathroom scale in the world. My intention: a scale that would make any person feel small, no matter how much they weighed. I actually applied, but was rejected by the GBWR. They did not want to create a "first," new category, for my attempt. If it were accepted, I would have made the scale work accurately, as one of the conditions of something normally small made large has to work as the normal-sized object.

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