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Notorious BIG Spinning Wheels

Josh Cohen - PDA

Notorious BIG Spinning Wheels

Location

11:40 7100', Open Playa

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11:40 7100', Open Playa · open full map →

Directions

2.30 mi · 49 min walk · 19 min bike

From

6:00 & H

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  1. 1Take 6:00 toward the Man to Esplanade · 0.49 mi
  2. 2Head across the open playa to Notorious BIG Spinning Wheels, straight toward the Man (bearing 38°) · 1.81 mi
  3. ●Arrive: Notorious BIG Spinning Wheels · 11:40, open playa
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2.30 mi as the crow flies. Radials every :15, walking ~2.8 mph, biking ~7.5 mph. Open the live compass map →

About

Welcome to the realm of the Notorious BSW... part sculpture, part mirage, part sacred joke that somehow became legend. Rising from the dust, these monumental spinning forms offer something rare out on the playa... a place to pause, stare, drift, and lose yourself in something larger than explanation. In a city built on spectacle, rumor, mischief and absurdity, they stand apart... mesmerizing in motion, majestic in scale, and charged with the kind of presence that makes people go quiet before inventing their own mythology. Are they meditative? Definitely. Are they magical? Feels that way. Are they notorious? You must be new here. Nobody fully agrees on what they are... but certainty was never the point. Patience is a virtue PDA

From
Roxbury, NY, United States
Category
Open Playa
Program
Honorarium

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