The statue is a 22-foot-tall figure with one arm stretched skyward, grasping symbolic bolts of electricity, and with coils of cable winding around the torso.
It's enough to say that they include vast coils of cable disappearing into the sea; brief moments of distraction that cost what today would be millions of dollars; storms that, if not perfect, were flawlessly timed to induce chaos; foolish adherence to old ideas; absurd failures of human communications; and repeated proof that arrogance is a sign of stupidity.
His business requires him to be accompanied by a tremendous clutter of equipment — one or two thousand pounds of motion-picture cameras, extra lenses, big lights and reflectors, power converters, great coils of cable, bulky boxes of film, microphone hookups, and sound-recording equipment.
The invitation to the show featured the brand's double C logo made from colourful modem cables, twisted together until they frayed like the bouclé wool of Chanel's famous skirt suits, and the grand Beaux Arts interior of the Grand Palais was given a Silicon Valley makeover: all brushed steel, smooth white surfaces, snaking coils of cables and flickering screens.
But, you guessed it, given that Pixar creates digital movies, "setting up cameras" and "creating lights" and "prepping the environment" involves clicking mice and pressing keyboard keys, and not a lot of gaffer-taping long coils of cables to the floor for health and safety reasons.
As we pace the route together, he points out subtle interventions in the landscape – a torn palisade of wooden pallets here, coils of telephone cable there, not to mention the omnipresent rumble of gunfire (delivered by loudspeaker and alarmingly plausible).
Her raw materials – complex electrical circuitry and endless coils of copper cabling – resist decay and litter the landscape.
Standard magnets can be made from a coil of copper cable carrying an electric current.
If approved, New York's cars would join piles of crushed concrete, myriad lost vessels, coils of trans-Atlantic cable, millions of tons of bedrock dredged from New York Harbor and about 400 Sheridan and M60 battle tanks already collected and sunk by state officials since 1984.
Dangin approached the middle of the soundstage, where a team of P.A.s, like roadies setting up for a concert, were unloading coils of wire and cable and a huge apparatus that looked like an industrial-sized toaster oven (it turned out to be a printer).
IEX New York City Stock-trading venue uses 38 miles of cable, coiled up in a box, to create "speed bump" that levels playing field between high-frequency traders and other investors.
