Just down the street from the Machines, a comically oversized yellow tape measure that replaces millimetres with centimetres lies flung across a courtyard, as though it had fallen out of the pocket of the world's largest architect.
While people straggle in, a young man tapes an oversized flip chart to a portable blackboard.
As the daughter of Filipino immigrants, I have an indelible childhood image of my mother taping an oversized map of the Philippine archipelago on the inside of her closet door.
The surreal features included red lips smoking 3-D cigarembroideredidered onto shirts and coats, fluttering flower appliqués adorned with wings trembled on oversized tops, and holographic body harnesses made of tape measures encased maxi dresses.
At dinner, one of Samantha's roommates pointed out the key signifiers of different girls at the table: an oversized T-shirt, hiding breasts bound by athletic tape, was one sign of an A.G., while a femme, easily mistaken for straight, was identified by the company she kept.
Rush composes his manuscripts on oversized sheets of paper that he will sometimes cut and tape and clip together as he builds the book.
He brought an oversized grey portfolio, a little beaten-up and sealed closed with duct tape.
Although Marc Anthony, John Mellencamp and Destiny's Child performed songs on two stages near the tree, other performances by Tony Bennett, Jewel and the Radio City Rockettes had been taped several days in advance and could be seen on oversized television screens.
The animals that appeared most frequently on the tapes were foraminifera: giant single-celled organisms a bit like oversized amoebas.
You won't see this on the tape, but, after Ryan and I finished our tea and draped ourselves in oversized cashmere sweaters, Billy Bush ran home crying and tried but failed to do a hundred pushups.
A nostalgia-ridden exhibition opened in Bushwick over the weekend, featuring gargantuan VHS tapes, giant fireworks, a humongous Ouija board that actually levitates objects, and oversized amps that transport you into other worlds.
