Vintage Movable Silver Plastic Sculpture... ID?

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27/10/2009 6:28 am

Does anyone recognize the maker of this sculpture? Its actually a lot of fun, can be arranged in a number of different ways. Its vintage, and I thought I may have had something special because it came from a good estate (kept it for a number of years). Then I was at the W hotel in Minneapolis and noticed they had a number of other very similar objects laying about... so maybe its some mass produced.. not valuable object.. but does anyone know the designer / seen these around anywhere else?

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27/10/2009 6:46 am

Tangles
By self prescribed inventor of infinity art (which is inaccurate)...Richard X. Zawitz. The "Tangles" were wildly successful in the mid 80's. Lots of them out there.

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27/10/2009 6:52 am

Thanks for the info! That...
Thanks for the info! That was quick. Its so funny because it was hard to find any info on based on search terms like "movable plastic sculpture".... etc. And it turns out to be such a common thing. (I figured as much when I saw them littered around a hotel lobby...) Still - its lots of fun!

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27/10/2009 6:54 am

Tangle
Available in multiple sizes and colors.
http://www.tanglecreations.com/

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27/10/2009 7:23 am

I've seen these around for years.
The sort of thing they sold at groovy gift shops in the 1970's, along with black-light posters and Newton's Cradle desk toys.
However, I have the vague recollection that this thing first existed in a metal (chrome) version, and it wasn't a mass-produced novelty but a bona fide sculpture/ work of art(?).

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27/10/2009 7:51 am

My childhood memory is vague...
My childhood memory is vague too. I associate the Rubiks cube and the Tangle to the mid 80's, even though the Rubiks predates the Tangle. In the Midwest we had Spencers Gifts...lots of stoner type paraphernalia and gag gifts. What's even stranger, everyone I knew had a Rubiks, even multiples...but no one had a Tangle. Guess it was too arty for brainiacs.

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27/10/2009 8:09 am

Spencer gifts was THE coolest store of my childhood.
How I pined for those static-electricity orbs, lava lamps, and music boxes that played the theme from "Love Story".

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27/10/2009 8:52 am

I worked at
Spencer Gifts in the mall when I was 16. The craziest part of the job was that everyone had to learn how to pierce ears. We had a little gun and we pierced ears all day long. Can you imagine nowadays letting some kid in the mall pierce your ears!

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27/10/2009 9:23 am

You can't get your ears pierced at the mall anymore?
Wow. I got my ear pierced at a Claire's store on my way to a Prince concert in 1985. Hurt like hell, but I put on a brave face for the six-year-old girl waiting to go next.
If they can't get it done at the mall these days, where DO parents take their kids to get their ears pierced? The local tattoo/body-mod emporium?

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