The Danny's Car Incident

Alright, I’m really supposed to be summarizing Michael Fried’s “Art and Objecthood”, a seminal essay on Minimal Art blah blah blah… But I had to include this: Yesterday, our class took two cars out to Napa, where we are having a course at the di Rosa Preserve (an art museum and nature preserve where Rene di Rosa’s collection of Bay Area art is housed). I drove one car and Danny drove the other. As he pulled into the di Rosa, one of his tires blew out– it was ripped almost completely off the rim, which was bizarre looking. Then after a tow truck has come and gone and someone had helped Danny put the mini spare tire on, the mini blew out on the way to the auto shop… While Danny waited on the side of the road for another tow truck, the rest of us tried to figure out how to get ten people back to SF with one car… Eventually, I followed the tow truck to a nearby auto shop and delivered half my classmates to Danny, leaving them once again in the hands of Danny’s now-fabled car of doom. All in all, it was entertaining and it took up the better part of, well, the whole day. This will now be known as The Danny’s Car Incident, and Danny’s car is now subject to relentless ridicule… For posterity, here are the pictures documenting the formidable flat: