I just thought of the perfect thing for this, but sadly I can't show it to you. Here is the story:
My boyfriend and I made a rainbow light-up pole last summer.
Basically, it was a steel pole with a steel spiral wrapped around it, light-up el wire wound in the spaces of the spiral (red-orange-yellow-green-blue), and then a clear, polycarbonate case. The crowning achievement was that my boyfriend figured out what was needed to wire the lights so that the pole could spin while the lights were on. (think: an electrical connector that works like a headphone jack- you can rotate the jack around without severing the connection) Anyway, we took this gorgeous creation and it's stage all the way across the country to Burning Man, where it was subsequently ruined within a day. Some big dudes thought it was fun to see how fast they could get it going, and somehow managed to *bend* the entire pole- even though my boyfriend had run computer simulations of the physical forces when designing it, to make sure it would withstand abuse. It was sad, and neither of us has gotten up the nerve to fix the darn thing yet- I don't think either of us wants to relive the disappointment. I'm going to post the only photos I have of it now, if you want to see.
