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When a vision becomes reality
A few years ago while reading the ads in the back of Popular Science magazine I came across this cool little thing called an Ecosphere, which is an all-enclosed, self-sustaining, ecosystem. There’s algae, little shrimp and bacteria that all eat off of each other. The system can last up to 10 years!! I knew I had to get one - I never pass up an opportunity to be a nerd.
Years went by, and I forgot about it. Late last year, as I was looking at various sites for cool stuff for the casa, I found this hand hook sculpture by Harry Allen, and WHAM my idea was born! Why not create an unbelievable way to show off the Ecosphere? That’s what I did. I bought an Ecosphere and ordered the hand sculpture, and low and behold this is what a manifested vision looks like:
