This is one of my favorite videos.

The artist’s fun-loving disposition shares something with mine, I suppose, though I only know her through this YouTube clip.

When making fake Tibetan prayer wheels at grad school in the ’80s, I’d come up with an idea to install a small record disk with a stylus or a looped strip of magnetic tape with a pickup head, either of which was supposed to be driven by the rotation of the mani cylinder. With the built-in gimmick that could utter the recorded voice of chanting mantra in place of a sacred script, the fake mani wheel would have become the real MacCoy.

For some reason, however, I didn’t acturally realized the idea. But today, after a couple of decades, I have become pretty much inspired by this hilarious piece of art and getting renewed my motivation to do my long-forgotten work.