I’ve got a newspaper subscription. The papers come wrapped in rubberbands. Over the course of several years I’ve managed to build a nice rubberband ball the size of a grapefruit.
Sadly, all the rubberbands are pretty overstretched and can’t really be reused for normal rubberband purposes, so I’ve decided to get rid of this thing. I could just toss it in the trash, but I thought maybe the folks on the SDMB could come up with a more creative (but serious) disposal method. I don’t want to do anything destructive or polluting, but otherwise, feel free to go wild.
I just want to know how the hell you make one. I work for the post office, so we have an abundance of rubber bands, and rubber band balls seemed to pop up all over the place, care of my bored cow-orkers, and they were invariably perfectly spherical. But I could never make one that didn’t end up shaped like a mutant potato / dog turd / asteroid.
Step one: Put it in the freezer to make the rubber bands brittle. Then announce you’re going to drop it off a building, have someone videotaping, and drop the ball, which should break apart into smithereens instead of bouncing. Put the video on YouTube.
I’m letting my big one slowly degrade and am growing a new one. On different days it has different meanings, but it is a work of art. I even put it in an art show once.
You start with a knot and add rubber bands going in different directions as you go.