Chrinitoid Fans: my Wikipedia article on the Chrinitoid was rejected due to lack of sufficient references. I actually thought I found a surprisingly long list. Do any of you know any others? Or have experience authoring Wikipedia articles? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Chrinitoid Here is the current text: The Chrinitoid is the common name...

It was during a visit to the San Francisco Public Library back in the 1990’s where I stumbled upon an oddly familiar kinetic sculpture. It reminded me of the Chrinitoid back at RPI, but I don’t think I even knew who George Rickey was at the time. This was...

Installation of Two Rectangles Vertical Gyratory Up III (1970, stainless steel) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 1971. From The George Rickey Foundation website. George Rickey with Roland Hummel, the engineer and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute professor with whom he collaborated for over thirty years....

1979 interview with George Rickey as he installed his revolving panels (“Two Rectangles Vertical Gyratory II, Variation IV“) commissioned by Central Trust Bank in Cincinnati, Ohio (which now appears to be PNC). He references “a somewhat smaller one on the campus of Ressel Polytechic Institute in Troy New York”....

I am trying to find the issue of the RPI Unicorn (campus humor magazine from 1972-1983) where the Chrinitoid apparently got it’s name. The article was titled “I am Joe’s Chrinitoid” and included a drawing resembling the sculpture. I found this issue for sale with the Chrinitoid envisioned at...

For anyone looking for my 2004 Alumni Magazine article, it has been moved to an archive. You can find it here: https://digitalassets.archives.rpi.edu/do/516d4629-4878-4491-bf9a-503095c16788#page/54/mode/2up If it gets moved again, you can also find my copy here....

Brian Jones sent me this Rickey sighting at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center in Poughkeepsie. http://emuseum.vassar.edu/objects/23557/two-rectangles-broken-line...

A Facebook memory from 13 years ago. My sister took a trip to Switzerland and made a Chrinitoid pilgrimage. Someday, I hope to do the same!...

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02K5x3SJWkYPqWzGbphif9yeCaeiiN9frNfkd4QJ7HGG7e9EwP61DV1bVY5N652wpMl&id=670954694&mibextid=qC1gEa the “Windkinetische Skulptur…”...

Thanks Andrew Secor ’85 for this picture of the Chrinitoid circa 1985 And some other photos around campus....