SAN MATEO, California — Drinking too much Mountain Dew? Then the Soda Bottle Wave might just be the project for you. Reuben Margolin, an Emeryville, California- based artist has strung together a 20-feet tall installation created out of 612 used one-liter soda bottles.
“Think of it as a curtain of undulating plastic bottles,” says Margolin of the project on display at the Maker Faire DIY festival.
Margolin took about six months to make it. That includes about 80 hours spent on cleaning the bottle, steaming out the labels and sterilizing them. He drilled holes into the bottle caps and hooked them up using steel clips with each junction linking to four bottles. The entire installation hangs on a circular handle about 12-inches in diameter.
And no, Margolin didn’t drink all that soda. He and a friend visited two recycling centers in the area to get all the used bottles they wanted.
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