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Artists Battle Over Giant Bra Balls
By MARGIE MASON
Associated Press Writer
EL CERRITO, Calif. (AP) — Hers weighs 650 pounds, his weighs 1,300 pounds, but when it comes to a competition between two giant balls of bras, does size really matter?
Artists Emily Duffy and Ron Nicolino are more concerned with copyrighting their creations than cup size and cleavage. They've retained lawyers and traded threatening letters over who owns the bra ball concept.
Meanwhile, their collections keep growing — huge spheres of lace, silk and padding, bras of all colors, shapes and sizes.
Nicolino has used 14,000 bras from an abandoned project to hook them across the Grand Canyon. Now he's pulling his 5-foot-wide ball to Los Angeles behind his 1963 flamingo pink Cadillac, looking for a worldwide tour sponsor.
``It's making commentary as it's driving along. It's about making dialogue about body image,'' Nicolino said.
Nicolino acknowledges that Duffy came up with the idea. He said he was planning to collaborate with Duffy but dropped her when she proposed using only some bras and sealing them with silicone.
Duffy, who accuses Nicolino of stealing her idea, counters that his roadside attraction is really about exploiting women.
``The only reason I'm doing this is that I just don't want it to be another case of a man getting one over on a woman,'' said Duffy.
She approached Nicolino for bras to decorate her Vain Van, a minivan festooned with black bras, Barbie doll busts, high-heeled shoes, curlers and a pink steering wheel that says ``Princess.''
She later proposed the bra ball idea. Shortly thereafter, he said he wanted to do the project alone.
In protest, Duffy sent for a copyright and launched a mass e-mail to friends, requesting bras to build her own ``BraBall.''
Now it's 5,850 bras thick and about 3 1/2 feet in diameter. There are well-worn bras, milk-stained nursing bras, furry bras and plain ones of all sizes.
``It's a monument to the average American woman who is so strong, and yet no one talks about that,'' Duffy said. ``She is solid in a very dense way, the way the ball is. Women hold this world together.''
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By MARGIE MASON
Associated Press Writer
EL CERRITO, Calif. (AP) — Hers weighs 650 pounds, his weighs 1,300 pounds, but when it comes to a competition between two giant balls of bras, does size really matter?
Artists Emily Duffy and Ron Nicolino are more concerned with copyrighting their creations than cup size and cleavage. They've retained lawyers and traded threatening letters over who owns the bra ball concept.
Meanwhile, their collections keep growing — huge spheres of lace, silk and padding, bras of all colors, shapes and sizes.
Nicolino has used 14,000 bras from an abandoned project to hook them across the Grand Canyon. Now he's pulling his 5-foot-wide ball to Los Angeles behind his 1963 flamingo pink Cadillac, looking for a worldwide tour sponsor.
``It's making commentary as it's driving along. It's about making dialogue about body image,'' Nicolino said.
Nicolino acknowledges that Duffy came up with the idea. He said he was planning to collaborate with Duffy but dropped her when she proposed using only some bras and sealing them with silicone.
Duffy, who accuses Nicolino of stealing her idea, counters that his roadside attraction is really about exploiting women.
``The only reason I'm doing this is that I just don't want it to be another case of a man getting one over on a woman,'' said Duffy.
She approached Nicolino for bras to decorate her Vain Van, a minivan festooned with black bras, Barbie doll busts, high-heeled shoes, curlers and a pink steering wheel that says ``Princess.''
She later proposed the bra ball idea. Shortly thereafter, he said he wanted to do the project alone.
In protest, Duffy sent for a copyright and launched a mass e-mail to friends, requesting bras to build her own ``BraBall.''
Now it's 5,850 bras thick and about 3 1/2 feet in diameter. There are well-worn bras, milk-stained nursing bras, furry bras and plain ones of all sizes.
``It's a monument to the average American woman who is so strong, and yet no one talks about that,'' Duffy said. ``She is solid in a very dense way, the way the ball is. Women hold this world together.''
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