Bill, I have enjoyed your site immensely. As a novice stacker myself, it's good to know there are others who have given me something to shoot for. Boy, do I have something to shoot for (it's just an exhibition, not a competition). I look forward to future entries and to showing you my craft once it's up to speed. Keep on rockin', and thanks again for the inspiration.
Bill Dan, I saw You Balancing Rocks in Sausalito last Sunday. Amazing . . Amazing . . Amazing. Keep it Up - Rock-On. Sherry and the Group from New York.
I'm glad I have an easy way to reach you now! I'm a nature sculptor, and I have aften used balanced rocks in my work. Several years ago at Chrissy Field I saw your work, and you have inspired me ever since. I am a frequent visitor at http://www.rock-on-rock-on.com/, and I have a link to that site on my website; I also name you in my artist's statement as someone who has influenced my work.
There are a lot of People talking about Your Art and Skill, especially when They watch it on TV this past weeks. We Love Your Art, Tomoko [Kobe - Japan]
I enjoyed the demonstration you did in Sausalito on August 5th or 6th. I sure wish I'd had my camera. I had to scan one of your photographs to use on my Web site. It really added to my trip (from Toronto)to California. Here's some other pictures I took while on my San Jose/San Francisco trip.
I hope you're in that area next summer too! Keep the great work.
Bill Dan, this is UNBELIEVEBLE - I just found Your web site after so long wandering about You and your work. It is amazing . . . . When are coming back performing in New York ? Carla, Michael and the Bunch.
Hi guys, thank's again for the Nice Words - I'll be back again in Sausalito [ on the Weekends - weather permitting]. I'll see Yoy all - bring along Friends, brother and sister, let's Rocks.
Hi Bill, Congratulation for voted the Best Show on annually Fuji-TV Japan - The Show itself was amazing - and to see Your Art work was voted The Best amongs other Art and Performances around the World, it is a privelage. Ichiro, Shiro, Mariko, Yokohama.
Jillangelique, Greeting From Me and the rest of Us Rocks Balancer. Get ready with the pictures because I am going to tell You to My web master about You and We can add Your work and the pictures on the web.
It is rather a miracle. Years ago I saw you at the Palace of Fine Arts and was blown away. I never knew who you were and did not approach as I watched you watch folks try to figure it out. But being a rock lover, I knew I had to try. I bought a house and started converting my bare front yard and overgrown back yard into a collaboration of rock balancing and perennial gardens as I taught myself to feel the core of each rock and asked which of them wanted to come up off the ground and feel the weight of air around them. My neighbors think it fascinating or odd.
I have since used rock balancing in my work as a teaching artist. Over the course of two summers of working in a day camp running an expressive arts component of the daily activities, I have since taught nearly 1500 young people between the ages of 5 and 21 the joy of pushing the balance to the heights of impossible in order to overcome it. They understand the impermanence as well. It may only be for a few moments and when the chime of tumpling rock fills the air, it is only an invitation to find the balance again.
And today, after citing my inspiration yet never knowing who he was or what his name was, I received a link to Bill's website and the mystery was over. Bill...thank you for my ability to find this artform for myself. As a poet, I have known the balance of words, but to have the ability to move space through rock balancing has been a blessing, a meditation, and a salvation. Now that the snows of the northeast are melting and the rocks are ready to wake from their naps, I will have many hours finding the impossible relationships and giving them potential.
Georgia, Greeting from San Francisco. Glad that finally You can find our site on the net. I am lucky enough to have a friend that understand the Art and put together a nice web site - so We are going to invite You to add up some of Your work [pictures] and the Poem as well on the site. You can email me at [ bebalance@hotmail.com ]
Bill, You should see some of those nasty comments from {I presume some fat Boys that all they do just starred at the Computer screen] - It is all on those blogs. Look at Google and Type "Bill Dan Balancing Rocks". I hope those coward boys [ telling You are stupid homeless artist, hippies,etc] will be Man enough to talk to You here - directly.
Bill Dan, I am one of those sceptics and I am admitting right now that I was totally WRONG - after I see Your work from My Brother's Video which He took last week while You were performing the ART in Sausalito. AMAZIIIIIIIng . . . My Man. And folks . . If You can only see that Thing . . on top of that Bill showed some of His work on the Photo Album that will blow Your mind. Rock On Bill, Michael Steward, New York.
Yes and yes that was Me. Thank's Guys for all the Nice Words. If You have time, come over see Me Balancing Rocks in Sausalito [ on weekends - weather permitting ].
Saw you in Sausalito last weekend. Pretty amazing stuff. Will head over to your website. Be interesting if somewhere you explain your method for pulling off these cool works of art.
Bill (and other rock-stackers)- Here's an invitation to join this event:
Artist Gathering to Celebrate and Honor the Earth (p.s. Everyone is an Artist) RSVP (suggested but not required) to Zach Pine, zpine@aol.com April 23, 2005 Come celebrate Earth Day by joining professional artists, community members and passers by in an art in nature event on the edge of the Pacific. Using sand, rocks, and found objects off the beach, we will have fun collaboratively creating a vast, temporary site-specific sculpture. The very end of the day will be reserved for working in silence and listening to the sounds of nature and our work. Images of the completed work will be posted on greenmuseum.org. 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. Bring a picnic! Rain, fog, or shine, the gathering will take place. Location: South end of Stinson Beach, CA, US
Hope you and some of your fans can participate! -Zach Pine www.naturesculpture.com
Greetings - To Lisa and anybody else, You can see Me Balancing rocks in Sausalito down town [weekends mid day on - weather permitting], and sometimes in San Francisco Aquatic park [week days - low tide].
To Zack, Unfortunately I have do something else - I am surveying a site for the up coming event in Sausalito - City of Sausalito Garden Walk. Have fun Zack and all the Guys - Rock On.
Hello, First, Great concept, I am so impressed. I thought I had challenged patience being in a long distance releationship for two years now, but this!..wow, the patience right? or the skills?
Anyway, I am setting up a new site, which is called changebalance for my company Balance, ...I found your site on searching for inspiration on balance, I wanted to use a part of a picture, and was wondering if this is ok? My email is daniel@devetu.com, or daniel@netwood.net
Bill Dan, I am German living in Indonesia, I saw Your work on Channel 2 TV - It is amazing what You do, it is even more amazing when I got a hold on Your web site [ www.rock-on-rock-on.com ]. Also I heard from a friend in Japan that You won the best show on Fuji TV earlier this year. Congratulation - Rock On
Bill my name is John Scott Kielar and one of my watercolors is posted on your site through a great friend Joe Hill of North Carolina.I would like to provide a link to more of my works if you might be so kind...contact me anytime thanks John Scott Kielar
OK Guys, Thank's for the nice comments. If You have any pictures or any images that related to Balancing Rocks-Stones, You can also posted here on the blog. To John Scott Kielar - You are welcome with the links and pictures of Your work.
We were in Sausalito and wondered what everyone was looking at across the street...and we were utterly amazed. We could barely believe our eyes but then Bill offered to take one of his sculptures apart and redo it for us. Amazing. Go and see it for yourself!! Linda and Karen
I couldn't believe my eyes, but it was incredibly true. Bill balances rocks and creates a dynamic energy unlike any I have ever seen before. My sister and I came across Bill along the shore near the Presidio in San Francisco. I didn't realize he had been the person who balanced the rock formations I saw until he then took the formations down. Energy, faith, incredible skill. It was a purifying experience just to see the formations. Rock-on! Donna Mason from Canada
Bill Dan, With a group of Students We watched Your amazing Balancing Art on SBS TV Network in South Korea - UNBELIEVEBLE . . . . Greeting from all of Us - We are going to have fun Trying the Art as well,
Greeting From India, A Friend suggested Me to look up Your web site - It is Out of the World - no wonder it is the Highest Popularity in Yahoo India, Keep it Up,
The rewards of life come to those who do, not to those whomerely read, talk or day dream, Action is the key. Link to this site: inspiration picturehttp://www.inspirational-faq.info/
Bill, you inspire me. I'm a confessed conpulsive stacker. If I don't have rocks I'll stack anything that comes to hand. My personal best was 34 plastic baby dinosaurs with my left hand only on the Victoria Clipper ride to Victoria, Canada. But rocks have always been my muse. My Native friends find me amusing. It's OK though because they beleive me when I claim that I "hear" the rocks calling me out to play. I'm so glad there are others out there who can and will move the world in such simple and inspiring ways. Thank you!
WOW! my first impression upon walking down the beach and seeing 5 piles of rocks stacked upon eachother was "what is that?!?"
Before I could contemplate whether it was real or not, I saw this man stand up and pick up a huge rock. He hefted the rock up upon another small rock and then spent several minutes twisting, turning, tilting, and tweaking the rock until suddenly he let go...
The fact that it was balancing was not what impressed me... it was the fact that you hit it several times with your finger and it did not fall... now THAT was IMPRESSIVE!!! I watched you build two more rock-on-rock piles.
At home, after a considerable amount of time, I was able to balance a half eaten (but solid) bagel upon a donut. HAHA!
Loved the Balancing Point video, it inspired me to make the effort to visit some naturally balancing rocks we have here in Australia, at Cathedral Rocks National Park.
I am a rock balancer/stacker and have bee looking for some time for some history on those egg shaped cones that Andy Goldsworthy makes. I once read an article that said similar forms were made by tribe somewhere sometime... If anyone has any info please email me at Livingrocks1@yahoo.com
Hi Everybody, For the past few months I've been realy busy with the Art - Balancing Rocks here and there, teaching kids of any ages, trying to put things in perspective - as to relate the Art, the work and process on all Points and angle. If anybody has any questions or needs some info, please let Me know
Hey Bill, I would like to introduce you and others to the Beautifully elegent stacks done by a German master stacker. His work can be found on "Flickr" photo sharing site under the name of "hickoree23". His stacks are a treat to behold.
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Bill, I think this blog is a great idea. I'll post a link to it on the website.
Bill, I have enjoyed your site immensely. As a novice stacker myself, it's good to know there are others who have given me something to shoot for. Boy, do I have something to shoot for (it's just an exhibition, not a competition). I look forward to future entries and to showing you my craft once it's up to speed. Keep on rockin', and thanks again for the inspiration.
Right on Guys, If You need anything about How to Balance those Rocks, let Me know.
Rock On
Bill Dan, I saw You Balancing Rocks in Sausalito last Sunday.
Amazing . . Amazing . . Amazing.
Keep it Up - Rock-On.
Sherry and the Group from New York.
Bill-
I'm glad I have an easy way to reach you now! I'm a nature sculptor, and I have aften used balanced rocks in my work. Several years ago at Chrissy Field I saw your work, and you have inspired me ever since. I am a frequent visitor at http://www.rock-on-rock-on.com/, and I have a link to that site on my website; I also name you in my artist's statement as someone who has influenced my work.
You can see my work at www.naturesculpture.com
til soon I hope,
-Zach Pine
Hi Zach, Nice to hear from You - finally. I am aware of Your work very much [ Daliel told Me about Your nice works months ago ] - Keep it up.
Hi Bill =)
THank you for showing me the magic and non-magic of balance, the power of intention and strength of belief.
Many moons, Petra
My name is Shiro Kawazumi from Japan. I was watching Your Balancing skill on Fuji TV here in Japan earlier this Year : You Rock . . . .
There are a lot of People talking about Your Art and Skill, especially when They watch it on TV this past weeks.
We Love Your Art,
Tomoko [Kobe - Japan]
Hi Bill,
I enjoyed the demonstration you did in Sausalito on August 5th or 6th. I sure wish I'd had my camera. I had to scan one of your photographs to use on my Web site. It really added to my trip (from Toronto)to California. Here's some other pictures I took while on my San Jose/San Francisco trip.
I hope you're in that area next summer too! Keep the great work.
Gord Collins
Thank's Gord, and everybody else that's been watching Me Balancing Rocks - I'll be doing that in Sausalito for a while [on the week ends ].
Bill Dan, Last week I saw You Balancing rocks in Sausalito. Amazing for Sure, I can wait to Practice it as soon as I get back home in Scotland.
Bill Dan, this is UNBELIEVEBLE - I just found Your web site after so long wandering about You and your work. It is amazing . . . .
When are coming back performing in New York ?
Carla, Michael and the Bunch.
Bill,
Love to show your work to my parents who are in town. Do you have a schedule as to where you might be between Feb 20 and 28.
Hi guys, thank's again for the Nice Words - I'll be back again in Sausalito [ on the Weekends - weather permitting].
I'll see Yoy all - bring along Friends, brother and sister, let's Rocks.
Hi Bill, Congratulation for voted the Best Show on annually Fuji-TV Japan - The Show itself was amazing - and to see Your Art work was voted The Best amongs other Art and Performances around the World, it is a privelage.
Ichiro, Shiro, Mariko, Yokohama.
Jillangelique, Greeting From Me and the rest of Us Rocks Balancer. Get ready with the pictures because I am going to tell You to My web master about You and We can add Your work and the pictures on the web.
It is rather a miracle. Years ago I saw you at the Palace of Fine Arts and was blown away. I never knew who you were and did not approach as I watched you watch folks try to figure it out. But being a rock lover, I knew I had to try. I bought a house and started converting my bare front yard and overgrown back yard into a collaboration of rock balancing and perennial gardens as I taught myself to feel the core of each rock and asked which of them wanted to come up off the ground and feel the weight of air around them. My neighbors think it fascinating or odd.
I have since used rock balancing in my work as a teaching artist. Over the course of two summers of working in a day camp running an expressive arts component of the daily activities, I have since taught nearly 1500 young people between the ages of 5 and 21 the joy of pushing the balance to the heights of impossible in order to overcome it. They understand the impermanence as well. It may only be for a few moments and when the chime of tumpling rock fills the air, it is only an invitation to find the balance again.
And today, after citing my inspiration yet never knowing who he was or what his name was, I received a link to Bill's website and the mystery was over. Bill...thank you for my ability to find this artform for myself. As a poet, I have known the balance of words, but to have the ability to move space through rock balancing has been a blessing, a meditation, and a salvation. Now that the snows of the northeast are melting and the rocks are ready to wake from their naps, I will have many hours finding the impossible relationships and giving them potential.
Georgia A. Popoff
Community Poet
Syracuse, NY
Georgia, Greeting from San Francisco. Glad that finally You can find our site on the net. I am lucky enough to have a friend that understand the Art and put together a nice web site - so We are going to invite You to add up some of Your work [pictures] and the Poem as well on the site.
You can email me at [ bebalance@hotmail.com ]
Bill, You should see some of those nasty comments from {I presume some fat Boys that all they do just starred at the Computer screen] - It is all on those blogs.
Look at Google and Type "Bill Dan Balancing Rocks". I hope those coward boys [ telling You are stupid homeless artist, hippies,etc] will be Man enough to talk to You here - directly.
Bill Dan, I am one of those sceptics and I am admitting right now that I was totally WRONG - after I see Your work from My Brother's Video which He took last week while You were performing the ART in Sausalito. AMAZIIIIIIIng . . . My Man. And folks . . If You can only see that Thing . . on top of that Bill showed some of His work on the Photo Album that will blow Your mind.
Rock On Bill,
Michael Steward, New York.
Bill Dan, is that You on the movie "Demon Within" Balancing Rocks on one of the scene ? Pretty cool Man.
Sylvia.
Yes and yes that was Me. Thank's Guys for all the Nice Words. If You have time, come over see Me Balancing Rocks in Sausalito [ on weekends - weather permitting ].
Saw you in Sausalito last weekend. Pretty amazing stuff. Will head over to your website. Be interesting if somewhere you explain your method for pulling off these cool works of art.
Saratoga, CA.
hi bill!
(new)
I just saw your site and the amazing things you are doin with those rocks!
Are you still rockin' out in sf?
If so, when and where at-
Lisa:)
Bill (and other rock-stackers)-
Here's an invitation to join this event:
Artist Gathering to Celebrate and Honor the Earth (p.s. Everyone is an Artist)
RSVP (suggested but not required) to Zach Pine, zpine@aol.com
April 23, 2005
Come celebrate Earth Day by joining professional artists, community members and passers by in an art in nature event on the edge of the Pacific. Using sand, rocks, and found objects off the beach, we will have fun collaboratively creating a vast, temporary site-specific sculpture. The very end of the day will be reserved for working in silence and listening to the sounds of nature and our work. Images of the completed work will be posted on greenmuseum.org. 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. Bring a picnic! Rain, fog, or shine, the gathering will take place.
Location: South end of Stinson Beach, CA, US
Hope you and some of your fans can participate!
-Zach Pine
www.naturesculpture.com
Greetings - To Lisa and anybody else, You can see Me Balancing rocks in Sausalito down town [weekends mid day on - weather permitting], and sometimes in San Francisco Aquatic park [week days - low tide].
To Zack, Unfortunately I have do something else - I am surveying a site for the up coming event in Sausalito - City of Sausalito Garden Walk.
Have fun Zack and all the Guys - Rock On.
Hello,
First, Great concept, I am so impressed.
I thought I had challenged patience being in a long distance releationship for two years now, but this!..wow, the patience right? or the skills?
Anyway,
I am setting up a new site, which is called changebalance for my company Balance, ...I found your site on searching for inspiration on balance,
I wanted to use a part of a picture, and was wondering if this is ok?
My email is daniel@devetu.com, or daniel@netwood.net
Best Regards,
Daniel Larsson
Balance.
Amsterdam
Hi Bill I saw Your Pictures on Stuff Magazine - June edition, tha't lead Me to Your web site on [ www.rock-on-rock-on.com ].
Bernie.
All right I saw that on [ langa.com ] - the Hotest spot today.
Amazing work Bill Dan - keep it up.
Jurgen - Hamburg, Germany.
Bill Dan, I am German living in Indonesia, I saw Your work on Channel 2 TV - It is amazing what You do, it is even more amazing when I got a hold on Your web site [ www.rock-on-rock-on.com ].
Also I heard from a friend in Japan that You won the best show on Fuji TV earlier this year.
Congratulation - Rock On
hey cool stuff
A neat rock balancing film:
http://www.senseistudios.com/video/bp.html
Hello!
We saw u last weekend and we want to say your work is very talented!!!
Congratulations!!!
i liked that movie very much.
Bill my name is John Scott Kielar and one of my watercolors is posted on your site through a great friend Joe Hill of North Carolina.I would like to provide a link to more of my works if you might be so kind...contact me anytime thanks John Scott Kielar
OK Guys, Thank's for the nice comments. If You have any pictures or any images that related to Balancing Rocks-Stones, You can also posted here on the blog.
To John Scott Kielar - You are welcome with the links and pictures of Your work.
We were in Sausalito and wondered what everyone was looking at across the street...and we were utterly amazed. We could barely believe our eyes but then Bill offered to take one of his sculptures apart and redo it for us. Amazing. Go and see it for yourself!!
Linda and Karen
i like your work a lot, it's different from mine.
But like you wrote on your site: there is no wrong way to balance
world capital of building with stones would be switzerland, you linked just one. Maybe about the material? Or maybe there are lot of magic places?
watch out: steintürme
would you link it on your side?
Hi There, Of course We'll link You Up on Our site.
Keep on Balancing,
Regard from San Francisco,
Bill Dan
I couldn't believe my eyes, but it was incredibly true. Bill balances rocks and creates a dynamic energy unlike any I have ever seen before. My sister and I came across Bill along the shore near the Presidio in San Francisco. I didn't realize he had been the person who balanced the rock formations I saw until he then took the formations down. Energy, faith, incredible skill. It was a purifying experience just to see the formations.
Rock-on!
Donna Mason from Canada
Superb Rocks Performance on Korean TV,s Network - Congratulation
Bill Dan, With a group of Students We watched Your amazing Balancing Art on SBS TV Network in South Korea - UNBELIEVEBLE . . . .
Greeting from all of Us - We are going to have fun Trying the Art as well,
Jim Kim
Greeting From India, A Friend suggested Me to look up Your web site - It is Out of the World - no wonder it is the Highest Popularity in Yahoo India,
Keep it Up,
Binendra
The rewards of life come to those who do, not to those whomerely read, talk or day dream, Action is the key.
Link to this site: inspiration picturehttp://www.inspirational-faq.info/
Bill, you inspire me. I'm a confessed conpulsive stacker. If I don't have rocks I'll stack anything that comes to hand. My personal best was 34 plastic baby dinosaurs with my left hand only on the Victoria Clipper ride to Victoria, Canada. But rocks have always been my muse. My Native friends find me amusing. It's OK though because they beleive me when I claim that I "hear" the rocks calling me out to play. I'm so glad there are others out there who can and will move the world in such simple and inspiring ways. Thank you!
WOW! my first impression upon walking down the beach and seeing 5 piles of rocks stacked upon eachother was "what is that?!?"
Before I could contemplate whether it was real or not, I saw this man stand up and pick up a huge rock. He hefted the rock up upon another small rock and then spent several minutes twisting, turning, tilting, and tweaking the rock until suddenly he let go...
The fact that it was balancing was not what impressed me... it was the fact that you hit it several times with your finger and it did not fall... now THAT was IMPRESSIVE!!! I watched you build two more rock-on-rock piles.
At home, after a considerable amount of time, I was able to balance a half eaten (but solid) bagel upon a donut. HAHA!
Thanks!
Loved the Balancing Point video, it inspired me to make the effort to visit some naturally balancing rocks we have here in Australia, at Cathedral Rocks National Park.
I am a rock balancer/stacker and have bee looking for some time for some history on those egg shaped cones that Andy Goldsworthy makes. I once read an article that said similar forms were made by tribe somewhere sometime... If anyone has any info please email me at Livingrocks1@yahoo.com
I think the best way is to ask the Man himself through his web site - go to google
Hi Everybody, For the past few months I've been realy busy with the Art - Balancing Rocks here and there, teaching kids of any ages, trying to put things in perspective - as to relate the Art, the work and process on all Points and angle. If anybody has any questions or needs some info, please let Me know
Hey Bill, I would like to introduce you and others to the Beautifully elegent stacks done by a German master stacker. His work can be found on "Flickr" photo sharing site under the name of "hickoree23". His stacks are a treat to behold.
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