USA Road Trip #14 - WAY OF THE BIRD KING

[Music] [Speaking indistinctly] Good thing I'm smarter than gravity But you're not better than gravity No, but I just outfooted gravity Okay this bird is gonna be rich And last... the birdhouse! Besides of the 25 standing  over there, this is the last bird house Let's go and get rid of it Do you want to help with this Raven? Good contact, good box [Construction noise] [Music] [Construction noise] [Music] [Construction noise] We have one, two... four of those Okay Okay so last week I asked all o

f  you beautiful people if you could come into Lincoln Park and put 10 feet strings  with different types of sticks and stones and driftwood and seats and feathers and natural  found objects like that on them and then I would come into Lincoln Park and then transport them  out to the much secret locations here at Vashon Island when we're building the Burger King. Now, I picked up all the stuff and I'm hanging it here because I need to untangle all the sticks  because obviously, they tangle quite

a lot We have this beauty here, greetings to Oscar the Bird King [Music] Oh, I missed Xavier. He would  have been perfect for this test [Music] Well, are you good at this kind of stuff? Nope! Just hang it like this  here. That'll be the first one [Construction noise] That looks nice [Construction noise] [Speaking indistinctly] [Car noise] Okay everybody, now it's 2 o'clock and we still have a couple of things, so I think it's important that we all just push for the last couple of  things so we

get it done and finished um, I think that William and Santi should continue on the beard But I think they shouldn't go down. I think  they should more like go a little bit out  also If you have a beard that goes straight  down, there probably your mustache here on the sides it's gonna go a little bit out  but in the front it's gonna go straight down [Music] [Construction noise] -It looks super good, right? - Yeah, it looks great [Construction noise] [Music] [Noise] A little bit left, left! Okay

This one is called Oscar the Bird King.  The fairy tale is about Oscar he swims across the ocean from a little island and  then he comes to a little bigger island ... the United States, and then he walks across the  the islands up over the mountains and then in the end, he comes here and then he becomes  the Bird King himself because he took a lot of responsibility so now he's asking everybody else  "Take responsibility!" Home for this one is like this: "He swam here from the island where  his

mother once has birthed him he walked across the mountains till his giant  feet start hurting, he spoke a crow, a little girl, the orcas heard him sing he used to be a little troll, now Oscar is the Bird King [People clapping] - Backside - Yeah, the back - Perfect man! That's it! - Nailed it, screwed it, sent it [City traffic] So what we're trying to do here  is basically to make the sculpture seem like it walked into this cityscape here and the plaza  in front of the museum and is destroying

it but we have a concrete footing for the sculpture  because the sculpture is like 20, feet seven meters tall so we created this round flower bed here  that imitates the round shape of that flower bed and the other ones over here and then  we're trying to steal some of the plants from the other flower beds and put them in this  flower bed and take some of the wood chips from the other flower beds and put them here and  put the imitated bench that we have broken but imitated the other ones so we

're trying to  bring everything together here to make it look like the troll just walked in in what was  already here and then stumped on the bench [City noise] Here's a good stealing spot That's probably gonna need quite three times [Speaking indistinctly] All we do is the slate last and we  would trip and then we sleep [Speaking indistinctly] Super nice just to be hustling on the  deadline and see everybody... all the ants doing each their little specific job  here and then, yeah, what is the

the last, uh, the last thing of the day here  before this Frankie Feetsplinter is done Jacob, William, Bardur, Viktor, Ema, Alexa, Santiago, Matthew, Raven and Niels,  Sebastian and myself thank you so much for being a part of this lovely road trip. For the  last recalculated we started exactly 98 days ago Tomorrow's 99 it's because you  suckers leave on 99. I stay until I'm 100. Anyway, I just want to say thank you all so  very very much for making this dream of mine come together with 10 beaut

iful sculptures um  14 beautiful blocks and a great, great time so thank you I think this one is worthy of being  the last one we finish. It's called Frankly Feetsplinter and thank you so much and of course there's  no pupil party without 12 beers, two six-packs for the crew [Speaking indistinctly] [City noise] It's now been exactly 100 days since we started  building the first sculpture in Hainesport, New Jersey It definitely has been an  adventurous road trip and has been really really nice 7

art talks all sold out. Nobody  got hurt, no traffic accidents, all the sculptures finished on  deadline. I think I did 75 interviews Two of the interviews on National NPR Morning  Edition and CBS Sunday morning. So that's pretty big for a little guy who just used to bike around  Copenhagen. The dumpster diving has now made it Just like we're on a road and of course  also feels a little bit empty today the whole crew left yesterday. My manager just told me we got nine submission forms last week

from the serious offers for building trolls in the  United States alone. So definitely we are busy I believe we have some somewhat 12 sculptures  next year in the United States scheduled already Um, yeah, my new big goal is to do one in each  state all over the United States and so that's my new big goal. I am hoping to realize that by '27. I think that should be doable. Definitely, thank you, big thanks and a big hug to the whole  crew. This would never have been possible without William and Vi

ctor and Jacob and Santiago  and Bardur and Xavier and Seba and Leilani Camilo, Raven and Matt, Julian, Lisa, Fanny and  Nils and Emma, my wife Alexa and of course myself And also a big thank you to the almost  1 000 volunteers that helped create all of this and everybody back home such a big crew by now  can't believe it 26 people working full-time we've now made 125 sculptures in 17 countries all over the world. That is beyond my wildest dream when I dreamed about one day becoming a profession

al  artist one day in the future. That dream only stretched to supporting myself and my  bicycle you know and now we just drove the roller coaster, 6 000 miles across the United  States, built 10 sculptures in a hundred days [Music]