I put the asterisk next to urSPIMES, like an asterisk, a note that these are only provisionally spimes, like the ol 61*.
Anyway, then I thought the asterisk at that angle was cool. It looks a little like a person, arms and legs sticking out. And I noted the five points. Most of the time these subjects created here will have five of the six aspects of spimes.
They will likely be conceived and designed within a network, and/or given a unique identity, and/or physically fabricated directly from virtual plans, and/or can be tracked, with geolocation technology, location aware systems, and/or can be searched out, and can be bought and sold that way, and/or designed for disassembly.
Very likely they're not going to be rapidly produced by computer fabricators, for example. In fact many will be handmade from junk materials.
Or some of them may be designed for disassembly, but not completely, or may have only attention paid to the components in a sense of what will be done about their disposition. Attention paid to all materials that go into and package one, for those occasions when the artwork in question is not completely designed for disassembly.
They will have holes in their status as spimes, something missing, a gap. Thus the hole. But with the addition of YOU, your participation, your assistance in telling their story, they can become spimes. Or UrSpimes, anyway.
So I stuck a U into the asterisk and you have it.
