"Gutter balls" refers to when, in bowling, the ball rolls into the side gutters instead of hitting any pins; it means a failed attempt at knocking down the pins.
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The centerpiece of the exhibition, Various Self Playing Bowling Games (2011), is a bowling alley consisting of large - scale projections of bowling games from the late 1970s to the 2000s, each hacked by the artist to throw
only gutter balls.
Entitled «Cory Arcangel: Pro Tools,» the exhibition will include projections of bowling video games in chronological order from the 1970s to the aughts; in effect, the entire evolution of gaming can be witnessed, and Arcangel has hacked the code so they only
throw gutter balls.
For example, it only takes a
few gutter balls before someone learning to bowl will be able to send that ball down the middle of the lane.
A series of large - scale projections feature six bowling video games dating from the 1970s up to the 2000s, each of which has been hacked so that the player bowls a perpetual stream
of gutter balls.
Granted he never ate a dog... Pitched,
gutter balled, air balled layups like a spaz or chronically smelled horrible (according to Michelle) but being a huge developer, coordinated athlete, playboy, author, tv star, works wide celebrity, father, Ivy leager, NYC icon, President and defender of the working class ain't so bad!!
There were too many strikes and spares (and
gutter balls) to keep track of but here's how the point breakdown shuck down by night's end.
Watch out, my friend — Obama's got reach (as long as he doesn't roll
a gutter ball) and I guarantee that John McCain can take a hit and keep on going.
I think Butler was anticipating another «300», well he got
a gutter ball doing this movie.
One of the pleasures of Various Self Playing Bowling Games lies in watching the increasingly realistic depictions of rage and frustration, as
gutter ball after gutter ball is inexorably rolled.
But as good as they are, every now and then even professionals bowl
a gutter ball.