Here’s a year-end tiny collection comprising a cow and lots of cockroaches. The cow is mechanical, caught here on video (Thanks to Rachel Ehrenberg for bringing it to our attention): [vimeo]15577865[/vimeo] The University of California supplies this description: Cow: the digestive system’s complex mysteries: Nova Jiang is an artist and UCLA alumna who makes work […]
Tag: Rube Goldberg
Herscher’s cobbled-together page-turning machine
A modern inventor’s complexly-modest work, documented here in a video. The accompanying caption says: “Joseph Herscher takes a sip of his coffee, pulling string thereby tipping paintings. Balls roll down paintings, lighting burner to boil water causing books to tip. Vase and computer get knocked off the table, releasing tape to open front page of […]
A helping of Rube Goldberg, please
For engineers, designers, and all other persons who love, love, love complexity, it’s almost always a good time to visit the Rube Goldberg web site. Here’s a panel from one of Rube Goldberg‘s many cartoons: BONUS: Heath Robinson drawings, if you happen to see them
All about taking a photograph, Rube Goldbergily
David Dvir and his collaborators made a Rube Goldberg machine about making 2-D photographs, and then they made a four-minute(or so)-long video showing the machine in action: Dvir wrote an explanation. And then the bunch of them made a video about making that video: (Thanks to investigator Geri Sullivan for bringing this to our attention.)
This leads to that, etc., engineering
A mechanical engineering tour de force, a la Rube Goldberg, in a four-minute video, sponsored by an insurance company: