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Wooden Machine that erco wishes he had/made

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  • K2K2 Posts: 693
    edited 2011-07-29 16:10
    There are lots of ways to spend your time. Some are more useful than others. In that respect, this fellow's project reminds me of my eldest daughter's Aikido classes, club meetings, and conventions. Seriously, what is the point?
  • David BDavid B Posts: 592
    edited 2011-07-29 16:16
    This is what art is all about! People get a charge out of it! That's the point.
  • K2K2 Posts: 693
    edited 2011-07-29 17:03
    David B wrote: »
    This is what art is all about! People get a charge out of it! That's the point.

    I'm sure you're right. Guess I never caught onto civilized art. Hang gliding, skiing, or dirt bike riding is more my cup o' tea.
  • $WMc%$WMc% Posts: 1,884
    edited 2011-07-29 19:55
    Finally found some wood for eico.
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    were is he?
  • localrogerlocalroger Posts: 3,452
    edited 2011-07-30 07:41
    V.S. Ramachandran has a theory going that art is about creating a stronger response than would ever naturally occur in one of several recognition systems. The OP machine was obviously made to create a stronger "funky mechanical device" impression than any functional mechanical device ever would. In that sense making and experiencing art isn't that much different from flying or riding a fast machine to create powerful impressions, except that art appreciation is less likely to put you in the hospital than extreme sports.
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,261
    edited 2011-07-30 15:29
    "It's the wood that makes it good!" Newman

    Great find, Roy!

    @K2: Ya just GOTTA expose yourself to art! http://www.posterart.com/ourposters/exposeyourself.html
  • K2K2 Posts: 693
    edited 2011-07-30 15:51
    There is a visceral sense of truth to what you say, localroger. Some of the kinetic sculptures in Paris, like the pair of giant lips, tug at me in ways I can't explain. Pics I've seen of some of the 'art' from Burning Man are similarly intriguing, even thought the event itself reeks of moral depravity.

    erco...I'm at a loss for words. :)
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,261
    edited 2011-07-30 16:44
    @K2: Gotta love the Pompidou museum, I know those lips all too well!
  • Martin_HMartin_H Posts: 4,051
    edited 2011-07-30 16:52
    The off center gears are really unusual. Do any useful machines use that sort of thing?
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,261
    edited 2011-07-30 17:09
    Very useful for quick return mechanisms. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-circular_gear

    Also, I suspect that BD's "R Hex" has noncircular gears driving its legs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0NFrA-Nx4Y
  • localrogerlocalroger Posts: 3,452
    edited 2011-07-30 21:33
    K2, you speak of moral depravity as if that's a bad thing....
  • skylightskylight Posts: 1,915
    edited 2011-07-31 14:51
    I wooden't have believed it unless i sawed it myself!
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