March 26 at 11:00am

More Ball Machine Sculptures!

We love these things! Thanks Creative Machines! Check out their gallery here.



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March 5 at 10:05am

Machines Are Art

Thanks to CuriousityCounts for the tip!

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March 13 at 3:33pm

I Could Watch Rube Goldberg Devices All Day

Sure it’s been everywhere, but we have a nose for it too.

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December 19 at 11:06am

Rube Goldberg Forever! The Contraption II



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November 23 at 11:00am

Rube’s Brood Blooms Bigger And Bigger

After our post on Mr. Goldberg’s Inflating Influence, Colin Summers (thanks Colin!) wrote in and hipped us to this great list of fifteen (yes, FIFTEEN!) top Rolling Ball Sculptures.  Now you know you can’t go out and play: you’ve got to sit in front of this screen all day!  Don’t do that, just rejoice in knowing that this world has so many wonders to watch and witness.

Here’s one from the list to get you going (but then go out and play!):

It gives me a reason to get my teeth looked at. This sculpture is on display at Columbia Basin Pediatric Dentistry in Kennewick, WA.

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November 12 at 4:07pm

Ivan’s Cool Contraption

Bowlers know we have a nose for Goldbergian complexity.  THE WAY THINGS WORK will forever remain our our list of Required Viewing.  We also endorse “home-made” and “swede-ing” amongst all nose-wearers.  We gave a Golden Honker today to Ivan in Austin for his embrace of all this goodness on 11/9/08.  



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October 26 at 10:39am

Rube Goldberg’s Brood Grows

Alright already.  So the brood before was a few bricks short of a load.  We know we needed more.  We had them in The Bowl but we weren’t letting them out.  

Somehow it seems that the folks who always trying to sell you something (in this case, sell you parents something) think that wonderfully complicated contraptions sell beer.  We don’t see the connection, but we are glad they do, as we love these spots.  So much work went into getting them right, right?
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We particularly like when the complicated domino machine involves people, like here:
But just because you’ve seen these ads, don’t go reaching for the grown-ups’ drinks, or else we will have to censor ourselves!

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