Austin Improv

And this one especially so:

http://www.break.com/index/best_rube_goldberg_ever.html

Very creative use of a wide range of objects.

I have a deep nerdy love of Rube Goldbergs. Especially the Honda one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEF0cg1j35o

Asaf: *boggle!!* That was amazing!

Thought you guys might like this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w

There are obviously some edits but overall still very impressive.

Holy wow. Where do you see any edits? That looks like a single shot to me.

Ya know, I feel the same feeling watching Rube Goldberg contraptions that I do when watching stop-motion animation: I'm amazed, but I also get a headache thinking about the amount of work involved.

happywaffle wrote:Holy wow. Where do you see any edits? That looks like a single shot to me.

Yes.

happywaffle wrote:Ya know, I feel the same feeling watching Rube Goldberg contraptions that I do when watching stop-motion animation: I'm amazed, but I also get a headache thinking about the amount of work involved.

Yes. They have about the same Work:Product ratio.

Science & Art. My two loves.

OK GO!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w[/youtube][/youtube]

Love love love love love love!

WHen I grow up, I'm gonna have a whole room to do things like this in.

sara_anm8r wrote: Yes. They have about the same Work:Product ratio.

I'm not sure how it is with stop motion, but I used to build Rube Goldberg devices all the time as a kid, and I was amazed at how fast I got at it. In the beginning, or when working with a strange new component, it is slow trial and error, but after a while one can rather quickly translate an idea into a machine with relatively few trials.

In that OK Go video there's a part where you can see all the broken TVs from their previous takes.

Article from Wired:

How OK Go’s Amazing Rube Goldberg Machine Was Built

They used a lot of 'fiddly bits': complex stuff that was often intentionally calibrated to the music timing, thus making it a nightmare!

Q&A with some of the Rube-Goldberg builders.



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