Sort of a like a seesaw splint mechanical thingy, by Luca Pozzi.

Gregory Witt makes such good things. They are like little sketches of tiny moments that somehow require intricate feats of engineering. Like a cloud and a tornado and a puddle

“Water is disturbed by a small fan blowing on its surface. A light sensor is positioned to detect these disruptions. This data is read by a microcontroller, which then plots the information in the form of a seascape.”
-machine for drawing small seascapes

“Fans are sequenced to cause a twelve-foot structure of wood and rigging to slowly sway.”
-Mast

I climbed a mountain with him this summer.

Nova Jiang, a friend I made this summer, has her paper airplane piece in a group show at LM Projects, in LA.

CAUSE & EFFECT
Nova Jiang
Len Lye
Robert Rauschenberg
Jacob Tonski
Peter Fischli &
David Weiss
Sep 05, 2009 – Nov 14, 2009

LM PROJECTS is please to announce its first exhibition, “Cause and Effect,” showcasing a collection of video based performances and kinetic sculpture from the mid 1960′s to the present. Though the discourse surrounding each of the selected works diverge from one another and their classification as kinetic art, they nonetheless are linked through their mechanical, temporal, and movement based components.

In Nova’s piece, people are encouraged to launch paper airplanes through a dangerous course of snipping scissors to an empty cornucopia awaiting their inclusion.

The Machine from mudlevel on Vimeo.

mudlevel brings us tiny “scams” so intricately-orchestrated and time and labor intensive that the monetary benefit becomes more of a punchline than an actual goal.

via shoesfullofdust | Dylan Foley

Misguided machines and the humans that make them, making one’s life more difficult in tiny but poignant ways, M. Kontopoulos has some shared sensibilities, which were pointed out to me by Caroline Woolard.

In removal studies, a simple machine slowly steals his blanket while he sleeps: “By studying the sleeping body, my aim was to capture something very honest and very animal about human beings.” In machines that almost fall over, a set of wooden cams force hammers to knock a series of awkward sculptures off-balance: “My intention was to capture and sustain the exact moment of impending catastrophe and endlessly repeat it.”

Craig Mulholland: “as if presenting the outcome of a battle between pre and post-industrial machines.”