The BMW Museum's kinetic sculpture takes your brain to another dimension

Ready to have your gray matter softly stroked? Perhaps you should take a trip to BMW's recently opened museum in Munich, where a kinetic sculpture comprising 714 metallic balls suspended in air will soothe your weary mind. It's one of those things that's better seen than described, but if you can imagine a wave of undulating orbs that appear to weightlessly float, you'll start to get the idea. Can't afford the flight? Check out the video -- which features some serious easy listening jams -- after the break and see the installation in action.

[Via BMWCCA]

[Bradley Posted Jul 6th 2008 4:54PM]

I'd like to see a followup to this story with more insight into the technology and software controlling the sculpture.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 6th 2008 4:55PM]

Does anyone else hear the same soft porn music as me?

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 6th 2008 5:00PM]

I love how too many complain nowadays, appreciate the art and then shut the **** up. "The music sucked, oh the balls were not real enough ...blah blah." Lets me frank, if you dont like the article then thats it, no need to bash it.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 6th 2008 7:45PM]

Very cool place.

I took some video of my own when I was there a few weeks ago at the opening weekend. (Canon HF100 1080p scaled down for Flickr)

http://flickr.com/photos/aschwabe/2598011311/

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 6th 2008 8:43PM]

make these change height to display different cars, i might even pay to see it.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 6th 2008 9:59PM]

This reminds me of last year's Olafur Eliasson's Frozen BMW at the San Francisco MOMA:

http://www.sfmoma.org/exhibitions/exhib_detail.asp?id=316

BTW, he's the same artist now doing the 4 waterfalls in NYC. Very cool at night.

[kp kp kp Posted Jul 6th 2008 10:00PM]

714 = 7 * 102 = 7 * 51 * 2 = 7 * 3 * 17 * 2
Hmmmmmmmmmm...................

[mattssmith Posted Jul 7th 2008 11:17AM]

Not sure I get where you are going with that?

[Bloobie Posted Jul 6th 2008 10:02PM]

Very nice display.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 6th 2008 10:03PM]

It's just so coll!

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[(Unverified) Posted Jul 7th 2008 5:46PM]

Wow. That's hardcore. And yes, the music made me want to burn a couple hundred Yanni CDs.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 8th 2008 1:19AM]

The blitter and copper chips would be proud.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 9th 2008 2:14PM]

I think it's a cool visual interpretation of BMW's brand.

http://www.unboundedition.com/content/view/6988/50/

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 11th 2008 1:35AM]

I like that one of the tags is "balls". Haha.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 11th 2008 1:41PM]

wow.. amazing.. another reason to go visit munich..

@paul.. "Lazy implies a lack of intelligence"... "People write scripts because they are dumb"...

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 13th 2008 4:17AM]

feckin youtube killed the video. edit the post with a new link? if you can find one? that was some cool shit

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 14th 2008 12:11AM]

I love my '99 Z3 Coupe - THE classic design (and the best until the '08 came out). Eat your hearts out (the girls like it too!). I think the sculpture is the '08 Z4 Coupe - $40k of pure delight.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 14th 2008 5:54PM]

I would love to see the rig they have up in the ceiling controlling all of that.