Kinetic wall sculptures are impossible to look away from (video)
By Darren Murph 
posted July 21st 2010 11:44AM
posted July 21st 2010 11:44AM
We know, you're pretty proud of that oil painting in your den. And that cuckoo clock you snagged from an earlier trip to Germany is certainly classy. But do your wall ornaments draw crowds in the thousands and move in mysterious ways that even Bono never thought possible? Exactly. Hit that play button below for a glance at a handful of the wildest, zaniest kinetic wall sculptures this planet has ever seen. Trust us, we could all use the inspiration. 
Sweet
@gwhat88 Really wow, I need me one of those
@gwhat88
Let's just hope this guy doesn't team up with Jigsaw
@gwhat88 Brainwashing sweet, YES MASTER!
@gwhat88
If you think this is cool, check out Arthur Ganson's work
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIfnxYlIoVE
@redbearded
Nice..
Cool, but I could see my cats getting stuck in one of these....
@Brokinarrow that would add to the "move in mysterious ways" and draw even bigger crowds!
That's pretty badass. I'd love to have one of those and stare at it for hours and hours... Certainly more exciting then life in Houston.
my brain died when i saw the last one
@Wardy125
Yeah pretty crazy, I think it's basically setup like a very short crankshaft.
sour
Sick stuff
I looked, looked away...
Did I just divide by 0?
@MattsZ
Naw, you just took the limit as look approaches zero.
I thought kinetic sculptures were ones with perfectly balanced parts, so they would move on their own in response to wind or vibrations without any power?
Though, these are pretty awesome. :o
I wonder how much one would cost?
@Daru
That's one kind of kinetic sculpture, called mobiles. Really, though, any sculpture that moves is a kinetic sculpture. Some non-mobile kinetic sculptures of note include:
Marcel Duchamp's Bicycle Wheel http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?object_id=81631
Shab Levy's Gravitrams (a whole series) http://www.djspyhunter.com/blog/2006/08/15/gravitram-kinetic-sculptures/
And the moving spheres at the BMW museum http://www.pixelsumo.com/post/bmw-kinetic-sculpture
Bicycle Wheel isn't powered at all (an observer needs to move it), the Gravitrams have motors that lift the balls from the bottom of the track to the top, and the BMW piece has individual motors that move each sphere up or down depending on the shape they want to achieve. Super frickin' cool.
Uh oh... XBOX, law suit time.
@MrIgbo
Umm...its Kinetic, not Kinect...FAIL
@mopey connect + kinetic = Kinect
It's appropriate the song is about being dizzy since the camera work is so jumpy that I got motion sickness.
@ajwillys
I second that - it's great work but someone buy the dude a tripod!
HA! Reverse engineer that, all you KIRFers in China!
haha, trippy! especially the third one. lol.
This video would be 100% better with a tripod and a polarizing filter. I'm being a little nit-picky, though.
Am I the only one who thought that the middle scultpure looks artificially looped? It jumps at 1:13, 1:21, 1:29...even the white balance shifts exactly the same way every 8 seconds.
@shawnwaughgmailcom I see it too on a couple of them but not all of them, a slight whiff of shenanigans here?
Very cool.
Still, the fact that the cameraman couldn't hold still drove me mad while inspecting the sculptures!!
Ahhh...see I thought this was an xbox 360 related post...
@TGriffTTU WTF Me to...
Nice :-)
can we leave all the lame posts to gizmodo and report actual tech news? come on engadget. this belongs in ALT.
Love the whole wow effect, but seriously, that damn song... It's not even dizzy???
Is the guy an ex watchmaker?
... and does he eat other superhumans' brains to gain their powers?