I couldn't help posting this amazing clip off You Tube. Its one of many presenting the gorgeous ingenuity of the Wintergaten Marble Machine. Made with 2000 marbles, which appear to be first loaded up like a Sekiden, it goes on to play a rather catchy four minute melody! Its mesmerising!
The machine has been built by the Roman Polanski-like Martin Molinand the piece has been beautifully filmed and edited by Hannes Knutsson. Seven and half milllion You Tubers have enjoyed it already!
What do you think readers and have you ever made a machine?
very cool indeed. this reminds me of the real life version of those early CGI videos showing fantastical music machines
ReplyDeleteThat is absolutely -magnificent- to see. What it reminds me of is the ball bearing maze track in the Evoluon exhibition when I was young.
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Made by students of TU Delft iirc, it had brother and me completely spellbound. And prompted us (often over the years) to build something similar out of cardboard taped to the large window of our play corner to have marbles fly off ramps into funnels and down corkscrew bends. And later in life I built some more for my young sons.
The Evoluon was a flying saucer-shaped science museum by Dutch electronics company Philips btw, long since closed, sadly. Bit like the London Science Museum's children's gallery on a large scale, combined with what was then very futuristic technolgy like video phones and whatnot. See this film for an impression: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWz52-expO8
Best -- Paul
fabulous those Paul. The maze is like watching Tron but with marbles! Evoluon looked superb, like GMs Futurama. Such a cool expo. What a shame its closed.
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