Where Science Meets Art

[sartorias]

Anyone who has spent an hour (or more) standing in the withering heat of Las Vegas just to watch the Bellagio fountains will probably find this as exciting as I do.

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[estara]

I really like kinetic sculptures and they were very impressive and without computers you definitely couldn't do the water bubble ones, but I actually lust for the space and money of this kinetic artist, Reuben Margolin, who mostly does waveforms inspired by water, using pulleys, etc. http://vimeo.com/3001833

[estara]

Hmm, not really for his money: *I* want to have enough space and money to commission an artpiece by him and install it ^^.

[sartorias]

Oh, thank you for that link--those are just magnificent.

[estara]

I followed him to his site (linked from the vimeo video) and he's done more amazing stuff since. There's a Magic Wave installation in Switzerland which instead of two diagonal waves overlapping has four!! and they can raise it and lower it. He's got a few youtube movies of it linked from the site. The opening at the science center in Switzerland has a sort of new age theme ^^. And there's a wave he made by lowering and raising cylinders (I think he calls it polygonal wave). Very cool.

But I like his wood and string stuff best.

[sartorias]

I bookmarked for some more exploring, when I get snips of free time.