Pipe Dreams
The people who did this have entirely too much time on their hands...in a very cool way.
posted by Madeleine Robins at 8:47 AM
Wednesday, May 17, 2006
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- Name: Madeleine Robins
- Location: San Francisco
I'm the author of a bunch of books, including five Regency romances, a Marvel Comics superhero novel, The Stone War, a dark urban fantasy in which I blew up my home town, and Point of Honour and Petty Treason, the first two books in the adventures of Sarah Tolerance, Fallen Woman and Private Eye. I've also published a double-handful of SF and fantasy stories.
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3 Comments:
Heavens -- they now have a whole series of those. On DVDs.
From the samples, that one still seems to be the best, tho'.
---L.
That's a lovely site; everyone in our family enjoyed it.
It occurs to me that its appeal is largely, to use a surprising term, steampunk. A ball being launched from a tube to loft through the air, sound a tone, and rebound along a precisely-plotted arc into a receptacle is a bit, and the video deploys a great many of them, rapidly and in complex patterns, to produce meaning. The aesthetic effect is identical to that of contemplating a large steam-driven computer, seemingly clunky but precision engineered to an insane degree, carry out a highly complex operation. It could be done more easily a very different way, but one still wants to applaud the performance.
Musical Rube Goldbergism is how we summed it up around here.
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