David and I have been hard at work preparing for his TEDx Talk on Sept. 16th. Oodles of minutes have been shot for new videos and David has spent hours trying to pare down 35 years of discovery and inspiration into 18 minutes of talk. Significant portions of his work which were never captured in video before are now being recorded. Here is a short video collage displaying detail shots of six of his earliest reliable mechanisms.
Top Row (L to R) Anticipation, Wandering Asterisk, Serendipity
Bottom Row (L to R) Inventor Released, Tumbleweed, Crazy Eight
The keyword is reliable. During the early years of Wood That Works David designed many, many mechanisms. Only a few worked reliably and were expanded to become sculptures. Most didn't. I provide this as words of encouragement to those of you trying to create kinetic sculpture yourselves. It takes a lot of experimentation to understand mechanisms and their peculiarities. And even more to control it for creating patterns.
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