Sculpture #2

[Soñadora]

For the past month + I've been working on a commission for a sculpture that will be placed behind a bar in a new steampunk themed restaurant.

Had a lot of fun on this project.

[kimbottles]

For the past month + I've been working on a commission for a sculpture that will be placed behind a bar in a new steampunk themed restaurant.

Had a lot of fun on this project.

Good lord Rick!

Is there no end to your talents?

[LarryHoward]

Excellent. Looking forward to seeing it complete and in situ with the bar stocked and opened.

[Soñadora]

haha! Not sure about talent. That's just a partial snapshot of how my brain works

Still have a few more things to add. I'm building a mount for a little 4rpm gearmotor that will turn the whole thing.

interesting to note that all the bearings are 3D printed. Yes, they're plastic. We'll see how they hold up.

[Orestes Munn]

Very cool and fun, Rick.

Kinetic sculptures were a very special thing for me when I was a kid and I remember my mom taking us out of school a couple of times when new shows opened in town.

[SloopJonB]

I'd love to see you do some sort of Rube Goldberg kinetic sculpture - really silly and fun.

[JoeP]

I love it Rick. That's a fun piece.

[Cherie320]

Rick, golf on the shop channel? Nice art. Likey the red. Yes, very cool. Pat

[cap10ed]

Wind driven Whirlygigs have always capture my attention. Some modern clever ones out there.

[Tucky]

Congratulations Rick.

Anyone who likes this kind of thing needs to visit the MIT Art Museum (yes they have one) and the collection of Arthur Ganson's work.

Here is his website- http://www.arthurganson.com/pages/Sculptures.html

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gvpp4WaaGcU[/youtube]

[Soñadora]

cool stuff, Tucky

Going to install the motor tonight. My original motor wasn't cutting it. Hopefully I'll be posting a video of the thing moving.

[Jamie]

That's really cool Sonodara....I love these kinds of sculptures.

I've always liked this guy. Great show, great sculptures, great theme song.

http://www.secretlifeofmachines.com/

[Tucky]

As another aside, the Strandbeest sculptures of Theo Jansen are coming to the Peabody Art Museum and on August 22 one will be walking on Crane's Beach, if there is wind:-)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhE4n5x9fuE[/youtube]

[Soñadora]

It lives!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kStskrExynM[/youtube]

About 10 seconds into the video you see a flash. A pole transformer blew across the street. The irony is that just prior to this we were chasing some electrical gremlins. The outlet I originally had the motor in was only giving 84 volts. When we realized that and moved to a different outlet, the transformer blew shortly after. After all the problems we'd had trying to get this thing to work, my first thought was that I somehow had something to do with it.

[BeauV]

Clearly you blew the transformer, I hope you apologized and offered to replace it

That sculpture is REALLY COOL!!!

I could sit and drink and look at that thing for hours........ ....... ........ very cool!

[Slick470]

Very cool Rick.

[kimbottles]

Rick! You too are a MAESTRO!

Move over Bob, you got company!

[Soñadora]

drinking for hours is the goal

"Hey Bob, look at that one on the top. Is it moving?"

[BeauV]

drinking for hours is the goal

"Hey Bob, look at that one on the top. Is it moving?"

I'm with you on that all the way. I'm already trying to figure out the gear ratios from the video.

[Soñadora]

to get you started, here's the gearmotor I used:

https://www.grainger.com/product/DAYTON ... =P2IDP2PCP

look for 'nameplate RPM'

[Tucky]

Great to see it moving- congratulations.

Here is Ganson's take on gear ratios.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q-BH-tvxEg[/youtube]

[LarryHoward]

Great to see it moving- congratulations.

Here is Ganson's take on gear ratios.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q-BH-tvxEg[/youtube]

Cheating by cascading the same reduction set multiple times. Good engineering but lousy art....

[Tucky]

He isn't cheating, he is showing the grains of rice on a chessboard problem in another way. The sign next to it names the date that it was started and has been continually running from. I think it also mentions how many years it will take until the block at the other end makes one turn. It is a lot. What is fun is to see the motor and the first few sets happily spinning away and the motion just dyeing into dust covered no motion gears as you get down

[BeauV]

He isn't cheating, he is showing the grains of rice on a chessboard problem in another way. The sign next to it names the date that it was started and has been continually running from. I think it also mentions how many years it will take until the block at the other end makes one turn. It is a lot. What is fun is to see the motor and the first few sets happily spinning away and the motion just dyeing into dust covered no motion gears as you get down

Y'all really need to see the 10,000 year clock (currently under construction) or if you'd rather visit the Long Now Foundation. Now these folks have some wonderful gear trains.

http://longnow.org/clock/

[LarryHoward]

He isn't cheating, he is showing the grains of rice on a chessboard problem in another way. The sign next to it names the date that it was started and has been continually running from. I think it also mentions how many years it will take until the block at the other end makes one turn. It is a lot. What is fun is to see the motor and the first few sets happily spinning away and the motion just dyeing into dust covered no motion gears as you get down

I just see it as brutally functional without artistic merit. Certainly is an example of exponential theory but I'd prefer the same outcome with some artistic whimsy.