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It is like a psuedo-science expo; Stuffs that looks like complicated machines are created using trash such as coke can, wires, pipes, turbine blades etc. It will have wires/tubes jumping around, connecting things unnecessarily. Such stuff which looks like machines will be very useful for sci-fi films.
Best looking and most convincing stuff gets the prize.
Kinetic sculptor
http://www.youtube....ZZU&feature=related
Related, but not the same thing. [VJW, Jan 25 2012]
Rube Goldberg accomplised this, too.
http://en.wikipedia...be_Goldberg_machine
[xandram, Jan 27 2012]
Yes, Rube Goldberg did have a kind of Heath Robinson quality.
http://en.wikipedia...wiki/Heath_Robinson
[spidermother, Jan 27 2012]
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So, "looks pretty, functionally useless." |
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Bill Gates beat you to it. |
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This was inspired from 'coke can jet engine' although those are serious and partially working attempts. |
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"Bring me the very expensive machine that goes PING!" |
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Shouldn't the category be “Art”? |
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SF6 can be used to give the impression of a "force field" of sorts. |
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I'll get my flux capacitor. |
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//Shouldn't the category be “Art”? // |
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Yes. But it is also related to technology. |
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I have a tuning fork coated in Schmaltz and sprinkled
with glitter. |
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What you do on your own in private is your own business. Please do NOT give in to the implulse to share. |
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//looks pretty// Windows? Well, de gustibus,
coloribus, et systemis operandorum, non est
disputandum. |
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//Real art is not a con// |
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Schmaltz is hard to find. I could not find any for sale
on line. |
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Few years back, there was a news about someone who sold his 5 year old sons "drawings" for $10k+! |
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// I detect a degree of dissimilation in your voice. // |
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No, what you detect is an intent to Assimilation in our voice. It's not quite the same thing. |
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