Kinetic Sculptures!

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 Zenobia sent us this fantastic article about kinetic sculptures & I did a little more research into some of the artists .... sooooo fun! We made sure the engineers were here today -- even though we missed Zenobia, who brought us the idea! 


U-Ram Choe's Una Lumino from 2008 -- see links to his astounding work below! 


The article Z found with many wonderful kinetic artists -- link -- 


Anthony Howe: a closer look at his copper face wind machine art -- link -- 

Anthony Howe: large scale works -- link -- 


Derek Hugger website -- link -- 

Derek Hugger mechanical wooden marble machine -- link -- 

Derek Hugger, Colibri, a better look at the Hummingbird sculpture -- link -- 


David Roy, How to Make a Kinetic Sculpture -- link -- 


Lasvit, glass artists with tons of their work & how they does it -- link -- 

Lasvit the glass collective, video -- link -- 

Lasvit the glass artist collective, another video -- link -- 


U-Ram Choe, a video of the master's work and life -- you may want to speed through some of it but wowwwww!!!! -- link -- 

U-Ram Choe, New Urban Species Exhibition -- link -- 

U-Ram Choe, Kinetic Light Sculptures -- link -- 

U-Ram Choe, examples of his work (these are static photos and our detectives (YOU!) will want to look up each one to see them in motion, but they're really lovely to see all at once) -- link -- 


Theo Jansen's Strandbeest in video! -- link -- We all decided we would runnnnn if we saw these beach-combing monsters gliding along! 

Theo Jansen's Strandbeest, another video -- link -- 

Theo Jansen's wind-powered sculptures, short video (some overlap) -- link -- 


 Some fun last minute exhibits of kinetic art -- the first one is especially enjoyable -- link -- 










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