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Man Embraces Useless Machines, and Absurdity Ensues

Posted January 07, 2012 3:49 PM

From NYT > Technology:

Joseph Herscher, a 26-year-old computer programmer and kinetic artist, turned his Brooklyn apartment into a laboratory where he builds real-world Rube Goldberg machines.

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01/08/2012 5:24 AM

I like this guy's art. He deserves to be commissioned by a patron of the arts.....

It is the first in a series he calls Ecomachines, which will perform simple, energy-saving tasks in elaborately wasteful ways.

Sounds like some of the planet saving solutions being bandied about.

A commentary on the futility of complexity for its own sake.

Brilliant work.

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01/08/2012 1:33 PM

I'm from the ASPCA. Just wondering how hot that hair drier was.

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