Reuben Margolin's kinetic wave sculptures

Kinetic artist Reuben Margolin was featured on a recent episode of MAKE: television. He uses salvaged wood, metal, cardboard, and other recycled materials to create massive mechanical wave sculptures. Absolutely incredible work.

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Chas44

Now THAT is truly a Wonderful Thing! Bravo!
montauk

I love how simply and good-naturedly he describes his work. Beautiful stuff.
Graty

O__O

Wow. A great example of the whole being greater than the sum of its cardboard, plywood and polyethylene terephthalate string.
Dedalus

ur right – he’s like an excited lil kid – i wanna be like him when i grow up!!!!!!!
Takuan

I have this vision of a vast, animated wireframe scene of whole, complex characters…
cszostek

That was beautiful. Great way to end a Friday.
theWalrus

beautiful and amazing
Anonymous

no doubt in order to get those installations paid for, they had to embroider it with all kinds of pretentious sounding boilerplate…but his thinking is so beautiful and simple “I just thought it would be really cool to…”, and that’s all it needs to be. he’s like a big kid, and bravo for him.
Blinde Schildpad

That is so pretty! Reminds me of the Strandbeesten by the dutch artist Theo Jansen.
Takuan

THAT’S who I remembered! Thanks!
http://www.ted.com/talks/theo_jansen_creates_new_creatures.html
sciencemike

@ 16 I completely agree. No post-modernist, deconstructionist artistic mumbo-jumbo! He thinks waves are beautiful so he makes them. That simplicity does not take away from the complexity and beauty of his work.
D3

Beautiful stuff! Thanks so much for sharing.
Boeotian

that is truly amazing. the movements are so fluid. awesome.
Anonymous

OMG. That’s awesome.
I’ve always said math is beautifull.
Wonder if he does small scale waves, I’d like to have one on my desk.
Micah

That rickshaw he used to pick up parts from his neighbor was also something he made. This guy rules.
teufelsdroch

seems like this guy would totally dig quantum carpets:
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/print/133
Anonymous

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Certhas

Marvelous!

Is there anywhere to find out what music they used? Or does anyone happen to know what in particular the first one was?

c
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@ #14 CERTHAS– sounds like some new interpretation of Stravinsky’s “Le Sacre du Printemps”, that they maybe mixed over some minimalist marimba music (Steve Reich perhaps).