La Macchina Botanica at Venice Biennale

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See more machines by Joseph Herscher here: http://www.josephherscher.com

A Rube Goldberg machine made at the Venice Biennale, 2011.

Constructed in 5 days with the help of 40 local kids, at the Greenhouse of the Venice Giardini.

Designed by Joseph Herscher, with construction assistance from Mauro Delley, Michaela Intra and Elisa Paulin.

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[P0lSS0N]

I'm jealous that I'm sitting on my computer doing nothing but visit random peoples youtube videos... watching so many people have a smile on their faces. Anywhoooo Thank You for the upload, and for the first uplaod you have done and the last one that you had uploaded a couple weeks ago. Thank you again! :D

[juan93223]

at 0:47 the ball start moving without being touched by the hammer...

[Giulia Rosso]

Actually the ball that starts without been touched is at 00:41. It s related to vibrations.It was real and it was a participative project in which Joseph involved 40 children at the public greenhouse of the Biennale gardens in Venice. It was just to deal with the fact that the creativity is something very simple and contaminant. Best from Venice

[ThePriLe1997]

Again at 1:24.

[ThePriLe1997]

0:44 and 1:24 The balls start on their own.

[Márta K.]

Egyszerű!

[Girom Christian Calica]

Still, vibration of the other balls caused the unexpected movement of the static balls.

[calonfire]

Physics is just applied Maths really.

[Girom Christian Calica]

Vibration caused the sudden, unpredicted movement of the balls. If math can explain it, physics can too.

[Juan Manuel Gonzalez Sardi]

1:35

The people at the bar just lost something amazing!!!

Unforgivable!

[roanmang]

0:15