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Fischli Weiss - The Way Things Go

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  • This almost made me cry with pleasure. It is so brilliant!

  • One of the most poignant, beautiful and intricate parts of the piece, although I wish it included the part right before that with the piles of combustive chemical dust that turn different colors.

  • @Fromthistothisisthat

    other way around.

    i first saw this on "Alive From Off Center" when it first came out, at least 20 years ago.

  • This film was done in 1987 by artists Peter Fischli & David Weiss. The original length is about 30 minutes. I saw it in an art school class the 1st time about 1990 and later on public TV. You can buy a DVD for $20.

  • No. Mouse Trap was from the 1960s. This video is from the late 1980s. All are based on drawings by Rube Goldberg from the 1920s and '30s.

  • I think it does pre date the mouse trap but not sure!

  • Haha, I was being sarcastic! I remember the Honda ad too, at least they tied it in with the tagline: "isn't it nice when things just work." Yeah I thought there was more to it. I saw it at a museum, forget which one... But does this pre-date Mouse Trap???

  • And they promised they would only use their time travel machine for good!

  • I love the OK GO video, but just letting you know that they ripped this off. As did honda a few years back in a tv ad. the full length of this video is about 15 minutes long and its brilliant. props to F&W and also to OK GO.

  • They ripped off the OK Go video!!!!

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