BMW’s Kinetic Sculpture by ART+COM
July 7, 2008 - By Bobby Solomon - Category: Architecture & Art & Design & TransportationGood morning everyone, I hope you all had an awesome weekend. I had a really long, fun weekend, which culminated last night with two parties and way too much tequila, so I’m going to start out today with something amazing, but simple.
The video above was taken at the BMW Museum in Munich, which just opened a few weeks ago, of a kinetic sculpture created by the folks over at ART+COM. The kinetic sculpture is made up of 714 metal balls that “moves through a cycle of free abstractions and typical BMW vehicle forms.” It takes about a minute before the crazy stuff starts happening, but once it does it’s pretty damn incredible. I love that the metal balls can go from totally random, to undulating waves, to the shape of a car, that’s just insane to me. I also love how flawlessly fluid it all moves, it’s completely surreal. I watched the video while listening to Lonely Souls by UNKLE, it made for a fitting soundtrack.
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Bobby
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is the force on the balls Magnetic fields or strings?! I am pretty sure its magnetic fields due to the fluidity of it… If so… that is more than amazing… thats astounding… and I want to figure out how to make it work!
You can see the strings, or at least I can, haha…
Oh wow, that is sooooooooo amazing. Could only be improved by cutting out the sound on there and replacing it with some nice music.
Seriously. Wow.
you know in retrospect. I can see the strings too. I guess i was …. hoping. Its near impossible to get a magnetic field to take a shape… (which is why I thought to be astounding).
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this Sculpture is so great.
I’m not even gonna watch the video. But I’ll visit the BMW museum in a few days. It’s nice to live in Munich ;)
This is amazing ! Also i’ve wondered if it was strings or magnetic. I think it’s strings… Anyway, this is great.