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Unread 04-13-2015, 10:02 PM
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Default Starr Kempf Kinetic sculpture

https://youtu.be/8EUCUtDjYbU

https://youtu.be/jdjdGjfJ-bA

https://youtu.be/rU9hoBjlcsE
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Sharon,

I started reading up on the artist and his legacy. What a strange story: http://www.csindy.com/coloradospring...nt?oid=1119258

Truly weird stuff: http://cosweathervanes.tripod.com/Kempf-Legacy.html

Beauty and human craziness, all jumbled together...

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Exactly so, beauty and craziness. I saw these on TV the other day and these videos don't do them justice. I wish I could find some better ones showing their motion. Some spin in two directions at once. All of this got me thinking of the Chronophage which is a clock in Cambridge:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHO1JTNPPOU
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