Sentences with phrase «rube goldberg-esque»

Now, humans having finally realized that there are unintended consequences to fossil fuel burning, are discussing how to continue using such Neanderthal energy technologies, while throwing up more pollutants or rigging up space - based Rube Goldberg contraptions to counteract their ill effects.

Some look like a biologist's take on Rube Goldberg contraptions, others like nebula or slides covered with paramecium.

As a complement to the kinetic sculptures in our gallery exhibition «A Walk Through the Cosmos,» this program of short films is inspired by the whimsy of Rube Goldberg's surreal

In addition, Fabian's «Contraption» series adopts the stylings of Rube Goldberg machines to reflect his observation of societal constructs and its effect on poor and working class communities.

The roster of alumni and faculty is a panoply of the best in American art and photography including Richard Diebenkorn, Manuel Neri, Robert Motherwell, Mark di Suvero, Victor Moscoso, Annie Leibovitz, Dorothea Lange, David Ireland, Rube Goldberg, Jerry Garcia, Nathan Oliveira, Richard Shaw, Minor White, Elmer Bischoff, Beniamino Bufano, Mark Rothko and Enrique Chagoya.

Cheng works in sculpture and drawing, creating intriguing Rube Goldberg - like installations that she calls «incubators for history, memory and reflections on the physical and abstract self.»

In her first Chelsea show since joining Andrea Rosen Gallery last year, Mika Rottenberg will premiere Bowls Balls Souls Holes, her latest video charting fantastical, Rube Goldberg - like systems that employ a magical realist sense of logic to create allegories for the way things go, to borrow a phrase from Fischli / Weiss.

These large - scale projects combine diverse objects such as antique maps, scientific equipment, Rube Goldberg cartoons, Hudson River School landscapes, and Shaker furniture with new works of international contemporary art.

This Sunday marks the foundation's latest unveiling: a retrospective of the late sculptor Jason Rhoades, who, before his death in 2006 at 41, was known for creating bombastic, socially conscious installations with an irreverent, Rube Goldberg-esque potpourri of media, from car parts to dried food.

His recent works reveal a fascination with Rube Goldberg machines, Andy Warhol and The Factory, Schrodinger's Cat, and quantum equations.

The installations reference dynamic systems and models, such as flowcharts, Rube Goldberg machines and astronomical orreries.

When you first step into Greg Smith's installation at Susan Inglett Gallery, the artist's stunning material sensibility overshadows any realization that what you see are actually the reconfigured trappings, ruins, and byproducts of an unusual Rube Goldberg machine.

Rube Waddell has just the theme song for that self - help group, Justin: http://www.rubewaddell.org/media/mov/herestoyou.html

Reminiscent of a Rube Goldberg machine, the purposefully complex device epitomizes Taylor's droll wit and purposefully a-logical methodology.

Yet Friedman wasn't a rube.

It's a Rube Goldberg contraption that aims to shed light on the larger system of the universe, evoking both transcendence and disturbance, a combination that I would come to recognize in many of Askevold's works.

MIKA ROTTENBERG The anxious, Rube Goldberg — like systems of the Argentine - born artist's videos get at the squalid magic of capitalism.

Its clanking can not, in any way, be described as tuneful, but the sounds produced by Hawkinson's machines don't matter nearly as much as their delightfully arduous Rube Goldberg methods.

In the much loved 1987 film, «The Way Things Go,» Fischli and Weiss meticulously construct a 100 - foot long sculpture of everyday objects set to orchestrate a massive cause and effect performance of crafted chaos in the flavor of a giant Rube Goldberg machine.

She answered, «You rube!

As a complement to the kinetic sculptures in our gallery exhibition «A Walk Through the Cosmos,» this program of short films is inspired by the whimsy of Rube Goldberg's surreal machines.

While he may have been a peripheral figure in the art world of the Forties and Fifties, he was no rube.

Imagine a Rube Goldberg steeped not in engineering but in Jung, or Klee's twittering machine left out in the rain.

For a full half hour, the video follows a series of Rube Goldberg-esque objects and constructions as they activate one another in a painstaking, yet mesmerizing, sequence of quixotic events, which range from rolling tires, to flaming puddles of slowly leaking liquid, to balloons bursting with foaming soap.

It's a sandbox game, allowing you to join objects together in a variety of ways to create awesome constructions or build genius Rube Goldberg machines.

Personally I think the worst thing to ever happen to the Zelda franchise was the insistence of some rube in Japan that all the games could be organized into sensible timelines (the plural necessitated by time travel, which, ugh.)

One moment, players are choosing their next trial from a Super Mario Bros. 3 - like map, then the next instant they are trying to eliminate a spiteful scientist through a series of Rube Goldberg - styled events.

As Polygon reported earlier today, the trailer for the game shows a cartoon of the game's titular hero Alex putting together a Rube Goldberg - eque machine as well as actual gameplay footage.

Our own people have already built some pretty complex stuff, like retro arcade games or huge Rube Goldberg machines, and we've developed even more logic toys since then.

In Crazy Machines VR players will be challenged with Rube Goldberg machine puzzles specifically designed and optimized for VR.

In this cartoon game the player creates an almost Rube Goldberg-esque fighting robot and battles other players creations.

If the average Super Mario Maker player is more interested in challenging platformer levels than in Rube Goldberg machines or art exhibitions, the Makers who focus on designing platforming courses will rise to the top of the rankings.

Usually they're part of a Rube Goldberg machine, which this game makes fun of quite a bit.

Build your very own Rube Goldberg machine with One Hundred Ways.

The game features Rube Goldberg machines with puzzles designed and optimised specifically for VR, and if you can't quite work out to do there is a rather grumpy robot to offer advice.

There's also the new Contraptions mode that allows you to build your own Rube Goldberg machines.

Old Sins, like all the other games in the series, is heavily inspired by Rube Goldberg machines.

Just about any part of the level can be connected to anything else within a tight range, so the solutions get increasingly experimental in a sort of Rube Goldberg machine way.

The wide selection of death traps, the main attraction of the game, is wickedly funny to mess with, as you gradually transform a corridor into a Rube Goldberg stomping ground that in turn transforms googly - eyed orcs into piles of roasted meat and useful coins.

I mean lots of explosions; it was like a Rube Goldberg machine that ran on explosions.

You'd spend 20 minutes piecing together a needlessly complex Rube Goldberg mouse trap, only to watch all...

Your test vehicle will get stuck at a crucial point or launch too far off a ramp, fouling up your Rube Goldberg scheme.

That Rube Goldberg machine requires you to assume, of course, that IHG Rewards won't devalue again before your plans come to fruition!

Sometimes it just seems like one big Rube Goldberg device (Sigh... those of you who don't know what a Rube Goldberg device is — it's a complicated machine with lots of moving parts designed to perform a simple task.

God, all in all, just look at any specific TBTF bank and it really just looks like one great bastard of a Rube Goldberg contraption...

On 15 June 2011, Sony released the first in a series of five videos titled «Two Will», promoting and featuring the Tablets in an elaborately designed Rube Goldberg Machine.

Which can in my experience be defined either as «carefully and lovingly hand crafted,» or «a rushed sloppy knock off because the rube buyers won't know or care.»

For example, there is a giant (I imagine Rube Goldberg-esque) machine in a UPS center in the Midwest.

One of the sad ironies of integration was the demise of strong institutions such as the Negro Leagues — this book brings figures like Rube Foster, Josh Gibson and Satchel Paige back to life in stunning color.

Ever hear of a guy named Rube Goldberg?