Sentences with phrase «imagine rube»

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

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

The problem goes back to the earliest days of quantum mechanics and was formulated most famously by the Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger, who imagined a Rube Goldberg - type of quantum experiment with a cat.

Not exact matches

Likewise, LaBute's direction never rises above «competent,» and the noticeable lack of art direction makes the movie look cheap (it was clearly filmed in ordinary locations around Albuquerque, and one imagines the city rues the day it gave LaBute whatever tax breaks convinced him to shoot there, since he depicts the locals, almost without exception, as rubes).

I think of the Rube Goldberg machines built by engineering students in our makerspace, and I imagine the classroom furniture and prototypes being built by the students in my own Art and Tech elective class, projects that start with 3D models and prototypes and end in functional designs that are in use throughout the school.