The BMW Museum's kinetic sculpture takes your brain to another dimension
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
v3xx @ Jul 6th 2008 3:11AM
powerful magnets and computers or fishing line and grey beads?
WaffleMatt @ Jul 6th 2008 3:15AM
They're suspended on strings, clearly. You can see them in the photo.
Rob @ Jul 6th 2008 3:17AM
If you would have checked the video, you would have clearly seen the wires holding the beads up.
But then you would not have had your first post I guess.
v3xx @ Jul 6th 2008 3:30AM
i was making a point that its not a big deal to have balls hanging on strings moving up and down. use some magnets and computers to control metal balls and it'll be really interresting. man people here are quick to shoot someone down. i guess people like you could never confront someone in real life.
Andir3.0 @ Jul 6th 2008 5:51AM
Check out the video around 2:10 .. you'll see them.
paul @ Jul 6th 2008 6:47AM
1 - Re-read your initial post and consider it from someone else's point of view who does not know the rest of the thoughts in your head. See the question mark at the end? That means that you are asking which method was used.
1 - Learn how to use the shift key. Lazy implies a lack of intelligence.
3 - "i guess people like you could never confront someone in real life." A childish response and Irrelevant in this context. If you are unable to cope with non-complimentary responses then don't post.
dale_nx26 @ Jul 6th 2008 8:03AM
wow you guys are intense.
Tom Moitie @ Jul 7th 2008 10:06AM
@Paul, Re-read your post, your second point about intelligence has a hilarious error.
CaberetVoltaire @ Jul 6th 2008 10:02AM
Uhh.. it's just a comment Paul.
and maybe he doesnt want to use the shift key its not like we're typing an essay
Really cool display BMW.
Khris @ Jul 6th 2008 11:07AM
@ Paul
As Tom pointed out......BEST COMMENT EVER!
Giving someone shit and then screwing up yourself! Priceless!!
Nomi @ Jul 6th 2008 11:20AM
Maybe he just wants to make 2 important points but he just can't rank them, but the 3rd point is not so important, enough to get a ranking of 2. Where you see an idiot...I see brilliance.
Khris @ Jul 6th 2008 11:45AM
I see two idiots now.
lowdef @ Jul 6th 2008 1:44PM
its as easy as 1 1 3
urbanpeasant @ Jul 6th 2008 1:55PM
The numbers refer to the posts, not to the order of the comments.
Khris @ Jul 6th 2008 2:22PM
Yeah......cuz that's obvious!
Mikey @ Jul 6th 2008 2:24PM
Paul,
Your name is a noun, is it not? You should try capitalizing the P...
MMalecky @ Jul 6th 2008 3:50PM
Internet:
SERIOUS BUSINESS.
AJ @ Jul 7th 2008 11:23AM
Awww man I had my hopes up there for a while. Damn.
Chris @ Jul 7th 2008 11:46AM
Paul
"Lazy implies a lack of intelligence"
Non sequitur logical fallacy. Your conclusion is based on a false premise that laziness is related to intelligence. If you look at the contraposition, negating the terms and stating the reciprocal, your statement reads "intelligent implies not lazy". That clearly makes no sense because it is possible to be intelligent AND lazy.
DorianGrey @ Jul 7th 2008 8:20PM
@Paul
Face!
thedesolate1 @ Jul 8th 2008 11:45AM
No actually its Magneto holding the metal beads up...duh!!!
Matthew C @ Jul 11th 2008 10:27AM
Ahh... another example of a completely irrelevant sequence of replies.
Josh @ Jul 11th 2008 2:08PM
HEY EURAKARTE
INSULT
RETORT
COUNTER-RETORT
QUESTIONING OF SEXUAL PREFERENCE
SUGGESTION TO SHUT THE FUCK UP
NOTATION THAT YOU CREATE A VACUUM
RIPOSTE
ADDON RIPOSTE
COUNTER-RIPOSTE
COUNTER-COUNTER RIPOSTE
NONSENSICAL STATEMENT INVOLVING PLANKTON
RESPONSE TO RANDOM STATEMENT AND THREAT TO BAN OPPOSING SIDES
WORDS OF PRAISE FOR FISHFOOD
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND ACCEPTENCE OF TERMS
Down @ Jul 6th 2008 3:12AM
I guess that is one way of distracting us from high petrol prices.
ShaunAlfonso @ Jul 6th 2008 3:23AM
Energy is expensive. Get over it.
NG @ Jul 6th 2008 7:21AM
indeed it's calming, i think i can sit there the whole day and watch
Abuzar Baloach @ Jul 6th 2008 7:53AM
The Sun gives me free energy every day.
greybaby @ Jul 6th 2008 9:40AM
we get all of our energy from the sun
notYou @ Jul 6th 2008 11:22AM
ShaunAlfonso: the politics that limit/prevent us from acquiring energy freely _make_it_ expensive, the material and the extracation of it is relatively cheap.
Example: A gallon of milk produced locally costs about $3.50, a gallon of gas extracted/processed/shipped/refined/delivered from a 3rd world war-torn instable part of the planet to my back yard costs $4.00. Think how much that milk would be if politicians said "oh, it's illegal for you to get that domestically, it must be imported from the most socially unstable and politically volatile areas of the planet".
Ex2. see all the "Petrol has cost us the equiv of $8US in Europe for the past 2 decades!" posts everytime Americans complain about gas increases in the states - what the Euros don't realize (astoundingly) is that they pay massive higher amounts due to taxes, not because of the cost of the resource. But then, that's how semi-/pseudo-/and real socialist countries work...
Enjoy.
Motoken @ Jul 6th 2008 1:20PM
lol that's what i was thinking,
they try to distract us from their incompetence to produce gas free cars.
ricardjorg @ Aug 19th 2008 11:24PM
to notYou:
im European (with pride), and pay for ultra-expensive petrol.. but what can i do? my coutry has taxes so high that, most of the stuff that sells for one price in other european countries, sells 30% more in mine..
the one thing i can do is to watch you american cry-babies that complain about the price of the fuel (that is much lower than in post parts of the planet), about the inexistence of free healthcare and about the whole coutry stupidity.. and after watching this i laugh.. which is good, as the main purpose of your coutry is to entertain people
if you take a moment to think, you'll see that the european cars run on much less fuel than american ones.. when we look at the engine sizes and mpg of your cars, we just freak out.. but we say: oh, why would the americans buy economic cars? they don't care about the planet. they're mostly just dumb people who just like to complain for everything.. wha wha wha
i just can't believe how the smart people can live there.. i guess they don't know any better
now come tell me about how countries work
grrr
Fred @ Jul 6th 2008 3:14AM
I think I'll show this to my lady when I try to put the moves on her tonight. Oh yeah.
Jeremy K. @ Jul 6th 2008 3:15AM
Nothing like low res youtube videos to set the mood.
Handsome Ian @ Jul 6th 2008 5:50AM
works for xtube...
Nando @ Jul 6th 2008 9:17PM
This sounds like porno music...
GatgetMan @ Jul 6th 2008 11:50PM
Your lady would find that video hot... Must have your balls on a string...
Fred @ Jul 7th 2008 5:14AM
@Gadgetman: not up on a string... just waving around in the air... rhythmically.
I know you didn't want to imagine that. It's called aversion therapy.
sam arieta @ Jul 6th 2008 3:31AM
Still looks really cool not worth the flight to Munich though lol
interfaceinterface @ Jul 6th 2008 4:12AM
ART+COM
http://www.artcom.de/index.php?lang=en&option=com_acstartseite&Itemid=110
loosely_coupled @ Jul 6th 2008 3:40AM
That's incredible! The end of the video is the best part when they form the shape of a car... I wonder who the artist is who designed it
Shaun @ Jul 6th 2008 10:04AM
It looks like a Z4 to me, or were you asking who designed the entire suspended balls apparatus?
austin @ Jul 6th 2008 3:45PM
the Z4 was designed by chris bangle. i dont know the genius that designed this
footpowder @ Jul 8th 2008 4:26PM
the sculpture looks like it must be by Elias Crespin.
If people think synchronizing about a thousand stepper motors to create 3-d forms is non-trivial, maybe they ought to give it a shot.
BrianS @ Jul 6th 2008 3:41AM
This is brilliant. BMW has such a clear understanding of their brand, and what it entails, that it seems effortless.
EdgeOne @ Jul 6th 2008 8:26PM
Now if they could only reclaim that distinctive BMW look instead of appearing to be a Toyota Camry. Their cars just don't stand out like they used to (in my opinion).
xdfgf @ Jul 6th 2008 3:53AM
Love the 80s porn movie music
Tony @ Jul 6th 2008 10:46AM
Interesting fact: 80's porn music is also the basis for the soundtrack of "How It's Made"
squished18 @ Jul 8th 2008 9:33AM
I wouldn't know. I've never seen "How It's Made".
gabe @ Jul 6th 2008 4:00AM
can't wait to visit the museum...
BMW Owners - check in!
330ci
feelmo @ Jul 14th 2008 5:47PM
fail