A Previous Rube Goldberg Machine Video

Related to the OK Go video I posted yesterday, the fantastic Brain Pickings posted today about other examples Rube Goldberg Machines. (These complex chain reactions are know as such named after an American cartoonist and inventor, and in 1931 “the Merriam–Webster dictionary adopted the word “Rube Goldberg” as an adjective defined as accomplishing something simple through complex means.”)

Brain Pickings says, “But where its use in visual storytelling really originated is a little-known Swiss film from 1987 by director duo Peter Fischli and David Weis, titled Der Lauf der Dinge (The Way Things Go). In it, an incredible chain reaction of common household objects — tea pots, tires, ladders, trash bags, shoes, soap — unfolds over 29 minutes and 45 seconds across 100 feet of meticulously arranged ramps, swings and surfaces.”