Mechanical Heads

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Mechanical Heads

• Inspirational Artist Rube Goldberg
• Waverly-Shell Rock Sr. High
• Art Explorations

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RUBE GOLDBERG
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RUBE GOLDBERG

• Rube Goldberg (1883-1970) was a Pulitzer Prize
  winning cartoonist, sculptor, and author.
• Reuben Rube Goldberg was born in San Francisco,
  on the 4th of July 1883. After graduating
  University of California Berkeley, with a degree
  in engineering, Rube went on to work as an
  engineer for the City of San Francisco Water and
  Sewers Department.

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RUBE GOLDBERG

• Rube, an avid cartoonist, decided after six
  months, engineering was not his calling. He
  shifted gears and instead became an office boy in
  the sports department of a San Francisco
  newspaper.
• In this capacity, he began to submit drawings and
  cartoons to the editor, until he was finally
  published. Success was immediate, and Rube soon
  moved from San Francisco to New York where he
  began working on drawing daily cartoons. This led
  to syndication, and the rest is history.

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RUBE GOLDBERG

• Rube was a beloved national figure as well as an
  often-quoted radio and television personality
  during his sixty-year professional career.
• Best known for his INVENTIONS, Rubes early years
  as an engineer informed his most acclaimed works.
  
• A Rube Goldberg contraption an elaborate set of
  arms, wheels, gears, handles, cups, and rods, put
  in motion by balls, canary cages, pails, boots,
  bathtubs, paddles, and live animals takes a
  simple task and makes it extraordinarily
  complicated.

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RUBE GOLDBERG

• The promise and pitfalls of modern technology
  make Rube Goldbergs inventions even more
  relevant now than when they were originally
  created.
• From think-tanks in Silicon Valley, the New York
  Times, and Sunday mornings Meet the Press,
  hardly a day goes by without the name Rube
  Goldberg being invoked. In fact, Rube Goldberg is
  an adjective in Websters Dictionary.

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RUBE GOLDBERG

• A documentary film of the Rube Goldberg Machine
  Contest is set for release in 2009. A coffee
  table book of Rubes work is being published by
  Abrams in 2010 along with a calendar and
  childrens pop-up book.
• At a time when the U.S. is looking to inspire
  young minds, Rube Goldbergs legacy represents
  the best in American innovation, humor and
  unconventional thinking an inspiring model for
  us all.

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RUBE GOLDBERGSimplified Pencil Sharpener
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RUBE GOLDBERGDodging Bill Collectors
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RUBE GOLDBERGPicture snapping machine
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RUBE GOLDBERGPeeling Potatoes.
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RUBE GOLDBERG - Review

• The legendary cartoonist, graduate engineer, and
  Pulitzer-Prize winner Rube Goldberg, became
  famous for his humorous drawings of incredibly
  complex machines performing very simple tasks.
• In the words of Rube Goldberg, his machines were
  a symbol of mans capacity for exerting maximum
  effort to achieve minimal results.

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Examples
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RUBE GOLDBERG

• W-SR Student Examples

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Student Examples
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Student Examples
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Student Examples
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Things to incorporate into drawing.

• The 5 senses (see, hear, smell, taste, feel)
• Various mechanical activities (chewing,
  breathing, swallowing, hearing, seeing, etc)
• Brain functions (cognitive functions)
• Things you Remember (memory bank?)
• Survival functions
• Interests and hobbies that are in your head. What
  type of things fill your thoughts?

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Things to incorporate into drawing.

• Power source?
• How do you see?
• How do you hear?
• How do you chew/swallow/taste/talk?
• Ventilation nose mouth lungs?
• How does you brain communicate with the rest of
  your body?
• Try to think of creative ways to solve these
  issues!
• CONSIDER MAKING A WEB FOR THIS!!

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Parts of Your Brain and What They Do!
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Process

• Start with thumbnail sketches on newsprint
• I will draw your profile (12x18) using the
  overhead and white paper.
• Continue to develop ideas and decide how they
  link together inside your head.
• Transfer your sketching onto the profile paper.
• Reinforce drawing with details, shading, etc.

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Video-Honda Motor Company

• AllPhysics.wmv
• This to shall pass