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The Kinetic Wood Sculptor (priceonomics.com)
72 points by ryan_j_naughton on May 14, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments



"In 1992, David purchased 5MB of data space from his local Internet service provider, taught himself how to code a website, and put his designs on the web." I like his style! Smart guy and a true artist!


This guy is like the flip side of Matthias Wandel[1]

Very cool.

[1] http://woodgears.ca


After CS studies and looking at low level computing devices (physical as in stack machines or ideal like lambda calculus), I'm about to fall in love with clocks, gears and engines (like wankel's http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c3/Wankel_en...). As embodiment of loops, reminding me of quines and paradoxical combinators.


Lovely. Reminds me of these all-wooden clocks - http://bruceaitken-clockmaker.co.uk/




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