How This Guy Builds Mesmerizing Kinetic Sculptures | Obsessed | WIRED

How This Guy Builds Mesmerizing Kinetic Sculptures | Obsessed | WIRED

A self-taught artist with a background in physics, David C. Roy has been creating mesmerizing wooden kinetic sculptures for nearly 40 years. Powered solely through mechanical wind-up mechanisms, pieces can run up to 48 hours on a single wind.

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How This Guy Builds Mesmerizing Kinetic Sculptures | Obsessed | WIRED

50 Comments

  1. cbowmusik on May 18, 2022 at 7:37 am

    That’s brillant!

  2. 4145dudutis on May 18, 2022 at 7:38 am

    I can tell you there is perpetual energy fact.. In your lifetime it will never run out.. Gravity is perpetual.. It is free energy if you understand how to harness it..

  3. Ava Montera Rodriguez on May 18, 2022 at 7:38 am

    If you look and focus at each component individually, then it’ll start to make sense

  4. Rohaini Abd Rahman on May 18, 2022 at 7:43 am

    I have a pendulum clock, I still admire it, this can be a great wall deco.

  5. Thifal Raniah on May 18, 2022 at 7:43 am

    I want the Sky Quest one! :’

  6. Crusty Cobs on May 18, 2022 at 7:44 am

    Fantastic, love it

  7. David Bishop on May 18, 2022 at 7:44 am

    Perpetual motion is all around you.
    It is possible just not legal .

  8. Ringo Anselmo on May 18, 2022 at 7:46 am

    He looks like a serial killer

  9. Annkur Kumar on May 18, 2022 at 7:49 am

    Where and how to buy these kinectic sculptures in India??

  10. Носок Терминаторов on May 18, 2022 at 7:50 am

    Вот именно такими и должны быть украшения с использованием шестерней, а не неподвижной фигнёй приклеенной на клей, как это часто бывает.

  11. Wonback on May 18, 2022 at 7:51 am

    Real life ayatan sculpture

  12. Ronin03 on May 18, 2022 at 7:51 am

    IRL Ayatan sculptures
    #warframe

  13. 4145dudutis on May 18, 2022 at 7:53 am

    I love the sculptures is there A kit or blueprints to build one myself?

  14. matt howard on May 18, 2022 at 7:53 am

    add magnets

  15. Nitin Thakur on May 18, 2022 at 7:54 am

    Back here after 2 years

  16. ZN on May 18, 2022 at 7:54 am

    Amazing job

  17. Dorf Googlesteen on May 18, 2022 at 7:55 am

    Incorporate magnets into it and I bet you can get some kind of Perpetual Motion out of it

  18. walshy on May 18, 2022 at 7:57 am

    What a delightful video. Wow

  19. Cero powa on May 18, 2022 at 7:58 am

    Amazing

  20. Debi Jones on May 18, 2022 at 8:03 am

    BEYOND OUTSTANDING!!!!

  21. vinod kumar B on May 18, 2022 at 8:03 am

    Can we buy it?

  22. malayrojak on May 18, 2022 at 8:05 am

    He ought to get himself a wheel balancer…

  23. napeekapun pimtongnara on May 18, 2022 at 8:05 am

    I was really amazed by the math and engineering you designed.
    It is a beautiful modern novelty. Some of your sculptures can be really technologically advanced buildings.

  24. Jack Castro on May 18, 2022 at 8:05 am

    Grabi its so beautiful

  25. Allan Allan on May 18, 2022 at 8:07 am

    He’s mechanically hypnotising people… this can be made a movie about

  26. napeekapun pimtongnara on May 18, 2022 at 8:08 am

    You definitely need experience and an excellent brain.

  27. Ganesh Mohan on May 18, 2022 at 8:08 am

    Wow 💚

  28. LINUPHYSIO'S WORLD OF AMAZING VIDEOS on May 18, 2022 at 8:10 am

    Awesome…How can we buy these?

  29. 6miler on May 18, 2022 at 8:10 am

    Pretty cool 😎 although I can’t imagine he’d be too happy when the grandkids came over and just started messing with his creations lol

  30. roopamstudiopta on May 18, 2022 at 8:10 am

    Now I am 65 . I know little bit watch machinisam 45 years ago I was thinking why old people ( kings ) made a supper FAN out of kinetic energy or this method

  31. Mr Sardonicus on May 18, 2022 at 8:11 am

    Beautiful Wood !

  32. James Arnett on May 18, 2022 at 8:12 am

    This, to me, is what a genius is. Absolutely astounding.

  33. cryzz0n on May 18, 2022 at 8:13 am

    A small tip: like this video to keep getting lots of recommendations like this one. My feed is filled with hope, and that’s the fun side of YouTube! 🙏 Blessings 💗

  34. Lucas Guaraldo on May 18, 2022 at 8:13 am

    5:35 this one is my favorite, this would trip my friends out so much if i had it at my house, my dream is to have one.

  35. Liv on May 18, 2022 at 8:13 am

    So is not the guy who build it’s actually a couple, so why u only interviewed the man😕

  36. ゴジラ on May 18, 2022 at 8:18 am

    When you go and try to have a cup of coffee with your friend and leave with a f****** headache

  37. Peter F on May 18, 2022 at 8:20 am

    These are vertical mobiles.

  38. P Wh on May 18, 2022 at 8:21 am

    I’m afraid it just won’t do.. Swing a cat in his living room and you’d end up holding nothing but a severed tail.

  39. Helpful Gamer on May 18, 2022 at 8:24 am

    Are those…. Ayatan sculptures ?

  40. Vikram Antin on May 18, 2022 at 8:26 am

    A great mind and an artist!

  41. BIRUK FILM ENTERTAINMENT on May 18, 2022 at 8:26 am

    Beautiful

  42. Annonomous Me on May 18, 2022 at 8:27 am

    If only this video didn’t have miss annoying voice yattering over the interesting stuff

  43. ben fagerstrom on May 18, 2022 at 8:27 am

    On top of this guy’s massive skill as a maker, he also does cad with a TRACK PAD?

  44. Dorf Googlesteen on May 18, 2022 at 8:31 am

    I am completely mesmerised in love with these things good job Rory keep making them I wish I could afford one.

  45. WV591 on May 18, 2022 at 8:32 am

    Sure would have been nice to have these around back in the 70s and 80s when ounce of Columbian gold was only 20 tops.

  46. Daquan Benson on May 18, 2022 at 8:32 am

    I’m so fascinated with this that this is definetly something i’d have in my house. I’d make my entire house a maze or just some kind of mind bending house puzzle

  47. Joey Ho on May 18, 2022 at 8:32 am

    A Beautiful Couple…..❤

  48. Geof Ingram on May 18, 2022 at 8:32 am

    he copied his wife’s idea and turn it into business? That’s so Facebook

  49. Mario Pacheco on May 18, 2022 at 8:33 am

    There’s no limits to the imagination of the mind. It’s so beautiful when creativity is formed into art.

  50. Rohaini Abd Rahman on May 18, 2022 at 8:34 am

    Make classes and teach others

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