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A system of sculptures that is constantly on the brink of collapse. My intention was to capture and sustain the exact moment of impending catastrophe and endlessly repeat it.

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  • Emanuel Strömgren 3 years ago
    That was cool! But I didn't really understand the, well, the meaning of the movie, but it was nice although!
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  • Matthew Joseff plus 3 years ago
    Very cool
  • Cheryl Cohen 3 years ago
    Very cool. I could watch it all day. Its like banging my head against the wall
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  • Kyle Lowe plus 3 years ago
    Brilliant! Nice social commentary. If that's what it is...
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  • Dean Lewis 3 years ago
    It was entertaining.
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  • Patrick Satterfield 3 years ago
    Nice. It reminds me of the Steven Wright joke that goes something like, "You know that feeling when you are leaning back in your chair and you lean back just a little too far and you just catch yourself before falling? I feel like that all the time."
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  • Julien 3 years ago
    Hey, I love this setup, I really feel some "surge of emergency" each time one of the machines knocks...
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  • Glenn (aka Avene) 3 years ago
    That's great! Very funny to watch
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  • Ian Vogel 3 years ago
    this is our society. nice one
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  • Sasha Fornari plus 3 years ago
    brilliant work. thanks for sharing :)
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  • cyphaflip 3 years ago
    hammer ftw!
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  • Spudgun 3 years ago
    I don't know whether there's a metaphor at work here or not; nor do I care. I just think it's a F+++++g brilliant and innovative piece of photography. Bravo!
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  • Richard Huntington 3 years ago
    Interesting!!!
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  • Jay Purcell 3 years ago
    Cool.
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  • Bee Emtee 3 years ago
    I get it, and I like it... Sort of surrealism in motion.
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  • Kyle Shields 3 years ago
    Neat!
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  • Derrick 3 years ago
    That is amazing. I would have loved to see this in person.
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  • kahve 3 years ago
    nice!
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  • Tom Eriksen 3 years ago
    Art! The long build-up before the hammer falls gave my mind lots of time to anticipate the outcome. You tell yourself this is all mathematics applied to mechanics. The artist have thought this over. Cool.... But when the hammer hits the board and it starts toppling over I get this feeling in my stomach, like I want to reach out and stop it from falling. Reptile brain - Logic 1-0
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  • Pila Rusjan 3 years ago
    all this edgy stuff remind me of rebecca horn's mashines.
    I like it! :)
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  • Vormplus plus 3 years ago
    Like the idea. Nice work.
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  • William Hall 3 years ago
    Great feeling in the pit of my stomach as 'the machine' almost fell over. Thanks. Visceral art via video.
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  • steve 3 years ago
    that is so on the brink, i'm impressed
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  • Curtis Yee 3 years ago
    Hmmm, I've heard about this in my car once....
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  • Atnas 3 years ago
    I didn't get the deeper meaning, but very nice indeed
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  • Santo W plus 3 years ago
    Very clever! How long did it take you to "tune" them?
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  • Oscarh Ortega 3 years ago
    That's just how my country works! it keeps standing miracously after being hit so many times.

    Do the machines get just to the point before falling? cuz it feels like they could have gone a little further.
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  • In my country they subsidise people who come up with such ideas! Nice work!
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  • Matt Rebelo 3 years ago
    What an awesome, original idea! I love it!
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  • vamapaull 3 years ago
    Interesting idea, it makes me feel like something it's about to crush at some point...
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  • Dan Valentine plus 3 years ago
    Great. It's like you're cheering so much for the hammer and yet the structure is screaming "Nooooooo!"
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  • nic 3 years ago
    Que coisa, dá uma sensação de que vai cair, mas não cai! Haha. É um vídeo bem awesome. It's diferente. Pretty Cool.
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  • Stevo Welsh 3 years ago
    very intersting.... but who ever built these has ALOT of time on there hands :P
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  • will Anderson 3 years ago
    those sculptures would drive me insane
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  • Max Lampin 3 years ago
    this is art!
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  • Ben NCM 3 years ago
    You could have done so much more with this.
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  • Two Buds 3 years ago
    Love it, simple and poignant!
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  • Logan Reynolds plus 3 years ago
    I liked that so much!
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  • Kyle Stebbins 3 years ago
    I love this. Was this on display to the public or made solely for a film? I hope both.
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  • kaspars 3 years ago
    really entertaining! made me smile. :) great idea!
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  • Julian Battelli 3 years ago
    good idea, but they did'nt crashed soo I'm dissapointed
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  • run 3 years ago
    This is the balance
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  • Alex Miller 3 years ago
    I will never be able to do something this awesome in all of my life.
  • Dale Storer 3 years ago
    that...is why you fail.
    (well, if you 'do' fail or something ^_^)
  • garrettOverheul 3 years ago
    I know what you mean. well said.
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  • Tom Mallan 3 years ago
    Movie and sculptures alike are very well done. Mesmerizing, but short enough to leave us wanting more.
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  • brian durkin 3 years ago
    very original. good idea.
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  • Tribalwind 3 years ago
    creative, and apropos to our times!
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  • Brown 3 years ago
    some bizarre comments here eh?
    I like the work
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  • Andy Rydzewski 3 years ago
    fantastic! great art piece!
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  • Danijel Šivinjski 3 years ago
    cool ... nice staff
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  • Matthew Carrozo 3 years ago
    this makes me feel warm inside.
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  • pastol 3 years ago
    Simplistic, but the tension is incredible.
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  • Steve Calderon 3 years ago
    So awesome! Like existentialist robots!
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  • Paul Cooper 3 years ago
    Very very nice :) that is literally on the edge!
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  • Jose Gaspar plus 3 years ago
    Very Good!
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  • Nick Camm 3 years ago
    Vertigo.
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  • Ian Gutierrez 3 years ago
    cool?
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  • kwelwater 3 years ago
    Yeah love it dude, like playing on a swing the momentum of hanging and not nowing or you will fall back or go on, nice display.
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  • layedoutnissan 3 years ago
    very cool
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  • Ty Acord 3 years ago
    please. push....it.....OVER.
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  • True Congress 3 years ago
    This really is beautiful. Thank you...
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  • Yann Traboulsi 3 years ago
    amazing installation.
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  • benju 3 years ago
    terrific concept and realization!
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  • Dale Storer 3 years ago
    Absolutly wonderful! Machines that go 'bang' and do not fall over! Simplistic design, grace and balance in equilibrium.
    This is something I would love to see on exhibit in a contemporary museum. Elaborate on the idea...
    If nothing else to watch an old person passer-by 'cluck' in lack of understanding and contempt for the noise
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  • daniel arenas 3 years ago
    good piece. the anticipation is more important that the result, and the way time expands in those seconds when the piece it's about to collapse is great.
    reminds me fischli and weiss work - there's a book about the piece "the way things go by" is highly recommended, - that piece has several things in common with this work - the awkwardness, the sense of humor and the way objects are constructed and displayed. cheers.
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  • simon Snowflake 3 years ago
    Great, how we seem to hope to see the contructs fall, but obviously they dont. A bit of a metafor for all day problems, they seem devastating but in the end you'll manage.
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  • SymmetryFilms plus 3 years ago
    very cool. any footage of the development of this project???
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  • garrettOverheul 3 years ago
    Brilliant. I love the concept of the installation. For some reason it made me laugh each time the "machine" almost fell over, odd huh? Anyway I enjoyed it, thanks.
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  • Adam Beecher 3 years ago
    Nice, I like it.
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  • Beanz Ramirez 3 years ago
    Those must've been so hard to make!! Kudos.
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  • smpl 3 years ago
    Doom! Doom! We're all doomed :-)
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  • Miles Foxglove 3 years ago
    That is very nice.. in the randomness of life, does one ever actually fall over?
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  • MariaNYC plus 3 years ago
    So who is the artist that made these wonderful sculptures? Is it you?
    I would really like to know, pls give credit
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  • Michael Kontopoulos 3 years ago
    Hello,
    I am the creator of all these works. I use vimeo to host my documentation. Please visit my portfolio site for more information: mkontopoulos.com
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  • Marco G. 3 years ago
    this is the exact technique used in the berlin wall to stop escaping vehicles. After introducing that type of wall, the Dragon's teeth had been removed. So your sculpture has a deeper meaning than you may think. great work!
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  • Timothy Rosenberg 3 years ago
    Brilliant work.
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  • Naboo 3 years ago
    And do the hammers get their power through some electric cable, or is it maybe some mechanical spring?
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  • Robert Edgar plus 3 years ago
    Beautiful. Thanks.
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  • stevan kojic 3 years ago
    Nice homage to Peter Fischli & David Weiss.
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  • Joe Parslow 3 years ago
    I like it.
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  • Richard Holdman 3 years ago
    Love It!
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  • Ashley Ford 3 years ago
    just amazing! love the idea, and really funny.
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  • James Remar 3 years ago
    Some snide, high-brow bullshit. Always gets a ton of views. Works like a charm.
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  • Second Brown 3 years ago
    Brilliant!
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  • Ben 2 years ago
    Niiice. Good thing the video is not longer. Not sure if I could take the tension I felt every time the machines nearly fell over. Puh.
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  • Martin Barnier 2 years ago
    Serious business. I like the idea, how long did it take to get right?
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  • Maurice Lock 2 years ago
    a real attention grabber and ultimately rather sad for reasons I cannot fathom.
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  • Walter Hop 2 years ago
    I can identify with this.
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  • mikedidonato 2 years ago
    Stunning.
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  • rob ray plus 2 years ago
    totally great.
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  • hendersontwelve 2 years ago
    Fantastic!
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  • Tom Judd plus 2 years ago
    Superb installation. Shared on animade.tv
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  • PSpiliopoulos 1 year ago
    oraios
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  • Jack Alton 1 year ago
    It's clearly suicidal metronomes. Poor buggers, it's down the highway not across the street!
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  • Synes Elischka 8 months ago
    Hey, please submit your film to our festival until tuesday, thanks!
    randomfilmfest.com/submit
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