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Melvin the Magical Mixed Media Machine (or just Melvin the Machine) can be described as a Rube Goldberg machine with a twist. Besides doing what Rube Goldberg's do best - performing a simple task as inefficiently as possible, often in the form of a chain reaction - Melvin has an identity. Actually, the only purpose of this machine is promoting its own identity.

Melvin takes pictures and makes video's of his audience which he instantly uploads to his website, facebook and twitter account. Besides that he makes his own merchandise. All of this within 4 minutes of craziness which you just have to witness yourself.

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Concept & art direction: HEYHEYHEY | Designteam De Ploeg: HEYHEYHEY, Frank Winnubst, Bas van Hout, Bart Bekker, Jeroen Hezemans, Wouter Corvers, Bram de Vries, Dick Lafeber | Directed & produced by: HEYHEYHEY | Steadicam operator: Joost van Poppel | Focuspuller: Adriaan van de Polder | Boom operator: Andre Philips | Sound mixed by: Bram Meindersma | Editing by: Sander van der Aa | Music: Woody & Paul | Sponsors: MU, The Cre8ion.Lab, De Ploeg, Municipality of Eindhoven.

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Willem Blonk 8 months ago

Heeeel vet gedaan :)
Camera technisch gezien zou het steadicam werk beter kunnen, maar los van dat super vet!
FoURPAcK ontwerpers 7 months ago

geweldig!!!
Chris O'Shea 7 months ago

Nicely done!
FREMOX 7 months ago

You are crazy men !
A lot of preparation must have been done for this amazing piece... Keep up the good work !
Brian Moore 7 months ago

Absolutely Epic! thats was awesome! thank you for sharing.
Jr.canest 7 months ago

wow wow wow.
Damián, si Damián. 7 months ago

Increíble. De verdad.
Marie Baker 7 months ago

ummm, that was amazing. :)
Linda Ashby 7 months ago

Excellent! Brilliant!
Ram Training 7 months ago

Fantastic!

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Ram Training 7 months ago

Here: vultured.com/videos/melvin-the-machine/
Chris Mears 7 months ago

Congratulations. You are completely insane.
Nick Evans 7 months ago

WOW! That's all I can say. WOW!
richard mcrae 7 months ago

Abd
Cristian Ivan 7 months ago

Muy bueno, y creativo sobre todo.
Kelvin Nugroho 7 months ago

Wowww...., you now, melvin is name my son.
Tia Nerviani 4 months ago

I wonder if there's a hidden meaning to this coincidence.
Yatzer 7 months ago

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Dewese Milstead 7 months ago

very cool
buro KLEI 7 months ago

Mooi! Domino D-day is voor watjes.
Rocky Wilson 7 months ago

What patience you must have
haoo picklez core 7 months ago

wow : )
Kousoulides 7 months ago

It's like watching Us Politics..

..Only they do it with tax payer money
Darky 7 months ago

awesome ! posted at darky-ben.fr/vlog/
John Savage 7 months ago

so cool
fatigueme 7 months ago

its cool but you should set more cameras
Tyler Krupa 7 months ago

Very Very cool though i don't really like the cuts to the other cameras. I think it would have been cool all in one take. Or were those used to hide resets if you had to do this in multiple takes do to failures in the system?
Lizzy Overstreet 7 months ago

Loved watching this. Reminded me of playing the game Mousetrap as a kid. I thought the Jeppe Hein Distance installation at the IMA in Indy was mesmerizing, but this was downright entertaining. Especially loved the little parachutes.

This took a lot of patience and planning...
Raushan Singh 7 months ago

awsome!!!
webbeo 7 months ago

Great Job! This is a dream! So perfect!
Neil Halin 7 months ago

I love this!
Melvin Alvarez 7 months ago

such an honor to have this magnificent machine named after me... lol :D
Eivind 7 months ago

Cool!
Steve Rouse 7 months ago

Very cool!
Phil Schmidt 7 months ago

this is awesome!
Chad Ochs 7 months ago

impressive!!
Kurtis Hough 7 months ago

that is nuts
Joe Lacrasse 7 months ago

Great, but next time shot in 60fps.
Krzysztof 7 months ago

hehe wicked... little destruction is awalys welcome :D
Jacques Heyer 7 months ago

It's a wonderful Rube Goldberg device, and the planning must have taken ages, so much to get wrong, though I feel the camera pacing and focus made it a little hard to watch.
Radoslav Minchev 7 months ago

This is amazing, but you know that!
Tomasz Waszczeniuk 7 months ago

I don't know why but I dont like it, I think it's too too too long and we can't see all what is happening. Could be better recorded.
Aditya Basu 7 months ago

Amazing! Wish we could see all that went into it.
Clint J. Falcon 7 months ago

Yes indeed! Great stuff guys!
Tyris Audronis 7 months ago

Pretty good. Probably would have been a lot better if you'd planned your steadicam moves better and not missed half of the action.
billy congo 7 months ago

The contraption was brilliant, but there were problems of cutting away too early, or not being able to see the mechanism properly enough. I recognize how difficult it would be to capture.
Hugo Morais 7 months ago

pure genious!
ray fastignous 7 months ago

☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
Kristoffer Dominic Amora 7 months ago

Awesome! Synn Labs should see this.
Nicolas Favro Photography 7 months ago

Rly nice project but the videographer is late on every scenes :/
Olaus Linn 7 months ago

This is amazing and I absolutely love it. The paratroop dropping is my favorite part. Thanks for this - it's utterly ridiculous and wonderful all at once.
Jacques E. Bouchard 7 months ago

Very ingenious but really, this looks like it was shot in 24p when it should have been done 30p, film look conceit be damned. You're losing a lot of details in fast-moving small objects, especially due to the subsequent pulldown to 30 fps performed by Vimeo (which is probably 2:3 rather than 2:3:3:2).
Ssongbird 6 months ago

Hi Melvin

I always love to watch the domino effects.

But, would you tell me what do you want to prove after all the efforts ?

All the best !
MissMizchief 6 months ago

This is what's right in the world.
Mike Math 5 months ago

Classic - well done!
Brauni Audiovisual 5 months ago

it's like watching some Tom & Jerry cartoon. nice nice
Evangelina Elliott 5 months ago

Geboeid gekeken. Nicely done!
Edwin Haverkamp 4 months ago

prachtig, ook prachtig vormgegeven
J.B 4 months ago

the cameraman does not enhance this sublime machine ...

Damages whatsoever that bad shot!
Elroy Klee 3 months ago

Super
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HEYHEYHEY 1 month ago

Thanks for sharing, very much appreciated!

love,
HEYHEYHEY
The Method Case 2 weeks ago

Really nice video. The Method Case has published it:
themethodcase.com/melvin-the-machine-hey-hey-hey-studio/
Thank you very much.