{"id":3437,"date":"2008-08-21T02:03:51","date_gmt":"2008-08-21T01:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/08\/21\/wood-that-works-by-david-c-roy\/"},"modified":"2008-08-21T02:03:51","modified_gmt":"2008-08-21T01:03:51","slug":"wood-that-works-by-david-c-roy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/08\/21\/wood-that-works-by-david-c-roy\/","title":{"rendered":"Wood that Works by David C Roy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.woodthatworks.com\/sculpturePages2\/new2008\/FalconFlash3.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/roy.jpg\" alt=\"roy.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Falcon (2007). <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.woodthatworks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">David C Roy<\/a>&#8216;s wooden sculptures are fine enough when viewed like this but really need to be seen in motion since these are all kinetic pieces. Roy&#8217;s website has a choice of animations for each work, from Flash diagrams to YouTube videos, all of which are fascinating to look at. Each piece is spring-driven and runs for several hours. The movements aren&#8217;t as predictable as you&#8217;d imagine either, many of them create an evolving range of patterns depending on the speed or arrangement of the components.<\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/05\/03\/glass-engines-and-marble-machines\/\">Glass engines and marble machines<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/05\/31\/peter-eudenbachs-eiffel-ferris-wheel\/\">Peter Eudenbach\u2019s Eiffel Ferris wheel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Falcon (2007). David C Roy&#8216;s wooden sculptures are fine enough when viewed like this but really need to be seen in motion since these are all kinetic pieces. Roy&#8217;s website has a choice of animations for each work, from Flash diagrams to YouTube videos, all of which are fascinating to look at. Each piece is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/08\/21\/wood-that-works-by-david-c-roy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wood that Works by David C Roy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-sculpture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-Tr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}