THE VIDEO SHELF · kinetic sculpture
Machine with Concrete - Arthur Ganson
Arthur Ganson's kinetic sculpture chains twelve 1:50 worm gear reductions so the final gear, embedded in concrete, would take over two trillion years to turn once.
Why HN readers recommended it
Shared whenever gear reductions, exponential scaling or playful kinetic art come up.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Arthur Ganson
- Topic
- kinetic sculpture
- Format
- demo
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 6
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2015–2025
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From the original HN conversations
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I think this one is quite interesting: [VIDEO] A motor connected to a series of reduction gears, with the last part of the chain encased in concrete.
kybernetikos on Hacker News · 2018-10
In An artwork by Banksy shredded itself after selling for $1.3M at Sotheby’sI think the artist put it as "and then the last gear turns so slowly it doesn't really matter, so I cast it in concrete." Assuming we're talking about Arthur Gansons "Machine with concrete"[0] of course. I quite like how a lot of his work …
Doxin on Hacker News · 2025-07
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