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Tinkering with monks: chain reaction video
The final project of the workshop, on video. We set the whole contraption up and ran it twice. This video is a combination of both runs, as it was difficult to get all the shots in one run. It was hard to fight my way through the monks crowding their contraptions and cheering them on!
Some highlights include: water being used to complete a circuit; a soccer match between the US and Tibet, an elephant-powered ball-kicking mechanism; hand-made gears; a monk slapping a Chinese [cringe!]; a solar system; a monk being run over by a rickshaw; suicidal penguin switch; the Tibet express bringing Tibetans back to a free country; a rubber-band twang switch; 30 joyful and beautiful monks!
You can read more about this activity in these posts.
Tinkering with monks: light exploration video
Once again, two days of exploring light, reflections, mylar, mechanical movement, and caustics exemplified by one particularly playful and delightful final contraption. It’s a disco light!
You can read more about this activity in these posts.
Tinkering with monks: cardboard automata video
Three days of tinkering with Tibetan monks condensed in three minutes of video. Enjoy!
You can read all about the cardboard automata activity, as we implemented with with the monks, in these posts.