KINETIC SCULPTURE RACE returns for it's 23rd year on SATURDAY, MAY 6 with the theme "Everyday People"! 👥 🏁 Ordinary people will race their EXTRAordinary human-powered, all-terrain, artful contraptions through 15 miles of Baltimore streets and neighborhoods, traversing all obstacles of sand, mud, and deep harbor waters! We're less than TWO WEEKS AWAY—don't miss your chance to see Baltimore's most stupefying spectacle LIVE and IN-PERSON! ... Thank you to Courageous Studios for capturing this inc

Deja Vu II: a favorite work of sculpture in my collection- an astonishing spring powered kinetic art form that hangs on my wall. Crafted from wood this device has two disks, each with a pattern of curved spokes that can rotate at different rates and direction to produce interesting illusions of motion via moiré interference effects. A ribbon spring drives an ingenious mechanism that uses ratchets (and the rotational momentum of the disks) to create the various visual modes- a half rotation of th