The 31st annual da Vinci Days Graand Kinetic Challenge returns to Corvallis for a two-day human-powered sculpture race over land, sand, mud and water July 20-21. Read more at https://www.hereisoregon.com/events/2024/07/kooky-contraptions-will-race-in-corvallis-for-the-graand-kinetic-challenge.html?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dhfacebook&utm_content=app.dashhudson.com/here-is-oregon/library/media/430057426 | Here Is Oregon

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

Tork Kinetic Sculpture: the motion of this 1975 vintage kinetic art may seem random at first, but it is actually three modes of motion combined in this coupled harmonic oscillator. The shape of the spring equally allows for forward/backward oscillations and side to side oscillations, when launched it will trade back and forth between these two modes in an orbit of sorts. Superimposed is a vertical oscillation adding a comical touch. Produced and patented(1970) by Donald Max Engleman of Kinetic O