{"id":7011,"date":"2018-05-27T15:10:23","date_gmt":"2018-05-27T22:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=7011"},"modified":"2018-05-27T15:10:23","modified_gmt":"2018-05-27T22:10:23","slug":"the-joyously-absurd-rube-goldberg-machines-of-joseph-herscher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/27\/the-joyously-absurd-rube-goldberg-machines-of-joseph-herscher\/","title":{"rendered":"The joyously absurd Rube Goldberg machines of Joseph Herscher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m getting way too big a kick out of the work of kinetic artist &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/josephsmachines.com\/toys\">toymaker<\/a> Joseph Herscher:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iemItSAT9Ew?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Khoi Vinh <a href=\"https:\/\/www.subtraction.com\/2018\/05\/16\/valuable-lessons-from-pointless-machines\/\">writes<\/a>, in an inventory worth of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stefon\">Stefon<\/a>\u00a0(\u201cthis place has <em>everything<\/em>\u2026\u201d),<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Herscher\u2019s pi\u00e8ce de r\u00e9sistance may be \u201cThe Cake Server,\u201d shown above: a gorgeous monstrosity that brings together melting butter, a glass of juice that pours its contents into itself, a baby using a smartphone and much more to serve a slice of upside-down cake to a plate in its God-intended manner of delivery. It\u2019s a marvel to behold.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Enjoy:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/auIlGqEyTm8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/NewImage-32.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"599\" height=\"453\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/iemItSAT9Ew\">YouTube 1<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/auIlGqEyTm8\">2<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m getting way too big a kick out of the work of kinetic artist &amp; toymaker Joseph Herscher: Khoi Vinh writes, in an inventory worth of Stefon\u00a0(\u201cthis place has everything\u2026\u201d), Herscher\u2019s pi\u00e8ce de r\u00e9sistance may be \u201cThe Cake Server,\u201d shown above: a gorgeous monstrosity that brings together melting butter, a glass of juice that pours [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7011"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7011"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7022,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7011\/revisions\/7022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}