A Rube Goldberg Contraption

December 28, 2009

Isn’t it nice, when things just…work? There are no computer graphics or digital tricks in the filming of this Honda commercial. Everything you see happened in real time exactly as you see it. The recording cost 6 million dollars and required 606 takes. This is a great example of what a Rube Goldberg contraption would have looked like. Check it out!

Rube Goldberg (1883-1970) was a Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist, sculptor, and author. Reuben Lucius Goldberg (Rube Goldberg) was born in San Francisco on July 4th, 1883. After graduating University of California Berkeley with a degree in engineering, Rube went on to work as an engineer for the City of San Francisco Water and Sewers Department.

Best known for his “inventions”, Rube’s early years as an engineer informed his most acclaimed work. A Rube Goldberg contraption – an elaborate set of arms, wheels, gears, handles, cups, and rods, put in motion by balls, canary cages, pails, boots, bathtubs, paddles, and live animals – takes a simple task and makes it extraordinarily complicated.

 

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