A filmmaker has built animated an actual Rube Goldberg machine — a self-operating napkin — and written an original score to accompany it and will perform both tomorrow night in NYC.
"It's basically attached to the pendulum of a clock," Mr. Biskin said, "so the napkin swings back and forth." He used Goldberg's original drawings to make his film, titled "Goldberg's Variations." At first he intended only to write music for the artwork, but he decided the images needed to move. "It was kind of fun to get into the physics of it," Mr. Biskin said, noting that he sometimes had to reposition figures like a drunk bird or a cat that had had too much caffeine. He has also featured Goldberg's convoluted texts onscreen.
(Thanks, Caines!)
