{"id":14705,"date":"2016-09-26T11:40:51","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T18:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/?p=14705"},"modified":"2016-09-26T11:42:53","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T18:42:53","slug":"rube-goldberg-across-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/2016\/09\/26\/rube-goldberg-across-america\/","title":{"rendered":"A Rube Goldberg Machine Across America!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Can you imagine\u00a0using GIANT FLAMETHROWERS, TEXT MESSAGES, GOSPEL CHOIRS, and other UNUSUAL METHODS\u00a0to connect America like a Rube Goldberg machine?! \u00a0A group based in California is going to attempt it in a few weeks! No one has ever tried it before!<\/strong><\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"642\" height=\"699\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14621\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Americanwave.jpeg\" alt=\"americanwave\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Americanwave.jpeg 642w, https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Americanwave-588x640.jpeg 588w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 642px) 100vw, 642px\" \/>\n<p><strong>For the last five minutes of <a href=\"http:\/\/thedeconstruction.org\/\">The Deconstruction<\/a>, a 48-hour un-competition that happens October 14-16, a GIANT Rube Goldberg installation ACROSS AMERICA will be attempted! It&#8217;s called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/22914264\/common-ground-0\">&#8220;Common Ground&#8221;<\/a> and you can\u00a0help <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/22914264\/common-ground-0\">make it happen<\/a>!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A one of a kind, never attempted, work of conceptual kinetic art as big as America.<\/p>\n<p>Artists from 4 cities will connect America through a massive collaborative connected installation of chain reactions, fire cannons, text messages, and gospel choirs. \u00a0Each individual installation will celebrate good things specific to each region, and also address contemporary issues.<\/p>\n<p>Each regional installation is interconnected to the next through common communication mediums (like text messages or emails). \u00a0When one ends, it automatically triggers the next to begin.<\/p>\n<p>The installation will run for 5 minutes and will be live-streamed in real-time as it crosses the country for the grand finale of Deconstruction.<\/p>\n<p>A few days later we will release a video to the world of the result.\u00a0&#8220;Common Ground&#8221; is designed to demonstrate what is possible when people around the country collaborate and work together.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>via <a style=\"color: #999999;\" href=\"http:\/\/makezine.com\/2016\/09\/26\/deconstruction-delightfully-vague-world-wide-maker-event\/\">Make:<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>I hope they eat a good breakfast that day!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"giphy-embed\" src=\"\/\/giphy.com\/embed\/vi3e7EriwBBkY\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you imagine\u00a0using GIANT FLAMETHROWERS, TEXT MESSAGES, GOSPEL CHOIRS, and other UNUSUAL METHODS\u00a0to connect America like a Rube Goldberg machine?! \u00a0A group based in California is going to attempt it in a few weeks! No one has ever tried it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,16,9,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awesome","category-cool","category-fun","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14705"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14714,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14705\/revisions\/14714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}