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Creative kinetics : making mechanical marvels in wood / Rodney Frost ; Photography by Leanne Fuchs.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, NY : Sterling Pub. Co., 2007.Description: 140 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781402732232
  • 1402732236
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • TT180 .F8 2007
Online resources:
Contents:
Weathercock -- Wind toys -- Mobiles -- Jumping Jacks -- Talking Heads -- Stabiles -- Puppets -- Moving Ball -- Cams -- Blues -- Wiggling Eyebrows -- Cranks -- Shafts -- Slots & Slides -- Drawings -- Star -- Eccentrics -- The Angel -- Mystery -- Flywheels -- Zoetrope -- Pulleys -- Sounds -- People -- Interaction -- 2 + 2 = 5 or Red -- Weather Toy -- Gravity.
Weathercock -- Wind toys -- Mobiles -- Jumping jacks -- Talking heads -- Stabiles -- Puppets -- Moving Ball -- Cams -- Blues -- Wiggling eyebrows -- Cranks -- Shafts -- Slots & slides -- Drawings -- Star -- Eccentrics -- The angel -- Mystery -- Flywheels -- Zoetrope -- Pulleys -- Sounds -- People -- Interaction -- 2 + 2 = 5 or red? -- Weather toy -- Gravity -- What if?
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Non-Fiction Davis (Central) Library Non-Fiction Non-Fiction 684.08 FRO 1 Available T00490575
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Artist, inventor, and longtime author Rodney Frost is known for wacky, whimsical woodworking books that encourage readers to experiment. With his newest, most creative volume yet, he provides an introduction to the wild and whimsical world of kinetic art--art that moves. Using plenty of informative sidebars and dynamic illustrations, Frost teaches the basic techniques in his own inimitable style, beginning with easy, fun projects like weather vanes and mobiles powered by air currents alone. Then it's on to simple toys you manipulate with strings, and art mechanized by levers, cranks, cams, and cogs. Far from a routine woodworking book, Creative Kinetics will inspire even the least craft-minded reader to pick up some scissors and turn a tuna can into a propeller or cardboard into a jumping-jack.

Includes index.

Weathercock -- Wind toys -- Mobiles -- Jumping Jacks -- Talking Heads -- Stabiles -- Puppets -- Moving Ball -- Cams -- Blues -- Wiggling Eyebrows -- Cranks -- Shafts -- Slots & Slides -- Drawings -- Star -- Eccentrics -- The Angel -- Mystery -- Flywheels -- Zoetrope -- Pulleys -- Sounds -- People -- Interaction -- 2 + 2 = 5 or Red -- Weather Toy -- Gravity.

Weathercock -- Wind toys -- Mobiles -- Jumping jacks -- Talking heads -- Stabiles -- Puppets -- Moving Ball -- Cams -- Blues -- Wiggling eyebrows -- Cranks -- Shafts -- Slots & slides -- Drawings -- Star -- Eccentrics -- The angel -- Mystery -- Flywheels -- Zoetrope -- Pulleys -- Sounds -- People -- Interaction -- 2 + 2 = 5 or red? -- Weather toy -- Gravity -- What if?

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Library Journal Review

Kinetic sculptures, i.e., those with moving parts, are often regarded as toys because children find them delightful. Adults will find these delightful as well. Frost's (Making Mad Toys; Mechanical Marvels in Wood) own artistic creations are too complicated to copy, so he provides some simplified projects for making components such as cams and cranks. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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