Broken Heart by GregFrost
When I saw the above picture I thought, “Oh, nice, a heart print. Okay, that’s sweet.”
When I saw the video below, I thought, “OMG, that’s SWEET!”
Deceptively simple and beautiful. GregFrost, that’s an incredible design. It is simultaneously reminiscent of brain gears, a jack-in-the-box, and a valentine. It truly lives up to your description as a kinetic sculpture. 1
- Honestly, it doesn’t strike me so much as a broken heart as a cranky heart. [↩]
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5 Comments so far
James
It is brilliant, and I’ll definitely be printing one sometime – far easier than assembling the original *papercraft* version!
http://boingboing.net/2008/11/05/papercraft-heart-of.html
Dave Durant
That’s really, really cool. Well done!
Gabriel Isserlis
Thats incredible. awesome!!! well done!
mjokirby
please teach me how to do it. please.. thanks.. email me at mjokirby@yahoo.com.. thanks..
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