Applied Kinetic Arts - An incredibly cool group of kinetic artists (self included) from the San Francisco Bay area and beyond. Strength in numbers!
CTP -Go learn something from my Fairy Tech Father, Christopher Palmer.
Reuben Margolin - Powerfully beautiful Kinetic Sculpture.
Jeremy Mayer - One man and many typewriters. Go see his fabulous sculptures.
Alan Rorie- Our own mad scientist. Watch him bend physics and popular culture to his will.
Randy Regier- Sculptures, Toys, and installations after my own heart. Nice stuff.
Michael Cooper- A true craftsman with a really interesting approach to machines.
Gina Kamentsky- Her site combines my two loves: animation and kinetic sculpture.
Mike Rivamonte- A fellow robots-from-found-things guy. Great photographs of his wonderful characters too.
Webb Studios - My mom has a site for her ceramic work. Go support the fam.
Arthur Gould - And here is my dads sculpture work. Check the giant portrait of his father.
Clayton Bailey - I owe quite a bit to this guy for inspiring me in the first place.
Tom Haney- I just found Tom online. Totally serene, classic automata. Check out “Dubious”.
Benjamin Cowden- Recent addition to the AKA collective. Way classy mechanical sculptures.
Greg Brotherton- Greg is another metal master with a tendency towards figurative work. His latest involve some kinetic elements too. He is also co-owner of the awesome Device Gallery.
Lawrence Northey - Much respect to another robot master.
Arthur Ganson - No kinetic art link page is complete without him. I hope I’m so cool one day.
Bunnywax - John Casey, makin creepy things.
Cabaret Mechanical Theatre - Paul Spooners smooth mechanical toys. Exhibits, kits etc. A real inspiration.
Jean Tinguely - A museum dedicated to the true father of kinetic sculpture. If you dont know, learn.
Varnish Fine Art - Nice gallery in S.F. very sculpture friendly.
Kinetic Art Organization - Dedicated to the world community of Kinetic Art and Artists.
Survival Research Laboratories - The original robot apocalypse.
Rude Designs - Don Carlson.......click it.
Deviation Creation - A nice gallery site with an international perspective. Hope you can read German.
Machine Brain - A very complete link site devoted to geeks like myself.
Kenji Yanobe- WOW! Fire breathing Robot alert.
Jessica Joslin- Another enthusiast of spooky creatures with glass eyes. Respect to her for waking me up to the possibilities of brass objects.
Dug North- There is no "o" in his first name, but there is kinetic sculpture on his web site.
Mike Meyers- Artist, yes. Famous comedian, fictional serial killer, no.
Paul Chatem- We went to school together at KCAI, and he just keeps getting better. Check out his paintings.
Richard Seibert- Got Letterpress? If not, look no further. Not to mention, if it looks Greek to you, he can translate it.
Kinetica Museum- Wow, a museum dedicated to robotic and kinetic art, about time!
Electro Art Works- Andy Hill makes junk robots too, he goes the extra mile with cool packaging as well.
Gregory Barsamian- Very cool three dimensional zoetropes. I wont try to describe them. Just go see.
Kugelbahn- A comprehensive site with an international perspective on kinetic art and rolling ball sculptures.
Theo Jansen- Pretty mind blowing large scale wind powered sculptures here.
Stephane Halleux- A tricky site for info unless you read french. But the photos do all the talking anyway. Very innovative found object sculpture.
Eric Powell- Fellow found object aficionado, friend, neighbor, sculptor, designer.
Sarina Brewer- Cool, horrible taxidermy oddities. “She calls it art, you can call it whatever you want”
BeinArt Surreal Art Collective- A big collection of contemporary Surreal art. Get your spook on.
Ernie Fosselius- The man behind the classic “Hardware Wars” movie. Check out his mobile automata musuem.
Liz McGrath- Quality critters here.
Chris Eckert- Very tight kinetic sculpture.
Christopher Conte- Cool, kinda dark, mechanical sculpture with a lot of found objects.
Max Chen- Check out this guy’s bent-up bikes.
I-Wei- Steam powered robots! I mean, thats pretty cool.
Wotartist- In their own words: “Hundreds of quality artist’s websites, all in one place”. It’s true too.
Brass Goggles- So everybody keeps saying that my work is “steampunk”. I think that’s a silly word, but this site compiles a lot of the wonderful work that falls under this umbrella, decide for yourself.
Chela Fielding- My old friend and co-worker Chela has just posted her very interesting work from found materials.
Serge Jupin- It looks like I may have a long lost twin in France. Check out his prolific gallery of wonderful robots made from very similar parts as my own.
The worlds strangest vehicles- In my research for my scooter project I came across many interesting images, but this page had the most entertaining variety in one place that I could find.
Jeff De Boer- I just love this. Meticulously crafted suits of armor for cats and mice, beautiful ray guns, a helmet for a dodo bird, and thats just to get you started. Check him out.
Michael Pflueger- A recent discovery on the mechanical sculpture front. Nice work.
Temples of Damanhur- Wow....secret underground network of “outsider-art” temples in Italy. This consumed a whole evening for me.
Kineticworld.com- A great source for kinetic art, thank you CTP!
Kineticus.com- A good database site for kinetic artists from around the world.
Les Machines de L’Ile- Only the single most humbling outfit out there. Totally mind blowing huge mechanical animals. Naturally I’m most fond of their squid.
Michael Ulman- Cool machines made from all sorts of materials. Some functioning, some not. I really can’t decide which I like more.
Edouard Martinet- Animal sculpture from scrap metal. I like his insects the best.
Sophie Naylor- cool, classic automata.
Dylan Kehde Roelofs- Beautiful blown glass incandescent sculpture
Sam Deal- Nice mixed media kinetic work from down under.
Eat PES- I’ve always felt that stop motion animation and kinetic sculpture have a lot in common, check out a stellar example of the former.
Young C. Park- Tal just sent me this link. Probably the most amazing model airplanes you will ever see.
Kyle Fokken- A recent discovery. Cool machine oriented sculpture with many found object elements.
R.L. Croft.- Another artist will a healthy love for aluminum objects (among other things).
Dan Grayber- Beautiful machine fetish (my words, not his) sculptures.
Lewis Tardy- Sleek, art deco inspired figurative works in stainless steel and found metal objects.
Gregory Witt- Great kinetic works here, but I especially love “Cloud”.
Chris Fitch- Watch the video for “Spring”, fluid grace.