Saturday, February 23, 2008

Bragging Rights

This is the coolest thing I've seen in a long time. (I know, I really need to get a life!) I am pleased to present this production that was created at what is indisputably the best of the Big Ten universities.



"This incredible machine was built as a collaborative effort between the Robert M. Trammell Music Conservatory and the Sharon Wick School of Engineering at the University of Iowa ... Amazingly, 97% of the machines components came from John Deere Industries and Irrigation Equipment of Bancroft, Iowa, yes farm equipment!

It took the team a combined 13,029 hours of set-up, alignment, calibration, and tuning before filming this video but as you can see it was WELL worth the effort. It is now on display in the Matthew Gerhard Alumni Hall at the University and is already slated to be donated to the Smithsonian."

5 comments:

Jenn said...

that IS supercool!

Stephen said...

That was absolutely amazing!! Thanks!

Barbara said...

Wow! That was cool!

Barbara said...

Matt was insistant that this was animated. We argued about it and then he went off to prove he was right. Apparently on Snopes.com it says it is animated.

Evie said...

It definitely looks animated. Either way, it's a fun idea that would take a lot of time to put together so well.