Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/11/28/marble-run-machine-with-11000.html
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What a wonderful, satisfying thing! Pretty sure I could watch for hours.
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Needs fewer bells and more jumps.
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The bells are a bit pointlesss. The whole thing makes such a din the bells are inaudible. It sounds a bit like an old weaving mill full of clattering looms.
(Or, referencing another of today’s threads, it sounds like any inner-city, trendy, large-scale bar/restaurant on a Friday night. It needs soft/rubber surfaces to replace the hard surfaces the marbles are clattering on currently. And some plush curtains and scatter cushions to soften the fall of the marbles. 
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But mesmerising nonetheless, whether sound is on or off.
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My kids and I love watching Jelle’s marble runs. Sadly, his youtube channel somehow lost all of its videos. He had a lot of great stuff on there. At that same Monkeytown place (it’s a sort of indoor play-place with tube mazes), he had built a run that used plastic ball pit balls, which kids could put on the run from entry points within tube maze.
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All that white noise would lead to some excellent sleep induction…
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It’s the answer to Hesse’s The Glass Bead Game in the same way that maybe the Hokey Pokey really is what it’s all about.
But I hear ya on the noise. I imagine it’s like being in a big, busy, used CD store but louder.
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That makes me surprisingly happy and excited for some reason. Little glass balls falling through a large wooden structure with houseplants! I want to rip my clothes off and run around in the rain. I can’t explain it.
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So noisy, such annoying noise.
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And yet when I create a similar artwork using hamsters, people call me a monster.
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If the biggest 2 containers (with 1000 and 10,000 marbles) are tipping at the same time, it creates a flood of 11,000 marbles!"
Why not just make the bigger container hold 11,000 marbles?
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I wish I had said that.
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“You will, Oscar, you will.” 
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They say that there is a thin line between genius and madness; but this is the work of a creative individual who certainly hasn’t lost their marbles.
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You all might enjoy this. 
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He posted on the subreddit TheOcho that he accidentally deleted his channel as he was attempting to remove an inactive Google+ page. Apparently he is going to slowly re-upload his MarbleLympics content.
I think it’s the chaotic predictability (or the predictable chaos?) that is so satisfying.
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