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    The Kinetic King

    Tim Fort, known on the Internet as the Kinetic King, is the creator of unique, chain-reaction gadgets using techniques seen nowhere else. Born in Saint Paul in 1964, Tim never quite grew out of the playing-with-blocks stage of his childhood. He often drove his parents crazy with his stick bombs, domino chains, playing-card pyramids and many other devices. After taking up space in college for four years, he got a degree in rocket science, got married and entered the workforce. At the age of 35, he decided that he was bored with conventional employment and decided to become an artist instead. Recalling the gadgets and gizmos of his youth, he decided to create one-of-a-kind chain-reaction gadgets that go way beyond domino tumbling. Since then, he has invented different chain-reaction techniques like the herringbone, the string-a-ling, multi-celled stick bombs and the clever-lever, among many others.

    Kinetic-Art Rant #5, or Beat the Clock

    By The Kinetic King on August 29, 2011 02:53 PM
    This next gadget is going to be challenging for me.  I will have maybe 14 hours for set-up time, but the gadget I'm doing is more labor-intensive.  The last gadget was based on my herringbone technique and I barely had enough time to finish in spite of the herringbone being one of my...

     

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    Kinetic-Art Rant #4, or Here We Go Again

    By The Kinetic King on August 15, 2011 01:34 PM
    It's a little after 1:20 PM Pacific Daylight Time and I'm sitting under the media tent waiting for the lunch sandwiches to be delivered.  After a little nosh, I'll be prepping some of my props, and later this evening, I'll be starting the set-up for my next AGT gadget. Without giving out too...

     

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    Kinetic-Art Rant #3, or What Went Wrong?

    By The Kinetic King on August 06, 2011 12:11 PM
    By now, I'm probably more famous for my disaster on the fourth live-round competition on AGT than for anything else.  Several days after the disaster, I still am not 100% what went wrong, but have a pretty good idea. Occasionally, I have gadgets lock up in one or two places and have to tap it...

     

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    Kinetic-Art Rant #2, or, What Do You Call 'Em?

    By The Kinetic King on July 09, 2011 11:59 AM
    For those of us who were alive in the 70s, including this Old Fort, we might remember when domino tumbling took off as a fad.  As millions of dominoes were tumbled throughout the 80s and 90s, very little thought seems to have been given to the idea that dominoes were only one of many different...

     

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    Kinetic-Art Rant #1, or, Please Don't Call 'Em Rube Goldberg Gadgets

    By The Kinetic King on July 09, 2011 11:56 AM
    One of the funny things about my gadgets is figuring out what to call them.  Kinetic sculptures?  Configurations?  Chain-reaction assemblies?  Gadgets?  A lot of times, people call my devices "Rube Goldberg gadgets" which is kinda erroneous.  My gadgets are kissing...

     

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