a HUGE interactive MARBLE MACHINE!

Inspired by the Moniac (Monetary National Income Analogue Computer), built by Bill Philips in 1949, I developed the MONIAC installation for Economia festival
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For the idea and the construction of Moniac, I was inspired by another Moniac - some analogue computer built by Bill Philips in 1949. He used it to model the workings of an economy with fluid logic, very ingenious. You can find it easily through Google - call it a tribute if you like.
My Moniac, developed for the Economia Festival, is an analogue installation as well, inviting visitors to play with the economic system. The installation can be operated by up to four people simultaneously, spending and earning money; a simulation of the financial system, visualised by migratory metal balls. It’s fun too, like a real game.
To get things started - to set the machine in motion - one of the associates should physically activate the cash flow; adding a bodily dimension to a system that became nearly entirely virtual. To earn money, one can choose to work longer or harder, to invest, to speculate on the stock market or even decide to gamble. If one wants to spend that hard-earned money, he can do so by the purchase of candy. But, of course, prices may fluctuate
The collaboration between Baltan Laboratories and Daniel de Bruin is kindly supported by the Mondriaan Fund.
The MONIAC is available to rent or buy, please contact me through www.danieldebr... for more information.
#marblemachine #engineering #economy #money
Video by moredanthings
Actors: Guus van Beers & Fleur Van Daal
Voice over: Dom Hoff
Color grading: Thomas van Kalmthout
Music: moredanthings & Telescope Music - telescopemusic.nl

[@goopaspect536]

coolest propaganda film ive ever seen

[@danielchan1668]

The business game is represented by a pinball game. The stock market is represented by a plinko. Both are well-known chaotic systems where very slight variances alter the outcome significantly, to the point they are usually considered games of chance. Brother, the devil is always in the details. Subtlety is a writer's greatest tool.

[@DTGameReviews]

This is awesome!! Why does this not have more views!?

[@erickmarquez506]

Because of the analogy very propagandist...

[@andresouza2314]

Not right tags

[@knight_kazul]

Because he already has one that's hugely popular.

[@_Msn_]

Really cool machine! Love the fact that the gumball prices change over time.

[@edittube]

Legends says that girl is still standing in that posture.

[@Wintergatan]

awesome!

[@danielbruin]

Looking for flywheels? 😅

[@herrleonhardt7379]

THIS is ART! Intelligent, well told and good craftsmanship!

[@neilsutcliffe5825]

Wow. I actually had a go on this in Eindhoven! It was really loud, and we didn't trust the sweets, but it was crazy complicated! Weights and counters and marbles madness!

[@NiQiuYu]

I did also saw it

[@herbie5263]

Can I get Economy's number? She looks stunning!

[@manmediocre499]

😂

[@TimVanS]

You can find her name in de description 😉

[@nine81]

Fantastic machine.

[@OGLanzo2]

I lowkey want a schematic for this machine just to see how it works

[@PunmasterSTP]

I feel like I was being taught a lesson, in a subversively fun way! I also appreciated the nice lady pointing to the machine 😃

[@randybradshaw7060]

Who knew that marbles were such a “chick magnet!” This revelation is causing me to doubt my whole life! If I only knew that when I was young😔

[@tarzantbottinetyler]

bravo for the pink-floyd...ish musical theme.

[@wingedlight1012]

pink floyd is the best

[@vincentbishop3684]

Was gonna say... Good job transforming an iconic piece into 4/4, originally in 7/8 of a time signature!

[@kevinsaenz7736]

Amazing machine. This needs to go viral

[@Engineezy]

I can't believe I hadn't seen this until now- this is phenomenal!

[@danielbruin]

Yeah, maybe I need to make a short about it someday :)

[@NC-ck1hf]

one of those videos youtube recomend u after 7 years. but i found it by search.

[@AltaSonix]

Amazing marble machine! I loved to play with marbles, when I was a kid

[@pthanos]

THIS... is one of the videos I 've seen In a looong time. Bravo!

[@boianpeev1820]

Thats so capitalistic, its awesome!!! Great job

[@tomevans1388]

I'm not sure what's smarter - The machine, the concept or the jazz version of 'money'. Either way, this is excellent.

[@yunusalih]

Nice touch playing pink floyd (money) in the end.

[@DanHarville]

What a wonderful machine... and let me say, I do like capitalism, and pretty girls pointing at machines.

[@duyverkroon]

A man of culture i see

[@sonnypruitt6639]

What machine?

[@TheTechAdmin]

1:09 In Soviet Russia, girls literally, lean on you.

[@gsas3012]

I think you meant to have the timestamp earlier in the video, like 1:02

[@TheTechAdmin]

You know what's funny. My timestamps makes NO SENSE. Yours does make MORE sense for the joke. But, jeez, what a baaad joke. I'm hoping there's something more that I saw in the moment I commented, that I'm just not seeing right now, lol. Having half a kind to just delete the comment

[@user-yw8sr3uj1w]

Awesome!!

[@bastis.1751]

That is crazy!!!

[@carlosm2651]

You should have more Views. Your content it's amazing!

[@jaeheich2240]

This represents economy so well! Great job

[@dehe82]

PLEASE DO AN IN-DEPTH VIEW OF THIS BEAUTIFUL MACHINE!! sorry for the shouting, but this is amazing... Need to see more of it! How you made it! All the parts! Etc.

[@DaveDexterMusic]

how the fuck did it take me until 1:09 to realise the music was a jazzy arrangement of pink floyd's "money"

[@Zenas521]

Cool Man! That dam algorithm didn't notify me until now, seven months later. 👍👍👍

[@Paruthi.618]

Awesome

[@epicne9151]

So you have 2 actors. One interacts with the machine, and the other smiles at you. Wonderful use of economy on their payroll lol.

[@DaveSmith-cp5kj]

Basically the average citizen vs government.

[@CGP1966]

Congratulations...

[@vgfxworks]

You're a genius Sir ! 👏

[@fyy5998]

I just wish this was an actual machine at an arcade

[@mjodr]

Love the Pink Floyd-esque bassline.

[@StevenJonWest]

Is that soundtrack inspired by Pink Floyd Money?! 🎸 😅 lol very witty video, and the machine looks epic!

[@marcustvchannel5885]

Keep uploading

[@jeromebibi6384]

je vous trouve parfait dans votre passion très chère ami.. cordialement

[@eryalmario5299]

This would be amazing for a pachinko machine

[@fuzzydark1395]

Beatiful machine. But what exactly does the marble artifact behind her do?

[@henriedekker3622]

Looks fun to play

[@AndrewWilsonStooshie]

LOL. At first I thought this was a serious video arguing for capitalism.

[@RedSmithWorkshop]

Briliant

[@westernlocksmith5474]

Other youtubers would have stretched this into 10 part videos. Maybe this guy could have should have too.

[@gillesbkf4315]

Perfectly executed, and what about inflation ? :]

[@ardvark84]

Steel marbles wear a bit with time so you'll need more marbles to run the machi... I mean the economy.

[@Ritefita]

inflation is a tool to make real lifes cost less. it's a tool to force slaves work harder every day.

[@DaveSmith-cp5kj]

Inflation is represented by Uncle Sam coming in with Chinese bought steel marbles and spending it for himself rather than turning the cog and participating in production.

[@mrmexicano64]

I like the machine, don't like the message

[@osiriapinkserenity]

I think it's meant to be sarcasm. That's the only possible explanation for the Pink Floyd-like song.

[@dabbydunkiesa9624]

You just gotta look at the economy in the eyes and say "Yes daddy, please."

[@intercitty]

This is beautiful

[@GrantDexter]

What the heck was that?!

[@dewolff6937]

We need this

[@STIPHENTORRES]

The girl in the whole vid: 💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃

[@Callmenobody174]

came for the girl, stayed for the girl

[@The_CIA]

*I want to interact with what's next to the marble machine...*

[@Rc2Go]

It’s literally like pulling time out of thin air

[@RSpudieD]

Impressive!!!

[@zoom7533]

Good machine, but this legs make me crazy!

[@qwazy01]

In this economy... first you get the money, then you get the power, THEN you get the woman. As seen here...

[@aldrinalejo1810]

Cool 😎

[@adrianschnurmartinez3024]

Very interesting

[@vladimirkuharik34]

im looking for my jaw in basement

[@lmeza1983]

Where I live prices go up if you buy more....

[@thefriendlyaspie7984]

is she interactive too, like goes up and down? xd

[@MrMaxeemum]

I'd love to play with that.😉😉

[@adambrooks822]

Kinda preachy, I just want the machine

[@Sauce787]

Work, consume and do not ask questions.

[@submariner179]

In love

[@patrickguest2762]

how dont u have a million subs

[@charliesohm6572]

I love the faux Pink Floyd music.

[@lucabrasisleepswiththefish77]

What a wonderful build. Did you allocate a portion of your gumball for taxes?

[@somedutchguy7582]

You should totally do a collaboration with Wintergatan!

[@colinschabel]

And every ten years you might end up on the street

[@truejoyproducts5097]

Alexander Chohan literally yes, that’s how most capitalist economies work. There has the be a crash every few years or it’s unsustainable, and the lower classes just get bigger during those crashes, eventually there will be no middle class anywhere.

[@fengxiong520]

Yes but that is better than being on the streets your whole life

[@DaveSmith-cp5kj]

@@truejoyproducts5097 Crashes are not necessary in an economy. They usually happen when the government enacts some kind of regulatory pressure and it leads to long term consequences. In America for example, the Great Depression and the Great Recession both happened because the government did shenaigans with banks and loans resulting in a bubble and collapse. Bubbles do not normally happen in true capitalistic economies, save for non-economic disasters such as natural disasters, warfare, etc. The reason crashes don't happen is because it is self regulating. For example if something becomes scarce, prices rise which limits consumption, and encourage more growth in that industry, which then lead to surplus that lower prices. We see this a lot in software design.

[@TravisHi_YT]

Woah, this should have more views.

[@captlee3k]

Wee need to be able to use it

[@joshuabang1437]

I need this NAO

[@ProfLuisHerrera]

Well, this is uncomfortably true.

[@DaveSmith-cp5kj]

How is any of this uncomfortable? This is how the economy works and it's a good thing that when people get rewarded for their merits.

[@necrophadian]

Its criminal how this only has 100k views

[@mimiporsche]

beautifulllll👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@achannelhasnoname5182]

Neat!

[@cruzmarco6048]

She's so cuuuuute. 💕

[@StickerWyck]

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[@TheNotSkull]

I want to play that

[@まーごめ-c7f]

すご

[@robot5663]

How I ended up here one will never know

[@morning5tarr]

I just came here for the girl in thumbnail.

[@sdaverede]

This masterpiece deserves more attention from the internet

[@kob6131]

This is way to uncommunistic for me to like this... Jk nice machine x3

[@SidneiSanches]

SIMPLESMENTE O MELHOR

[@mcb187]

This is so relevant right now

[@gabrielmedina2183]

👌👌

[@TheCrazycuber]

it doesn't work if 1% of the people have 99 marbles and the other 99% have to share 1 marble good vid love marble tracks!!!

[@DaveSmith-cp5kj]

The 1% isn't even a thing. The top 10% of wealthy people pay nearly all the taxes in America for example. The problem is not the rich (after all, unless you are an entrepreneur, they are the ones who provide the jobs in the first place which allows people to have upward mobility), it's the politicians who make their wealth not by providing services, but by taking from others and trickling down a small amount of their stolen wealth to people in order to get followings.

[@gorou8807]

How much you want for it

[@callmeniles6060]

why is she there so awkwardly

[@GertGybels]

Heel tof gedaan, je abbo's en views moeten hoger liggen. ;-)

[@kareem-ji8uw]

mechanical power

[@Backkward]

Is this a real thing? At a real place so we could see and try it?

[@supercellex4D]

the most based capitalism propaganda

[@them4309]

ok..ok.. i'll click the girl in the silver dress

[@RNKRMN]

Still better than turkish economy

[@olavl8827]

Are you poor? Must be your own fault, because you could always earn some money by investing in the stock market. The economy works for everyone! Consume more! Buy stuff you don't need with money you don't have to impress people you don't even like!

[@DaveSmith-cp5kj]

That's the truth. I know so many people who complain about making ends meet, and yet I always see them with Starbucks in hand and the latest electronics that they end up collecting dust when the next "new product" comes out.

[@Floedekage]

Just wait 'till these marbles hear about Karl Marxble's ideas... Theres gonna be an up-rolling...

[@DaveSmith-cp5kj]

Then you spin the machine... without marbles inside of it.