Arthur Ganson

Arthur Ganson is a world renowned kinetic sculpture and the inventor of the Toobers and Zots toys.  He was born in 1955 in Hartford, Connecticut and he graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 1978 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts.  Ganson makes Rube Goldberg inspired machines and mechanical art demonstrations that posses existential themes.  

According to Wikikpedia he "has held residencies in science museums, collaborated with the Studebaker Movement Theatre, and been featured in one-man shows at MIT Museum, Harvard’s Carpenter Center, the DeCordova Museum, and the Ricco/Maresca Gallery in New York. He has a permanent installation at the National Inventors Hall of Fame. He was aMIT artist-in-residence. and some of his work is on permanent display at the Gestural Engineering exhibit at MIT Museum inCambridge, Massachusetts."

He makes all of the machines and gears himself, sometimes even using his methods he developed.

Here are some of his machines: