Behind the scenes of our summer cover, a working Rube Goldberg machine
A spinning, kicking, contraption of a cover. (The Voorhes/)Popular Science’s Play issue is now available to everyone. Read it now, no app or credit card required.The Rube Goldberg machine above is not the first that art and photography duo The Voorhes have created. But building one composed exclusively of playthings that fit on an 8-foot-by-8-foot bright-yellow wall while still leaving room for the text on the cover—that was a whole other challenge.The two started by looking at items featured in this issue to figure out what role they could take on. A golf club could flip up and tip something over; a camp stove could pop popcorn; with the help of a spring, a boxing glove attached to a skateboard could push a button. View this post on Instagram