WALKING BOX - sculpture by Virginio Moutinho

Back in June of 2007, I wrote a short post about the Virginio Moutinho -- a portuguese architect, sculptor and photographer. The video above shows a very charming work of kinetic scuplpture by the artist. The piece features a wooden box with a human-like hand. When activated, the box pulls itself forward with the hand. Very creative!

You can see more artistic works by Virginio Moutinho on his web site.

[ Thanks Joe! ]

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Featured Automaton Maker: Virginio Moutinho

Virginio Moutinho is an amazingly talented Portuguese architect, toy collector, and mechanical sculptor. His web site features many wonderful contemporary automata.

Of particular interest is the sculpture section of his site. If you stay on the main page of the sculpture section you will see a montage of his automata sketches. Use the numbers, then right and left arrows in the lower right corner to browse through the images of his work.

See the automata of Virginio Moutinho. Please note: some of the automata are of adult themes.