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Clay Newton  //  Clay is a User Experience Designer interested in emerging technologies and platforms. With a background in interaction design and front end development, Clay has a full spectrum of competencies including ethnographic research, user requirements, IA, accessibility, internationalization, usability, prototyping & development.

Clay was the co-founder and president of Remarkd.com, a run-anywhere ecommerce & auction service. Clay has also designed web applications and user experiences for Bank of America, Navis, eve.com, and other companies. In a previous life, Clay worked as a gardener and cook at The French Laundry, both before and during the Thomas Keller era. Ask him about the time he spilled paint on the new carpet just before the grand opening. He has a lot of tattoos.

Oct 28 / 1:22pm

Incredible Music Machine

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From a bulk email I received:


This is almost unbelievable. See how all of the balls wind up in catcher cones.

This incredible machine was built as a collaborative effort between the Robert M. Trammell Music Conservatory and the Sharon Wick School of Engineering at the University of Iowa . Amazingly, 97% of the machine's components came from John Deere Industries and Irrigation Equipment of Bancroft, Iowa .  Yes, farm equipment. It took the team a combined 13,029 hours of set-up, alignment, calibration, and tuning before filming this video but as you can see, it was WELL worth the effort.

It is now on display in the Matthew Gerhard Alumni Hall at the University and is already slated to be donated to the Smithsonian.

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Oct 28, 2009
Clay Newton said...
I think this may be all CGI, but it's a nice fantasy.

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