Like Wallace and Gromit, OK Go and the folk behind the Cog campaign at Honda, I too have entangled with the Rube Goldberg situation, albeit less physically flinging my household possessions around the place and more metaphorically within my web work.
Indeed, 'complex operations that perform simple tasks in indirect, convoluted ways' is a definition that could very easily be transposed from Goldberg's Self-Operated Napkin (who's title is technically inaccurate due to the requirement of a soup eating instigator), to the coding I have to deal with on a daily basis. Like I said, this is only a metaphor; I have no actual method of inflating rubber gloves with kettle steam to trigger navigation rollover states.
One Goldberg-style contraption that I've been familiar with since childhood is illustrated on today's THREEHUNDREDANDSIXTEEFIVE challenge tee, donated by Iain at Bristol-based Truffle Shuffle. This is Iain's second donation to my challenge!
Mouse Trap has been a family favourite since 1963 and if for some unfathomable reason you are unfamiliar with the game, allow me to summarise - to catch a mouse, you need a mouse trap. Mouse traps are fairly dangerous for little children fingers, so alternately, you need a bunch of miniature plastic pieces resembling bathtubs and boots and such, that can be constructed to carry out a chain reaction, that if executed correctly, cages a mouse.
The Mouse Trap game board features on this Truffle Shuffle tee with an exaggerated perspective and limited colour palette, using an overall naive drawing style and deregistered print effect that offers a hint of nostalgia. The nostalgia is apt being as the game certainly no longer caters for today's little children fingers, which are more adept at using Xboxes and iPhones and pocket knives.
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