Wooden rolling ball sculpture

Wooden rolling ball sculpture, a photo by gergistheword on Flickr.

Rolling ball sculptures have always enamored me. It goes back to my first marble toy built by my father. It served as the literal and figurative launch for many of the Goldbergesque marble runs I built in our basement with carpet tubes, blocks, matchbox tracks, and anything else I could find.This gem was found at the Minnesota state fair in 2009. John like's to call this style "whittlepunk".