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词条 Brett Doar
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  1. Early life and education

  2. Work

  3. References

  4. External links

{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2016}}Brett Doar is a multi-disciplinary artist, engineer and contraptionist known for building Rube Goldberg machines and other interactive and kinetic devices. Doar is best known for his roles as a primary engineer for the Rube Goldberg machine in OK Go's "This Too Shall Pass" music video,[1] lead engineer and creative director for "Red Bull Kluge,"[2] and creator of GoldieBlox's "Princess Machine".[3] He lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.[4]

Early life and education

Doar was born in Cambridge Massachusetts and was raised in Charlotte, NC. As an undergraduate he studied Architecture, linguistics, literature and screenwriting at 4 universities before earning his B.A. from New School University in New York City. He earned an M.F.A. from the Arts, Computation and Engineering program at UC Irvine in 2009.[5] He has worked as a commercial fisherman in the Bering Sea, a bus driver, a film and video editor, and a teacher at the preschool, middle school and university level.

Work

Doar was a primary engineer of the Rube Goldberg machine for OK Go's "This Too Shall Pass" music video, which premiered on YouTube on 2 March 2010 and achieved over 6 million views within six days.[6] Following the viral success of this music video, Doar built a Rube Goldberg machine for The Colbert Report which was set off by Stephen Colbert in front of a live audience to coincide with OK Go's performance on the show on 29 April 2010.[1]

In 2013, Doar created the "Princess Machine" that was featured in an ad for GoldieBlox.[3] The ad launched on YouTube in November 2013 and garnered over 8 million views in 4 days.[7]

In 2014, Doar created the machine used in the promotional trailer for the Android release of the mobile video game, Leo's Fortune.[8]

References

1. ^{{Cite web|url=http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/30/welcome-to-the-colbert-machine/|title=Welcome to The Colbert Machine|last=Itzkoff|first=Dave|access-date=2016-09-20}}
2. ^{{Cite web|url=http://jalopnik.com/5967389/the-man-behind-the-worlds-biggest-rube-goldberg-machines-explains-how-you-control-chaos|title=The Man Behind The World's Biggest Rube Goldberg Machines Explains How You Control Chaos|last=Torchinsky|first=Jason|language=en-US|access-date=2016-09-20}}
3. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.latimes.com/home/la-lh-goldieblox-video-20131118-story.html|title=GoldieBlox video: Inspiring girls to be builders|last=Times|first=Los Angeles|website=latimes.com|access-date=2016-09-20}}
4. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/brett-doar-7674693|title=Brett Doar – Linkedin Page|last=|first=|date=|website=Linkedin|publisher=|access-date=2016-09-20}}
5. ^{{Cite web|url=https://communications.uci.edu/magazine/2016/winter/domino-effect.html|title=Domino Effect|last=UCI|website=communications.uci.edu|access-date=2016-09-20}}
6. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/Music/03/15/music.videos.future/|title=Who killed the music video star? - CNN.com|last=CNN|first=By Breeanna Hare, Special to|access-date=2016-09-20}}
7. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/may/13/goldieblox-beastie-boys-girls-settlement|title=GoldieBlox agreed to pay $1m to charity in Beastie Boys settlement|last=Dredge|first=Stuart|date=13 May 2014|newspaper=The Guardian|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077|access-date=2016-09-20}}
8. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.adweek.com/news/advertising-branding/ad-day-rube-goldberg-device-promotes-video-game-bringing-it-life-158845|title=Ad of the Day: This Rube Goldberg Device Promotes a Video Game by Bringing It to Life|access-date=2016-09-20}}

External links

  • Artist's Website
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