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Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman made a short documentary about Chris Burden‘s incredible kinetic sculpture, Metropolis II. The model city features 1,200 Matchbox-type cars running and a model train. It took four years to make and will open at LACMA this fall.

As a bonus, the video features a great song by Tortoise.

Check out Wikipedia for Chris Burden’s full bio. Link via boingboing.

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