Grandson David had a magnet in his hand as he walked by one of his cousin’s Christmas mobiles. He found the wires were magnetic, so we sat down at the table and played with it. David made it look easy to cause the stars to turn by moving the magnet in circles. If his hand went too close, the small stars jumped and glued themselves to the magnet. When that happened, we couldn’t stop ourselves from laughing. I tried it, and after a few moments, I handed the magnet back to the master mover.
Here is a photo in case you can’t see the video clip.
Our nephew, Christopher Pollock, is an artist, and he created the mobile shown here. I particularly like his mobiles and stick figures. This link to his blog https://christopherpollockart.com/tag/kinetic/ will take you to the kinetic area.
Mehrling Muse 
He is a master mover! Your nephew is a brilliant artist! Thank you for sharing the link to his amazing work.
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I love Chris’ work and never tire of seeing his creations.
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terrific Anne!
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I pressed return too soon – had a quick squizz at Christopher’s link and I’ll check it again and show my sons … thank you …
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Great Blog site Christopher has. Did a quick look-see, shall delve further when I have more time. Hi to all.
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I’d love to see some of Chris’ large creations. Grandson David has seen them in his home, and he says they are impressive.
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Very cool, the mobiles are beautiful!
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I never noticed the magnetism! Now I will have to play as well. How fun!
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We tried the angel and the Christmas tree, but they were unresponsive. Note: not dead!!! The life in them comes from air, or in the case of the angel, an errant Logan balloon.
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🙂 Love it.
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What interesting kids!
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Always discovering something!
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Very talented family. I have always enjoyed mobile designs.
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I love mobiles, too, and am happy to be related to Chris.
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Having that magnet in his hands was a lucky accident. Clever grandson, very talented nephew.
Huge New Year Hugs
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xxx Family Group Hugs xxx
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I like to keep these sort of objects and table top “games”, (like the hand made types found at Cracker Barrel gift shops) handy. They keep keep my whole family entertained and usually laughing. Good video clip! Thank you for the link, Anne.
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Very nice art pieces. For company, I like puzzles nearby. Everyone will take turns trying to find at least one or two pieces, but sometimes one will get addicted and have to see it through to the end.
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I’m going to make sure we have puzzles out the next time we have company.
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I went to the website and interesting pieces – I’ve never seen or heard of this type of art. And David discovering what he could do with a magnetic – you could see him smiling in the video you made.
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David laughs more easily than anyone else I know.
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That is good because David will enjoy life more than many people who have forgotten how to smile and just enjoy the simple joys. I think David and Nathaniel get that attitude toward fun and life from you and John.
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We’ve been surrounded with people who have a good sense of humor. Lucky us!
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You are lucky – laughter keeps you young!!!
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I just did a long post and when I cut-and-pasted the narrative into Word, it was in telephone book sized font (no one would know what that means these days) … and in Reader everything seems small. I can’t read Reader tonight as too late … just wondering if it is me as it seemed okay earlier?
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Wonder why that happened. I won’t look at Reader until this afternoon.
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I found out why after I wrote this – I somehow hit a “button”? that reduced the size to 50%. I clicked on the cog wheel up on the notifications area and saw that and increased it to 100% – no idea what I did, but happy I discovered it – wish I found it earlier. I have to reduce the pictures on my blog post from yesterday doesn’t affect in Reader, but they very big. It was a good thing I drafted the post in Word, so knew it was okay but I still worried it would have something wrong/misspelled … even when I previewed the post, it was 50%. I finished Reader last night but stayed up til 1:00 a.m. to do so. I feel badly on the people who comment regularly if I don’t keep up with their posts … I have to take my car for a run today – we have dicey weather a few days this week.
I’d go to the grocery store, don’t need that much and don’t want to go in the afternoon, so will go one morning … I’m set from getting all the groceries in the Fall, just need some fridge stuff, but we are having high winds Monday or Tuesday or don’t want to lose power and lose food, plus the less people to mix and mingle with in Winter time the better – right now the flu in SE Michigan has ramped up, and even with a flu shot and clementines under my belt, I like to be prudent and stay away from crowds … sometimes it sounds like sick bay at the grocery store. I need to drive the car – I had planned a 40-mile trip yesterday to give it a run but we had black ice and freezing fog in the a.m., lasted til past mid-day … we are supposed to have really wintry weather end of the month … then I will get some stuff inside the house done, including learning how to use this big camera on manual settings. I hired a person to shovel snow this Winter so I could get my arm back to 100% but he doesn’t do it unless over 2 inches, so will do one-armed … I need a pic of that!
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Wow! Glad you found a solution to the problem. Good luck with the camera.
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Such a talented family you have! I love it when kids make a discovery through serendipity. It’s more memorable that way!
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