{"id":139,"date":"2011-01-18T14:38:51","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T22:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=139"},"modified":"2026-01-30T18:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T23:10:10","slug":"minor-uu-folk-heroes-no-85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2011\/01\/minor-uu-folk-heroes-no-85\/","title":{"rendered":"Minor UU folk heroes, no. 85"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I just heard a rumor that one of the people who developed and built the Rube Goldberg device seen in the March, 2010, music video \u201cThis Too Shall Pass\u201d by OK Gos, was formerly a member of a Unitarian Universalist youth group for which I was a youth advisor. Parents, be warned: the Unitarian Universalist values we impart to your children may affirm that creating geeky-artsy-coolness is an acceptable thing to do with one\u2019s life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By the way, an article in the February, 2011, issue of <em>Fast Company<\/em> magazine asserts that it took 85 takes to make the Rube Goldberg machine work in time to the music in a single shot. That\u2019s 85 televisions destroyed. That makes it all worth while, if you ask me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"665\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-30-at-5.45.54-PM-1024x665.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12822\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-30-at-5.45.54-PM-1024x665.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-30-at-5.45.54-PM-300x195.png 300w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-30-at-5.45.54-PM-768x499.png 768w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-30-at-5.45.54-PM-1536x998.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-30-at-5.45.54-PM-2048x1330.png 2048w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-30-at-5.45.54-PM-1200x779.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Screen grab from a video about the making of the Rube Goldberg video.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just heard a rumor that one of the people who developed and built the Rube Goldberg device seen in the March, 2010, music video \u201cThis Too Shall Pass\u201d by OK Gos, was formerly a member of a Unitarian Universalist youth group for which I was a youth advisor. Parents, be warned: the Unitarian Universalist &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2011\/01\/minor-uu-folk-heroes-no-85\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Minor UU folk heroes, no. 85&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pop-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12823,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions\/12823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}