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1. Custom Designed Kinetic Mobile Sculpture for the movie The Upside

Custom made hanging moving mobile art sculpture for the 2019 movie The Upside, featuring Bryan Cranston, Nicole Kidman and Kevin Hart. Additional custom designs.

2. Contemporary Mobile Sculptures – Expanding Calder’s Art Form

Expanding the art form of mobiles beyond Alexander Calder’s and other mobile sculpture artists’ work to create new innovative contemporary mobile sculptures.

3. New Contemporary Original Mobile Sculptures in Progress

Photos of new contemporary abstract hanging mobile sculptures currently in progress, based on the same balance structures as Alexander Calder’s mobiles.

4. Custom-Designed Mobile Sculpture for Atrium at Learning Commons at Kettering University

Photos of a large atrium art installation (kinetic mobile sculpture) I custom designed, made and installed. Calder inspired yet contemporary in design.

5. Photos of Large Atrium Sculpture (Kinetic Art Mobile) Installed

Photos of a large atrium sculpture (kinetic mobile) I custom designed, made and installed (via The Art Company) at the newly built Joint and Spine Center at the Christ Hospital in Cincinnati, OH, last month (August 2015).

6. Large Custom Calder-Style Mobile at Snowy Park

It was snowing yesterday so I took this large Calder-style mobile I just finished to the park, thinking the red and black shapes would probably show off nicely against the white of the snow in the photos. It’s a custom made 12 feet (3.5 meter) tall Calderesque mobile made of carbon cold rolled steel made for a client’s two story atrium.

7. Technical Behind-the-Scenes Aspects of Designing, Making and Installing a Large Custom Mobile

Some of the technical (“behind the scenes”) aspects of designing, making and installing a large custom mobile (hanging kinetic sculpture) for an atrium / lobby.

8. Calder Replicas, Calder Style Mobiles, Calder Inspired Mobiles

Where are the lines between mobiles that could be replicas of Alexander Calder’s work, mobiles influenced by Calder’s style and Calder inspired mobiles.

9. Mobiles – 3D Models – Render Animations (Videos)

Render animations I’ve put together of custom mobile designs, ranging in style from Alexander Calder like to the more original, and from small to large.

10. Photos of a Large Mobile (33ft/10m) Suspended by a Crane for Adjustments

Photos of a large mobile (33ft/10m) suspended by a crane for adjustments, which turned out to be very minimal because the balance points and various alignments were calculated beforehand with engineering software. Most of the connections were precise and did not need any adjustments.

11. Proposals / Custom Designs for Large Mobiles for a Three-Story Atrium

Images (renders) of proposals / custom designs of large mobiles for a three-story atrium.

12. Custom Mobile for Robert A. M. Stern Architects at Kips Bay Designer Show House

Custom mobile made for Robert A. M. Stern Architects at Kips Bay Designer Show House New York City.

13. Custom-Made Mobile Sculpture for TV Series And Just Like That

Photos of a mobile sculpture that I custom-made for the television series “And Just Like That…”. The mobile should be visible in Season 2 Episode 5 in 2023.

14. Custom-Designed Mobile for Private Residence in Key Biscayne

Photos of a custom-designed mobile sculpture for a private residence. By the client’s request, the mobile is close in style to Alexander Calder’s mobiles.

15. Busy, Busy, Busy – Some of the Custom Mobiles I’m Currently Working On

I’m sorry about the lack of blog posts lately, I’ve been very busy. Just for now, here are some of the custom mobiles I’m currently working.

16. 3rd Prize Winner – 2015 International Kinetic Art Competition

Three large custom mobiles I made last fall won 3rd Prize in the 2015 International Kinetic Art Competition, organized by the Kinetic Art Organization.

17. Mobiles before Calder – Who Invented Mobiles – A History of Mobiles

A history of mobiles including early hanging kinetic sculptures that could be classified as mobiles before Alexander Calder started to make them.

18. Custom Hanging Mobile 92 with Mies van der Rohe Daybed

A new image of a custom made version of Mobile 92 with the modern classic Mies van der Rohe daybed (to illustrate the size of the mobile). This version is 5.5 feet tall and 4.5 feet wide, made with sheet metal, wire, rivets and a metal weight.

19. First Fully 3D Printed Mobile

Photo of the first test print of a fully 3D printed mobile. It’s working!

20. The 5 Largest Mobiles Worldwide That I’m Aware Of

The 5 largest mobiles worldwide that I’m aware of (they’re all by Alexander Calder).

21. Trailer – Custom Kinetic Mobile Sculpture for the movie The Upside

In early 2017 I custom designed and made a mobile for the movie The Upside. Today the trailer for the film was released in which the mobile is featured several times. The movie is released on January 11th 2019 in which the mobile is featured throughout.

22. Marco Mahler gives new life to the kinetic art form Calder made famous – RHome Magazine

Summary of a new article about kinetic sculptor and artist Marco Mahler giving new life to the kinetic art form of Alexander Calder’s mobile sculptures.