Discovering a creative passion

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made

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my parents smile and that's kind of what

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spurred me on to keep making elaborate

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devices

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i lost interest for a good few years

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while i was a teenager but when i was 22

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i discovered these really great japanese

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machines from a kids tv show

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my roommates and i got really inspired

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and we started building this contraption

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for me it reworked my childhood passion

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and i kept building and building and

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building and that was the beginning of

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my new career as a professional useless

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machine builder from joseph's machines

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on youtube please welcome joseph

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hirscher joseph

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since that first homemade machine slowly

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my machines have got more and more

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elaborate one of the hardest things i've

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ever done was a live demonstration on

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jimmy kimmel

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that was so nerve-wracking because these

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machines they don't work every time but

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they have to when you're on live

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television

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i made a machine at the venice biennale

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that pours water into a plant i had an

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appearance on sesame street hello

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i've made many feeding machines i've

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made a machine to

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stuff a turkey

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a sunscreen dispenser

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a way to lick stamps without having to

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actually taste them

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the biggest machine i've created

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was in a huge postal factory it used 30

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