Magnetic Ball Face

I built this on my white board above my desk - a bit of good, hard lighting gave it a quality I like

Bead Ribbons

Inspired by some ulu bead work I saw online, a 2D magnetic ball sculpture on my white board

Step Tower

A tower made from decreasing radius cylinders; in this case the cross-sections are 8, 10, 12 ad 14 ball circles

Tower Bridge

Another magnetic ball creation I made while programming...

The Pavillion

An odd magnetic ball structure raised on a rusty iron can.

Mushroom Tree

This rather odd tree/mushroom/umbrella like construction from the magnetic balls

Balls - Cylindrical Forms

Some simple string tubes made from the balls.

Magnetic Balls - Intro

I wanted to take a series of pictures of the tiny spherical rare-earth magnets often marketed as Bucky-Balls. These are not (as one might be tempted to believe from the naming) a Buckminster Fuller Ball which is a much more interesting (but way too small to photograph) object.

I have had a silver set of 216 for some time but this year got two more (gold and black) sets for my birthday. Here's my first intro photos: