Brett Doar
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Brett Doar is an American contraptionist known for building Rube Goldberg machines and other interactive and kinetic devices. Doar is best known for his roles as a primary engineer for the Rube Goldberg machine in OK Go's "This Too Shall Pass" music video,[1] lead engineer and creative director for "Red Bull Kluge,"[2] and creator of GoldieBlox's "Princess Machine".[3] He lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
Doar was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts and was raised in Charlotte, NC. As an undergraduate he studied architecture, linguistics, literature and screenwriting at 4 universities before earning his B.A. from New School University in New York City. He earned an M.F.A. from the Arts, Computation and Engineering program at UC Irvine in 2009.[4] He has worked as a commercial fisherman in the Bering Sea, a bus driver, a film and video editor, and a teacher at the preschool, middle school and university level.