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Gears of a wall clock, presumably not a very accurate one by the way those gears mesh.
Macro Mondays: Timepieces
This picture was taken by a friend of mine, a talented Pinay photographer who will be working for me soon. I just photoshopped this beautiful self portrait.
Horloge de la gare de l'est à Paris, France
WEEK 12Artistic: OrangeYour inspiration this week is orange. Either the color orange or an actual orange. Or both.
Time slides away
In between thoughts
Emotions and attitudes
Me loving you into
Yesterdays dreams
Slipping and sliding
Peeking and hiding
Pop shop melodies
Located in a former power station - this location has been opened partially as a museum, a venue for events and now and again, we suspect, used for filming the odd spot of porn.
Boom !
As a few have already guessed right, the little crank on the base has a purpose. The turning reveals an unique clockwork function in each castles.
I tried to inspire the motions by the animations in the Game of Thrones show intro, but kept it very simple to blend in with the castle design. Functionality is not one of my strengths so it was quite a challenge, but an interesting one.
List of all castles:
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I hope you like my series as much as I liked building it.
Your feedback was already overwhelming, so I'm motivated to work on a sequel for the next year. Stay tuned!
Tick tock
Tick tock
Snip snip
Chop chop.
Inspired by Dishonored 2, Return to Oz and D&D characters.
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Glasgow
The nickname “Clockwork Orange” for the Glasgow Underground comes from a blend of visual design and cultural reference:
Origins of the Nickname
In the late 1970s, during a major refurbishment of the Glasgow Subway, the new trains were painted in a bright orange livery—officially called *Strathclyde Red*.
The system runs in a circular loop, with trains moving both clockwise and counter-clockwise, evoking a sense of mechanical precision—like clockwork.
During a visit to the mock-up of the new trains, Sir Peter Parker, then Chair of British Rail, reportedly remarked:
“So these are the original Clockwork Orange.”
The phrase stuck, blending the orange colour with the idea of a clockwork system, and nodding to Anthony Burgess’s novel and Stanley Kubrick’s film, though the subway has no direct connection to either.
Cultural Resonance
The nickname adds a layer of quirky charm to one of the world’s oldest underground systems (third after London and Budapest).
Despite its compact size and limited reach, the Glasgow Subway remains a symbolic loop through time, especially for locals and psycho-geographers.
El secreto de la felicidad es tener gustos sencillos y una mente compleja, el problema es que a menudo la mente es sencilla y los gustos son complejos. (F.Savater)
Timepieces theme
The inner workings of an antique Waterbury Clock Company mantel clock from the late 1890s-early 1900s.
I took this close-up shot of Rachel while the optometrist, my sister, used this machine to check the pressure of Rachel's eyes during her eye examination. The shot immediately reminded me of Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange" and I decided to complete the tribute by applying this texture (courtesy of ghostbones) to dirty up the shot.
By the way, that blue glowing tip is, in fact, touching her eye.
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Stiff Chainey writes for readers beyond the mainstream – stories that destroy the moral values of the civilization at their very core, vulgar, poetic, flagrant and straight up.
Stiff Chainey stands for classic underground stuff: Sex, drugs, Rock'n'Roll and bittersweet black humor.
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Build for Greeble De Mayo week 2: Clockwork.
Greeble De Mayo is a contest held on the Iron Builder Discord server. Max allowed size of the build is 8x8x8 studs.
The space between the cogs on the gears and the slight space between the gears all allow for perfect meshing of the gears so we can read the correct time from the face of our clocks! Let's hear it for the tiny spaces!!!
There's plenty to see dockside at Sullivan's Cove. I have previously shown you the classic vintage steam crane built in 1899 (see the link below). But there is an even older mechanical one that dates from around 1885. This one is still used by small boats to load and unload.
It all runs like clockwork. Perfect mechanical engineering, and a thing of beauty. You'll find it right near the seafood outlets along the dock.