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Taken with Olympus OM-1 | Kodak BW400CN (exp. ?) | Dec16 | Edited | Writer Kostas Peroulis at his house | His first book, the collection of short stories Automata, was published in 2015 by Antipodes
Finally got to go out & airbrush the Frog (thanks to the break in the rain!)
Think he looks pretty good, might add a few little details, but pretty much done.
Next Step: Building Mechanics to make him jump!!!
This is the output of a Cellular automata system developed using a Spartan 3 Starter Kit FPGA board. The user could pause the automata, change the frame rate, apply 16 different rules (Conway's life, Brian's brain, parity, lichens, time tunnel, Greenberg, among others), seed it with a mouse-drawn pattern and choose among two color palettes.
Some features and numbers for the curious:
-Resolution: 320x240
-Inputs: 8 switches, 4 push buttons, PS/2 mouse
-Output: 3-bit VGA
-Colors: 27 (using temporal and spatial dithering)
-System clock: 30MHz max.
-Moore neighborhood.
-16 rules (limited only by the number of switches, more rules can be trivially added).
These pictures were obtained by photographing the CRT display that received the VGA signal.
More info here, and the rest of the pictures are on my photostream. If you are interested in the VHDL source code, please let me know. I will gladly share it with anyone.
Disclaimer: These pictures were edited using Photoshop to increase contrast and in some cases color inversion has been applied. Color inversion was not a feature of this system, but it can be trivially implemented.
The stag's head was removable and served as a drinking cup that was automatically filled by the internal mechanism.
Photographed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, New York.
Daum marries her pedantic automaton George in May 1920. John Heartfield is very glad of it
Le personnage appelé DAUM dans les tableaux de George Grosz est une représentation satirique et critique de la société de l’époque. DAUM est un acronyme pour “Deutsch-Amerikanische Union Mädchen” (Jeune fille de l’Union Germano-Américaine), et ce personnage incarne les idéaux et les contradictions de la modernité et de la société bourgeoise de l’après-guerre. Extrait de GPT-4
Oeuvre de George Grosz (Berlin, 1893-1959)
1920,
Copie de l'original acquis en 1995 : aquarelle, crayon, encre, collage
Oeuvre présentée dans l'exposition "L'art à Berlin 1880 – 1980", Berlinische Galerie, Musée d'art moderne, Berlin
i>Le mouvement Dada est né comme une réaction politique et artistique à la Première Guerre mondiale. Les principaux protagonistes à Berlin étaient Hannah Höch, Raoul Hausmann, John Heartfield, George Grosz et Johannes Baader. Les dadaïstes ont utilisé leur travail pour lancer des attaques radicales contre le nationalisme et le militarisme allemands. Dada a développé de nouvelles formes d'expression artistique qui répondaient également à un désir d'éclairer le public......
La succession Hannah Höch (1889-1978) et la succession Raoul Hausmann (1886-1971), toutes deux conservées à la Berlinische Galerie, constituent un fonds unique en son genre, tant par son ampleur que par sa qualité, consacré au mouvement DADA berlinois. Elles documentent les fondements intellectuels de la révolte dadaïste et répertorient les nombreuses activités des protagonistes de DADA, dont l'«anti-art » à motivation sociale a été une impulsion critique qui a contribué à définir le développement du modernisme... (extraits du site du musée)
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La collection de la Berlinische Galerie... est un voyage dans le temps à travers Berlin : l'Empire allemand, la République de Weimar, la dictature nationale-socialiste, un nouveau départ après 1945, la guerre froide dans une ville divisée et les modèles sociaux et de vie alternatifs qui se sont développés à l'ombre de la Mur à l'Est et à l'Ouest.... Extrait du site du musée
berlinischegalerie.de/ausstellung/kunst-in-berlin-1880-1980/
Automaton clock in Southgate Street, Gloucester.
This fantastic spectacle was manufactured by Niehus Bros of Bristol.
The figures striking the quarter hours and the chimes represent the constituent countries of the United Kingdom. They are (L–R) Northern Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales. In the centre is Old Father Time, who strikes the hours. The figures sticke chimes in the notes of B, A, D, and G respectively with father time striking the hours in a resounding D.
January 2017
Inspired by JK Brickworks, Pegasus Automation by Amida Na, and Laputa: Castle in the Sky music box by Hwang Byeong Jun.
As part of this art installation, an automaton tagger perches and bombs away. Here, an art aficionado passes by, unconcerned. This is a piece from the Barry McGee show. See artery.wbur.org/2013/04/08/barry-mcgee-ica-2 for more on the show, and a shot that shows the writer figure better.
4th Century BC Krater.
In the Jatta. National Archaeological Museum.
The Story - A giant Automaton made of Bronze to protect Europa from pirates and invaders. He circled the island's shores three times daily.
According to Brian A. Sparkes, "The most detailed treatment in literature is to be found in the Argonautica ... however, we have detailed images of the episode, 150 years earlier, dated to around 400 BC."
Talos is said to have been made by Hephaestus at the request of Zeus, to protect Europa from people who would want to kidnap her. In some versions of the myth, Talos is forged by the inventor Daedalus
In the Cretan dialect, talôs was the equivalent of the Greek hêlios, the Sun: the lexicon of Hesychius of Alexandria notes simply "Talos is the Sun". In Crete, Zeus was worshipped as Zeus Tallaios, "Solar Zeus", absorbing the earlier god as an epithet in the familiar sequence. The god was identified with the Tallaia, a spur of the Ida range in Crete. On the coin from Phaistos (illustration) he is winged; in Greek vase-paintings and Etruscan bronze mirrors he is not. The ideas of Talos vary widely, with one consistent detail: in Greek imagery outside Crete, Talos is always being vanquished: he seems to have been an enigmatic figure to the Greeks themselves.
Talos is described by Greeks in two versions. In one version, Talos is a gift from Hephaestus to Minos, forged with the aid of the Cyclopes in the form of a bull.
In the other version, Talos is a gift from Zeus to Europa.Or he may have been the son of Kres, the personification of Crete;in Argonautica Talos threw rocks at any approaching ship to protect his island.
In the Byzantine encyclopedia called the Suda, it is said that when the Sardinians did not wish to release Talos to Minos, he heated himself – by jumping into a fire – and clasped them in his embrace.
Talos had one vein, which went from his neck to his ankle, bound shut by only one bronze nail. The Argo, transporting Jason and the Argonauts, approached Crete after obtaining the Golden Fleece. As guardian of the island, Talos kept the Argo at bay by hurling great boulders at it. According to pseudo-Apollodorus' Bibliotheke, Talos was slain when Medea the sorceress either drove him mad with drugs, or deceived him into believing that she would make him immortal by removing the nail. In Argonautica, Medea hypnotized him from the Argo, driving him mad with the keres she raised, so that he dislodged the nail, and "the ichor ran out of him like molten lead", exsanguinating and killing him. Peter Green, translator of Argonautica, notes that the story is somewhat reminiscent of the story regarding the heel of Achilles
In Argonautica, Apollonius notes that "the ichor... ran out like molten lead". A. B. Cook first suggested that the single vein closed by a nail or plug referred to the lost-wax method of casting. Robert Graves (whose interpretation of Greek mythology is controversial among many scholars) suggests that this myth is based on a misinterpretation of an image of Athena demonstrating the process of lost-wax casting of steel, which Daedalus would have brought to Sardinia
This is a shot of a marionette automaton band that might have been seen in a fairground from times gone by, and will animate the puppets along with a song when a coin is inserted into the cabinet, this one of several in the Museum of York.
Between 1911-1950 Al Jolson made a name for himself entertaining in music hall across america and the world. Stage paint was typical for music hall, Jolson was one of many known for 'blacking up' and playing popular tunes.
This might be seen as less than politically correct, or at least embarracing ...
While I think this will make most people cringe, it should not to take anything away from Jolson he is known as one of the most prolific entertainers of the first half of the twentieth century, and was known to fight for the civil rights that we all take for granted. I don't know much about his act but the times of the stage paint he was known for has now long gone, this in contrast to a number of big name comedians that traded on racial bigotry, and are still have a following.
A street in new York was apparently renamed recently, which caused a reaction, with many jumping to the prejusticed view that he was a bigot, before others attempted to correct that view...
Macro Mondays theme : Embarrassed.
Explored briefly before I managed to switch the picture to private/friends and family :(
Highest position: 202 on Monday, August 23, 2010
B9 Robot in Red and Blue Toy Form - Lost In Space the 1960s TV Show Television - series 1965 - 1968 science fiction sci-fi adventure Irwin Allen Space Family Robinson Future Danger Will Robinson android mechanical man automaton plastic windup toy toys box art screen grab also known as GUNTER which stands for General Utility Non Theorizing Environmental Robot
The basis is the paper model of "Rob Ives" (Mesh Gearbox Type 2)
From my modified with two circular gears to move any figures. Gearbox download onBasis Papiermodell von "Rob Ives" (Mesh Gearbox Type 2)
Von mir modifiziert mit zwei kreisenden Ritzeln zum Bewegen beliebiger Figuren. Gearbox download auf: www.robives.com/blog/meshgeartype2
The next big square in Avignon is Place de l'Horloge (Clock Tower Square).
My only shot of the Clock tower.
The square took it's modern name of Place de l'Horloge in 1471 when the town installed a clock on top of the tower. Two automatons called Jacquemarts ring out the hours.
In 1447 the councils of Avignon bought the Gothic Livrée d’Albane from the Benedictines of Saint-Laurent with the intention of making it into a public building and transforming the tower into a belfry. It wasn’t until the nineteenth century that the regional council decided to provide the city with a genuine Hôtel de Ville (City Hall). The city’s architect, Joseph-Auguste Joffroy drew up the plans. To brighten the facade the architect Feuchères contribued a balcony supported by Corinthian columns and added peristyle columns.
This project was at the center of a larger debate pitting the municipality against one of the great defenders of the cultural integrity of buildings, Esprit Requien, who was supported by Prosper Mérimée.
The first stone was lain on March 29, 1845, and municipal service offices were installed in the old Hôtel des Monnaies building, in the interim. While construction was not completely achieved until 1856, the building was inaugurated on September 24, 1851 by the President of the Republic, Prince Louis Napoléon Bonaparte. Paul Poncet was the mayor of Avignon at the time.
The style is composite and differs at each level : round arches topped with double scrolled tympana on the ground level ; a series of rectangular windows on the mezzanine floor ; classic windows topped with triangular pediments and separated by pilasters on the second floor. The cost of construction reached 628.000 francs.
On the tower, on which a campanile was added in 1471, remains of the original cardinal’s livrée. The tower’s clock, from which the plaza gets its name, features statues of Jacquemart and his wife which strike the hour.
The current statues were placed there in 1856.
The municipality of Pourquery de Boisserin undertook the adornment of the main hall by commissioning the ornamenter Edouard Lefèvre of Montpellier, and the local painters Meissonier, Jules Flour, Lina Bill, and Clément-Brun. The four groups of figures surrounding the main doors and female wrestlers at the top of the impressive fireplace of this enormous 90 meters plus room are the work of Félix Charpentier.
In 1978, the Hôtel de Ville added an annex on Rue Racine, behind this building. It was built on the site of what had been the headquarters of the Amis du Roi in the nineteenth century and, from 1840 on, was the Avignon gendarmerie.
This cute Animated Clock with the name Karakuri-chan in the “LaLaport Funabashi Shopping Center” is noticing us that it's currently out of order, hence the tear and text cloud stickers on its face. Automaton clocks are widespread in Japan, where they are known as karakuri-dokei.
Public Clock Photography / 16:9 remastered 2017
Illustration by George Cruikshank from Charles Dickens’ “Sketches by Boz”.
Scanned from an original 1910 Dickens Centenary Edition published in London by Chapman and Hall.
Copper-gilt oval table clock, ornamented with either embossed or engraved scrollwork. The farmer standing on the top indicates the time with his staff. The cow's eyes move back and forth, and when a switch is set, the milkmaid 'milks' the cow, moving her arms up and down.
Poland, unknown maker, 1575-1585.
October 4, 2012, Canon 7D.
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I was soundly beaten by the gracious & awesome Jack M. from Automaton Pictures' pilot Alterf Skendiv but not before shooting his D-Wing to SMITHERINES! Now he'll have to build another ship and i'm using BRAIN CONTROL to make him create a T-Wing! MUAHAHAHAHAH! Thanks for a great contest to both JM/AP/AS and my first opponent Clone Emperor for a great contest!
Also a big THANKS! to VolumeX for the photography tips, aside from the space wrinkles and awesome lens flare i think these are much better than the ones I took for the first round.
here's the rest of the pictures I never got around to posting, I'm still really happy with this ship especially considering I basically built it in one night. =-D
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Zippity Aviary's D-Wing Starfighter (ZeeAye Shipyards DWYCK-92 Scout/Patrol Fighter)
Here's where you put the story when you write it... getting tight on time lemme post this then write my nonsense and edit this! thought Zippity...
The message was garbled but ZeeAye knew what he had to do. First things first he would collect the necessary supplies and pay a visit to his favorite spice den, hopefully Tahsoka Ano was there, he kind of had a thing for her. Years ago Zippity had a contract that required a special ship. Dr. Aviary built the DWYCK with misdirection in mind... at first glance it seemed to have just two small blasters in the nose, about right for anyone who might have business in the Outer Rim. But Zippity wasn't just anyone...
The ship was powered by a new modification of the standard Girodyne sublight engines he'd ordered for so many of his commissioned ships, but he had a new wrinkle on the old workhorse. By redirecting the powerflow as only Doc Zip could he was able to double the power while maintaining his full cruising range and actually increased maneuverability. This was standard fare for Z.A., the real stroke of genius proved to be a completely new type of hyperdrive that could get point SIX past light speed! Of course Zippity didn't advertise that. He painted it brightly to affect the look of a cruising yacht and disguised the real weapons load... Docking port stabilizers? who needs em! Zippity disguised a pair of rapid fire laser canons where similar craft might have had docking clamps... he wasn't making friends or inspecting ships... he was there for The Job and to get out. He didn't think anyone would like what they got if they got in his way. A full salvo of Zippity Industries top of the line homing missles with multipurpose programmable warheads would easily take out a SUPER Star Destroyer.
Even though it was just made for a contract it soon became one of Zippity's favorite ship, almost as synonymous with his arrival as sabotage, meyhem and destruction.
Poor Alterf Skendif probably knew that the Gang Starr Guild wanted him out of business... he thought he could afford to deal with their annoyance, he was doing well... he couldn't know he was just a mark to the one man you couldn't afford to have coming for you. Zippity could feel the credits in his pouch already as he made his way through hyperspace Nice & Smooth
Thanks to Jack/Alterf/Automaton for the awesome competition and kind words this round!
January 2017
Inspired by JK Brickworks, Pegasus Automation by Amida Na, and Laputa: Castle in the Sky music box by Hwang Byeong Jun.
Lúc Carrigan was said to be piloting one of the Rebellion's signature Xyloplanes during the Battle of Yorkshire, during which he managed to destory the Queen's flagship dirigible H.M.S Death Star , killing the nefarious Grand Duke Tarkin and achieving the first real victory against the British Empire.
The Xyloplane, named for its unusual wood construction in the back engines and propellors, is of Welsh design, and was built to be a craft for the burgeoning Imperial Army. However, the Welsh people soon grew tired of the Empire's many trespasses against their nation, and thus joined with the Rebellion, bringing the Xyloplane with it.
The ship is equipped with a powerful boiler that operates its four engines, as well as two high-pressurized torpedoes- the weapon that was said to have brought about the end of the Death Star. The ship is often nicknamed the "X-plane", for the distinctive shape its wings form during flight.
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My steampunk X-Wing, built for FBTB's MOC Madness 2014: Steam Wars Returns!
Partly inspired by this sketch.
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