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...in the box. Stamp, paper and envelope all in one hit. Magic.
And no doubt delivered by lunchtime.
This is for Mary and Charles. I worked from photos, these characters are all based on real people, The order of the cards had to be perfect and pre-arranged.
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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.
Disaster at Sea – Paper automaton
105 years ago, at night from 14. to the 15th of April, 1912, the „RMS Titanic“ sank after the collision with an iceberg. Of the 2200 people on board, 711 castaways from the “RMS Carpathia” were alive rescued.
The paper automaton "The Shipwreck" can be purchased at: www.cool4cats.biz I have modified and expanded it as shown here.
By far, one of the best displays was this little automaton. Seemingly innocent and perhaps not in the best working order, one can pop a coin into its awaiting slot for a sordid little amusement: The chubby guy in front waves a hanky with his limp wrist while giving a hand job to the dapper guy standing behind him under a streetlight. It's awesome! We loved it!
This is for Mary and Charles. I worked from photos, these characters are all based on real people, The order of the cards had to be perfect and pre-arranged.
This sweet faced dolly began her life in the playroom as a ballerina, gracefully tip-toeing her tutu-clad dainty frame on her pointes and feeling quite lonely despite the company of all the other toys, until one Christmas Eve new gifts were unwrapped and a particularly dandy wooden soldier was added to the ever-growing toy posse.
She became moonstruck over his cordial manners and his gentle heart, and he was enamored of her auburn locks and sweet nature.
Naturally, he commissioned the playroom's Stitching Bees to make her a ladylike jacket out of his own, and to this day, even if it's not sparkling new anymore, she still cherishes it and wears it morning, noon, and night.
This whole series of paintings - titled The Secret Life Of Toys - revolves around an imagined magical playroom, and is inspired by vintage toys, automatons and sweet memories of childhood. As a munchkin that loved dreaming up what my playthings were up to when I wasn't around, I am so happy to finally jot these flights of fancy down on canvas!
I created these for a 'painted editorial', featured in this month's La Petite Magazine (issue 6, pp. 58-63) , and after having ooh-ed and aah-ed for quite some time over their lovely publication, I was thrilled to be approached by them a while ago for a collaboration to be featured in their latest issue.I have been working on this project behind-the-scenes, and now that the magazine's current issue is released, I am so excited to be able to share this painted editorial with you!
This 'painted editorial' is now a fashion spread, and I must admit I had the loveliest of times working on this feature, especially since I got to style what each little cutie wears myself!
acrylics on canvas, 10 x 12 inch., 13 x 15 inch. framed
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
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This is for Mary and Charles. I worked from photos, these characters are all based on real people, The order of the cards had to be perfect and pre-arranged.
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!
This is one of many, many automatons on display in the House on the Rock. Each one is coin operated and ready to amuse!
This is a photograph, not yet widely circulated, of experimental research into creating a cyborg. Unfortunately I cannot reveal my sources, for reasons that should be obvious.
Here, the process is incomplete. The human skin has not yet covered the metallic, robotic parts. There is evidence to suggest that human organs are used and remain largely intact, however a metallic-like substance has been "grown" using similar methods to growing crystals.
One source states that the metallic substance contains human gene codes and, therefore can be "grown" organically. This is probably done using nanotechnological methods, in a similar fashion to"organic computing".
I apologise for the quality of the photograph, but the photograph was taken very quickly at a location that I cannot reveal.
The ethical issues surrounding this discovery are monumental. However I can assure all viewers that we witnessed no signs of life, whether physical or pertaining to consciousness.
More infomation can be found by contacting me by Flickr Mail.
Thank you
The Yurakucho Marion Clock
The Marion Building has a SEIKO Automaton Clock located above the front entrance. The clock’s face, with a diameter of 2.6 meters, opens automatically and dolls appear playing musical instruments each hour on the hour from 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Public Clock Photography / 16:9 remastered 2017
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