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November 2016.

Central London Outdoor Group (CLOG) walk from Canary Wharf to Bethnal Green (dropped out at Bow).

Making the pulley attachments from copper sheet and brass nails (from a model boat building supplier)

 

Acrobat restoration. The automaton dates from C.1880

played each day at 2pm, it swallows a fish from the stream

Automaton © Bruno Müller

 

Model Animation class; Model Making, Design and Digital Effects course at IADT Dún Laoghaire, Ireland.

Acrobat automaton by Vichy, clockwork c.1880

2020 Funko Pop B9 Robot from Lost In Space and Robby from Forbidden Planet film - 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 - a wind up walking Masudaya ROBOT YM-3 B-9 from also known as GUNTER which stands for General Utility Non Theorizing Environmental Robot

2020 Funko Pop B9 Robot from Lost In Space and Robby from Forbidden Planet film - 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 - a wind up walking Masudaya ROBOT YM-3 B-9 from also known as GUNTER which stands for General Utility Non Theorizing Environmental Robot

In early versions of MUG, the automaton love interest was a different character named Roman, while Erris was a friendly ghost. In the original ending, Nimira thinks that Erris passes on to the next world, but he is in fact given a second chance at life as a second clockwork man. This automaton was built by Ordorio Valdana. The Queen of The Longest Night worries that an evil soul may inhabit the clockwork's body, so she asks Erris to voluntarily go into the body instead. Note: Do not expect the Ordorio that appears in the MUG sequel to bear any resemblance to the one in this comic!

November 2016.

Central London Outdoor Group (CLOG) walk from Canary Wharf to Bethnal Green (dropped out at Bow).

Everything is mechanical and nothing electronic, even the bird chirp noise.

Usually at the Bowes Museum in County Durham.

Modeling/costume/prop/makeup by Diana Vick. Photo by R. "Martin" Armstrong.

birr castle, lactating automaton film set

2020 Funko Pop B9 Robot from Lost In Space and Robby from Forbidden Planet film - 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 - a wind up walking Masudaya ROBOT YM-3 B-9 from also known as GUNTER which stands for General Utility Non Theorizing Environmental Robot

Draft logo for the Animated Automated Automatons, a Moonbots team sponsored by SD Space.

Automaton © Yuri Diniz

 

Model Animation class; Model Making, Design and Digital Effects course at IADT Dún Laoghaire, Ireland.

birr castle, lactating automaton film set

2020 Funko Pop B9 Robot from Lost In Space and Robby from Forbidden Planet film - 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 - a wind up walking Masudaya ROBOT YM-3 B-9 from also known as GUNTER which stands for General Utility Non Theorizing Environmental Robot

Created by Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin for his stage shows.

 

I also took this because I know how much Flickr people love clowns.

Powered by clockwork. Taken at the 2012 Maker Faire.

2020 Funko Pop B9 Robot from Lost In Space and Robby from Forbidden Planet film - 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 - a wind up walking Masudaya ROBOT YM-3 B-9 from also known as GUNTER which stands for General Utility Non Theorizing Environmental Robot

I like the silouette's of the business people walking in the pedestrian tunnel in the foreground. Kind of cyberpunk'ish.

Acrobat restoration. The automaton dates from C.1880

Automata Exhibition at Moray Art Centre

John Grayson's marvellous mechanical take on how the Georgians might have used social media! A brass and enamel automaton made for a museum specialising in the Georgian period.

 

In the staffroom at work today.

 

Taken with Panasonic 20mm f1.7 lens on Panasonic GX7.

The Postcard

 

A postally unused Frith's Series postcard that was distributed by T. W. Phillips, City Studio, Wells. The card, which has a divided back, was printed in England.

 

Jack Blandiver

 

The Wells Nub News featured an interesting article in August 2020 about Jack Blandiver:

 

'He’s a very elderly gentleman, he lives in the

cathedral and his name is Jack. That part of his

name he shares with a load of other quarter jacks.

His surname is Blandiver, though in times gone by,

that was spelt Blandifer.

 

A quarter jack is an automaton, a device that strikes

a bell on the quarter hour. The name is probably

derived from the French, meaning a tool called a

"jacke", used by the craftsmen building church

towers, the steeplejacks.

 

His surname could indicate he bears the name of

his maker, a Mr Bland or even Monsieur Bland.

 

Jack Blandiver lives in north aisle of the cathedral,

30 feet up in the air. The empire he surveys is a

mechanical one.

 

He can see the internal face of the oldest surviving

clock face in the world. It dates from 1390.

 

As well as showing the time on a 24-hour dial, it

reflects the motion of the sun and the moon. Jack

never moves from his perch, so he finds it useful to

see the phases of the moon and the time since the

last new moon.

 

This way he gets to know how well the inside of the

cathedral will be lit through the long dark nights he

has to endure.

 

Also on the inside of the building and striking on the

hour there are miniature knights. They come out from

the clock’s workings and perform a mock joust,

knocking each other from their horses, condemned to

an eternal fight in which there will never be a winner.

 

The inner workings of the clock have had a chequered

history. Constructed in 1392, the clock was converted to

a pendulum and anchor escapement in the 17th. century.

 

The original mechanism was later given on loan to the

Science Museum in London in 1884.

 

Out of Jack’s sight are the external features of the clock

on the cathedral’s north side. Its outside face has a Latin

inscription "Nequid pereat" meaning "That it might not

perish" or, as a guide will tell you, "Keep busy".

 

Jack Blandiver certainly does that'.

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With The Franklin Institute Curator and Historian Charles Penniman.

All the circuit earth connections soldered together to form a rail.

 

February 2012

 

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