Spooner's First Puppet to Swim the Channel
From the wonderful mind of Paul Spooner, we have an automaton in which a figure is controlling a swimming marionette. There is something delightfully reflexive in an automaton figure manipulating a puppet figure. You -- as the user of the automaton -- are animating them both...which leads to even deeper questions.
Keep your eyes open at the end of the video to see the ingenious profile-cam used to make the swimmer's arms move.
See more of Paul Spooner's Automata at The Cabaret Mechanical Theatre web site.
Keep your eyes open at the end of the video to see the ingenious profile-cam used to make the swimmer's arms move.
See more of Paul Spooner's Automata at The Cabaret Mechanical Theatre web site.
Labels: Cabaret Mechanical Theatre, Paul Spooner, Puppets, UK, video
posted by Dug North on 9/17/2008
2 Comments:
This to me is a witty integration of their Barecats and How to swim pieces. Once again, Paul and Matt have demonstrated the beauty of simple designs and machines.
Charles
There's a sequence at the beginning of "Being John Malkovich" which has a similar idea.
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