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More and more!

The machine is coming on leaps and bounds, we are almost ready to assemble all the boxes in the room, as well as create some totally outragous shoes! Some shoes have been given out to local artists and designers with the message - give the shoe a personality and character, the more bizarre and fun the better!

We ave configured some of the most complicated moving parts on the machine including piston powered dolls legs that play a keyboard, and tape reels.

All is on track to start filming early next week.

Day 3 of the build

Today there has been much progress with the machines image. Working our way down to the more detailed aspects, all of the main structure is now complete and ideas for specific animated parts have been flowing.

The wiring of LEDs has brought the machine to life and many moving objects have been embedding into the structure. These Include a painted keyboard, fan, the conveyor belt gubbins, an equalizer made of baubles, and cogs.

We also made a path of holes in the main body for a snakelike ducting tube to move and slide in and out of - the shot planned for this will be highly dynamic as part of the machine will wriggle out of the holes twisting and turning then dissapearing back before settling down to permanently form part of the structure. (see image of metal ducting launching out of a hole)

a busy day...

Today we worked out the basic shape of the machine and started to attach the basic objects. Managed to get loads done so the machine should be well on the way by the end of tomorrow.

so far we have added the basic non moving elements. Several moving, cause and effect elements are planned and will be added in the next few days - including moving dials/knobs/tubes/pipes/chimneys/legs and arms. this thing is going to be truly bonkers!

here's our progress in images:

Ordered the boxes...and a few other things!

Ordered the boxes from a site that lets you build your own, this way we were able to specify our exact dimensions and order a variety of sizes, these should arrive in a few days. also we got some corrugated paper, coloured vinyl tapes and some other choice parts!

Some more objects

These are some more of the objects that will be built into the machine, with more to be gathered in the coming days. We hope to have the machine constructed by next monday/tuesday, ready to start filming.

Initial Objects

We spent the last week gathering materials for the machine. Now that the studio room is available we started the process of moving everything we need into the space ready to start building.

These images show the objects and components we plan to use to build the machine. Some of the parts have movable elements that can be animated and we are planning to paint a lot of the objects. (see image of paint pots for our colour scheme)

There will be a lot of shiny metalic parts and even blue LEDs to set off the flourecent pinks and blues that will give the machine an 80's electro style. A lot of the electrical equipment is actually from the 80's too so should add to this style.

Backlit @ The Factory

For the next couple of weeks we'll be working at The Factory with an art organisation called Backlit. Backlit is run by a group of local artists and they are happy to let us use a great space within the studio.

http://backlit.org.uk/

The studio is 24/7 access and we will be getting the kickers delivered here in a few days! for now we are gathering materials for the machine...