Magnetic poetry-writer automaton
Today in London's Spitalfields Market, I was blown away by this wonderful little automaton, a tiny mechanical poet who writes graceful magnetic poetry when you spin a magnet beneath him. The proud maker -- who goes by Alefs in Wonderland -- let me shoot a little video of it (apologies for the crummy focus later in the shoot).
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How it is with iambic pentameter?
seems like you may have uploaded the wrong take?
Did you link the wrong video?
This was 10 seconds of what looked like setup.
There appears to be a little man sitting at a desk with a quill pen on top of the contraption...
Is it the Atom, or Hank Pym? Because Pym is getting around these days...
i wanted that machine to be randomly pulling pieces of magnetic poetry and putting them together. I guess i had the wrong idea.
gives me an ideer... magnetic fridge poetry words, tumbler, sorter/aligner, conveyor, critics....
He was probably having a hard time getting it in focus because he wasn't using a lens with a shallow depth of focus, evindenced by the crisp focus of the gentleman holding up the purple papers, bearded face.
I'm not quite sure what I'm seeing here?
I only see ten seconds of video, and cannot see what is going on, is this a problem on my end?
Whoops. Just posted as anonymous, but I was trying to quote Anon @ #9. I'm really not sure what it is I'm looking at here.
is it a tiny guy sitting at a desk writing?
I'm also seeing about 10 seconds of video and then it quits.
Often people move in too close with video cams. Most cams can't focus close enough to resolve a tiny object like this one - yer better off staying farther away and keeping it sharp. Or learn how to use macro. I shoot video for a living, I'm sorry, I see this all the time and it just bugs the living daylights out of me. Can't people see that the darn thing is blurry?
i thought the previous video in mr. doctorow's flickr stream was better.