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modernwizard ([personal profile] modernwizard) wrote2007-10-10 01:06 pm

I think her eyelids move...

 This is an automaton from the 1880s, unrestored, a bust of a harpist playing a song. The skeletal and stained condition makes it all the more affecting and compelling. She's beautiful!

[identity profile] melopoeia.livejournal.com 2007-10-10 05:46 pm (UTC)(link)
gah, why must you post this at work when I cannot look!

gah.

Btw, do a search for a mechanical tiger made by an artist from Brugge.
You can look at more of his work here:
http://www.kezanti.com/

It is mad trippy and I bet you will like it. I wish he could be artist GOH at some Arisia...sigh.


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[personal profile] ashbet 2007-10-10 05:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, WOW -- that is fabulous!!

*steals link with credit*

-- A :D

[identity profile] eyefeather.livejournal.com 2007-10-10 07:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow! They do move. I'd love to be able to make something like that.