The Brass Goggled Coders
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- Leonardo Da Vinci, full name: Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, was born on 15th April 1452, and died 2nd May 1519. He was born the out-of-wedlock son of the wealthy lawyer Messer Piero Fruosino di Antonio da Vinci and a peasant woman by the name of Caterina. We know very little about his early life, except that he lived the first five years of his life with his mother, then later went to live with his father. His father married four times during his lifetime. He was informally educated in Latin, geometry and mathematics.
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He was a Italian polymath, an individual with an expertise in a range of skills. His skills spanned from painter, musician and sculptor to inventor, mathmatician, architecht and engineer to botanist, anatomist, cartographer, and geologist. He is widely regarded as the archetypal Renaissance man, and perhaps the person to be skilled in the most diverse range of applications, possibly due to his unceasing experimentations with frequently cutting-edge and beyond techniques, which often had disastrous results. His primary skill, as recognised by many people, is painting. His relatively few (approximately 15) surviving works include the almost universally famous Mona Lisa, believed to be the most famous portrait; The Last Supper, the most reproduced religious painting of all time and the iconic anatomical drawing of the 'Vitruvian Man'. Da Vinci is also well known for his ingenuity as an inventor, producing designs for a tank-like armoured vehicle, flying machines (less functional than many of his other designs, although he did design a helicopter style machine), mirror-focused solar power, an adding machine and the double hull design of ship building. Few of these designs were feasible with the technology available to him. He also made important discoveries in other fields, such as creating a rudimentary theory regarding geological plate tectonics and other important discoveries in the fields of optics, hydrodynamics and anatomy, among others. However, he did not publish these findings, so these discoveries had no great effect on later scientific developments. If they had, techological advancement may have been siginificantly accelerated to, or above, modern levels.
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Personally, I have always been greatly inspired by Da Vinci's prowess in both technical drawing and inventing, not to mention his constant experimentation, and feel he should be revered for his technological ingenuity hence my images in his style, and choice of subject for my project.
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- Freelance animator and producer Cyriak Harris is known for his surrealist and often quite disturbing animated shorts. He uses a combination of Adobe Aftereffects and Photoshop to produce these. The vidoes display a distinct surrealist and psychidelic style, often based on fractual geometry and usually with a "distinct British theme". His animations often feature his hometown of Brighton, celebrities and television shows. Personally I quite like his work, as my own style is often surrealist.
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He has been a regular contributor to b3ta, a digital art community launched in 2001, since 2004. He has had commissions from Coke, Sumo TV and other companies. He has also been director for various music vidoes. His Youtube account features a compilation of his animations, which have been noticed by many in the blogging world.
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His work also led to a short interview with BBC South East in November 2006. The BBC commissioned his video "DeadEnders" as a sequel to Cyriak's earlier "BeastEnders". Based on the British soap opera EastEnders it explored the idea of all the characters that have died in EastEnders going on a "brain-eating zombie rampage". Both of these films were featured on the BBC Three comedy series Comedy Shuffle. Other than this, he has not been recognised to a significant extent outside of certain parts of the internet.
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- Futurism was an early 20th century Italian social and artistic movement. It was largely confined to Italy, although parallel movements did appear in England, Russia and elsewhere. Those of the Futurist movement experimented in every medium of art, from the traditional painting, sculpture and ceramics to literature, architecture and theater, even extending to gastronomy. In practice, much of their work was influenced by Cubism, and has been described as being of "plastic dynamism".
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Futurism was founded by Italian writer Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. It was launched in his Futurist Manifesto, which he published orginally on 5 February 1909. Additonally, it was reprinted by French Newspaper Le Figaro on 20th February. Marinetti was soon joined by the painters Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà, Giacomo Balla, Gino Severini and the composer Luigi Russolo. As suggested by the name of the movement, Marinetti expressed a passitionate distaste for everything old, particularly artistic (and political) tradition. The Futurists were fascinated with new visual technology, such as chronophotography, which was an early predecessor to animation and cinema, allowing an object to be shown across a sequence of frames. This technique, and other new developments, encouraged the Futurists to attempt to evoke a sensation of movement in their artwork. Those of the movement admired anything that represented the technological advancement of humanity, and its triumph over nature, such as the automobile, aeroplane and industrial urban city. The Futurists struggled to represent the 'modern experience', and not only through to the visual medium. At their best, Futurist paintings and other artwork evoke the sensations of a metropolis' noise and heat. They were also passionate nationalists. Publishing manifestos such as the one orginally published by Marinetti became a feature of the movement, and under his guidance they wrote on varied subjects, from cooking to religion. Unlike many other modern art movements, a distinct Futurist artistic style was not developed until 1911, at Cubist influence.
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Many Italian Futurists supported Fascism in an attempt to support the modernisation of Italy, which was divided into the industrial North and rural South. After Fascism's triumph in Italy in 1922, the Futurists gained official acceptance in Italy, and the opportunity to carry out important works, especially in architecture. However, this meant that after Fascism's fall in the Second World War, many Futurists had career difficulties due to this association with a defeated regime.
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Futurism's leaves a legacy of its influence on other movemements. Futurism affected the development of many other 20th century movements, such as Dadaism and Surrealism. It additionally influenced the modern form of Science Fiction, Cyberpunk. A revival of sorts of the Futurist movement began in 1988 with the creation of the Neo-Futurist style of theatre in Chicago. Small neo-futurist movements are still active in New York, Montreal and Chicago.
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This direction of research was additionally inspired by the direct link between the love of the Futurists for technology, and mechanisms, and the mechanical theme of my project.
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- Ballet Mécanique (1923–24) is a short art film created by French artist Fernand Léger working with Dudley Murphy, an American film director. Many consider it to be a masterpiece of experimental filmmaking. The film is in a post-Cubist style, and is part of the Dadist avant-garde art movement. The film was created during what has been dubbed Léger's 'mechanical period', where he combined abstract Constructivism with the surreal qualities of Dadism.
-The film was summarised by a viewer as "a world in motion, dominated by mechanical and repetitive images, with a few moments of solitude in a garden.". It alternates between images of humans, and images of machines and mechanisms. In some scenes, such as a scene where a woman repeatedly climbs stairs, humans appear to move much more mechanically, which makes it seem as if they are becoming machines. In contrast, in other sequences machines appear much more fluid than humans, humanising the machines. This alternation between human and machine, and the film showing each taking on characteristics of the other, allows the film to suggest the mechanisation of humanity, and the humanisation of machines. -
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- - The American Composer George Antheil also wrote a score for the film, but it was orginally released seperate from the film, due to the piece being almost twice as long as the film, and at the time film soundtracks were played back from a roll of tape, in a 'player piano', and there was no way to synchronise the soundtrack and film. A version of the film with the addition of the soundtrack was not released until 2000. The soundtrack fits perfectly with the scenes in the film, heavy, mechanical and seemingly chaotic sounds perfectly accentuating the robotics and mechanisms shown to the viewer. The piece uses very unusal instruments to create some of the sounds, such as seven or so electric bells, a siren and even three airplane propellors, into the blades of which sticks were inserted. -
-This link to Ballet Mechanique was additionally inspired by the direct link between the representation of mechanisms in the film, and the mechanical basis of my project.
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- This piece is a composition of all the work done leading up to this point, involving both photography and digital drawing work that I then animated.
-The BrassGoggledCoders are an internation team of hobbyist coders working to create steampunk themed mods for Minecraft.
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+Self-styled Eccentric Gentleman. I'm passionate about science and writing, especially writing about science.
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