Novelty Automation

this is the small hadron collider this is the latest machine here particle physics is inspired by will the phosphor explosion which I have no idea what the Higgs boson is and obviously none of the journalists today I wanted about fries for you there is your Nobel Prize my dad always used to like to entertain people he he organized the amazing parties for us when we were kids and party games and things and I think when this is a child and make things that make people laugh and stuff I found it satisfying and I guess my dad encouraged it and so really nothing's changed the only one here in London is the chiropodist originally made that for Colin garden at the time Cabaret mechanical theater had a place in the market sue Jackson the woman who owned it wanted something to stand outside I wasn't sure when I made her that whether people actually would take their shoes and their sock off and put their foot in sort of dark hole you know it's quite a big arts Craver you know if you can tempt people to part with their money they've invested i've also invested to follow the instructions and do all sorts of stupid things because of making these machines ever interested in the history of arcade machines and there's quite a history of bad taste started almost when public executions ended and they became sort of private effects that people wanted to see execution so there are all these working models of executions were made so you could put in two P and C somebody's head being chopped off so there's his history as a sort of gory and the sort of bad taste so I made a divorce machine I think some people think that's a bad taste they don't it's unfortunately so small minority had less than I was expecting welcome to money- part of the fun of having the automation here is their future your task is to pick up the cash from the gutter carry it out through the city and deposit it on the weighing scales at the top that's what tourists might like to know some of something a bit more modern about London so all this sort of stuff about the City of London it's one of success and it's sort of gang mentality and appeals to me happy Private Eye reader that's half of it but the other side is my interest in arcade machines as a whole is screw machines with cranes so and although all slept families rather cynical ones to pick up the teddy bear and drop it in earlier times they were sort of partly to show the Meccan it working parts of a Kray my money laundering machine you have to pick up the cash from the gutter and get it into the bankers wearing scales at the top but on the other side there's the error regulators who occasionally look out window and if they see you too scooping all the cash out to the top then but Betemit is a very simple game you spin the roulette wheel and with this round and the divisions are either petrol meat if you land on pet but that's like sitting on the sofa or being stroked better kit and if you know the meat of course it's upside down being carved and kids are rattling so simple nothing could go wrong I'm interested in nuclear power I know lots of engineering things but there's a sort of spooky Cold War fascination and this is a great factor I also in South phone during my Southfork I tell you when you look out the window you can actually see sites for our local nuclear reactor the domes so always knew it needs a nuclear reactor inside but with all sort of built in then I thought actually quite nice to have some sweets that were edible nuclear waste and then you could dispose well there's lots of found objects well I'm gonna take found objects I mean they're they're thumb from life mostly from eBay so I got a vague idea what any people in the past I used to get a say found objects from the local scrapyard and take it to bits machines like photo copiers in that that photo properties are useful but consumer machines today were built out of plastic aren't very useful I still get a certain amount of old medical equipment and better well-made there's some specialist car boot sales of certainly electronics and I was down for my goatee it's always satisfied actually there's some nice surface shops in Silicon Valley don't visit my main sometimes inspiration you

Channel: Sebastian Sharples

Views: 22,728

Rating: 4.9909911 out of 5

Keywords: games, automation, tim hunkin, holborn, Tourist Destination, Amusement Arcade (Type Of Fictional Setting)

Id: jYBZxozcOfM

Length: 8min 1sec (481 seconds)

Published: Sat Jul 04 2015