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My arts and crafts, including kinetic sculptures, photos and fantasy machines.

My Kinetic Sculptures and Crafts, see below

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VW Light
Light made from Volkswagen parts

Bridge
A steel construction with flashing lights and ultra violet tube


Spider
Decca

The Spider, a light beam caused the top section to rock violently,lights to flash and a bell to ring.
Kids loved trying to get passed it without activating it.

AND

A kinetic sculpture, its design influenced by a Decca radar. Slow moving arms, flashing lights etc.



Mathew
Dinsdale
Blue Robot

A robot built round a wooden window frame.
Dinsdale, a steel robot with internal lights. She once gave a lecture for me, while I was a student at Sunderland Art College, admittedly she had to use a concealed tape recorder.

Wooden robot with lights and sounds, switches, telephone dial. Unfortunately I can not find a picture of it complete. It appeared in Practical Wood Worker Magazine


A fantasy aeroplane made mainly from birch plywood

Aeroplane

Cloggy

Rocking boat

Cloggy, one of a series of fishing boats
A rocking fishing boat, with pendulum, also appeared in Practical Wood Worker Magazine


Two 'Theme' Clocks
Both have flashing LED's


Nursery Clock
An earlier version of the Nursery clock appeared on the BBC's Pebble Mill at One and was my first contribution to Practical Wood Worker Magazine

Quartz Clock with valve
A quartz clock with valve


Mouse House

Mouse house, I have lost the bottom of it somewhere.
The house
also appeared in Practical Wood Worker Magazine.


A Kinetic Sculpture built round an old wheel chair I found
in Nottinghill Gate. It had light detectors, sounds and movement.

Boat
A large sculpture that slowly rocked it's way along the floor. Its design influenced by a fishing boat.



Lorry
Lorry with Space Craft

A fantasy lorry and flying vehicle

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