This chap is almost an Invisibule (except we can see his hands.)
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[Horse rider in the Wild West, has a blanket over his head]
Caption:
Early poncho prototype
Caption:
Early poncho prototype
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Inspired by my new job at Oxbotica, writing software for self-driving vehicles. I’m having a lot of fun, learning new things and building stuff. Roll on the day when only computers drive, and road rage will just be something you take a history tablet to learn about in school.
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Idyllic punting river scene. A young woman with parasol and sun-dress is waited on by a robot waiter which is also doing the punting. Ducks look on knowingly. The boat says "Oxboatica."
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Dog (or bear?) like creature with the body of a turtle.
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half a dozen dinosaur hatchlings in a rocky nest, and their mum.
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Conjoined dinosaur(s) hatching from their egg.
Gosh, it’s been a long time. I’ve forgotten how to do all these little steps, so I hope it all comes out in the end.
Google tells me that the email subscription service is (or has already?) come to an end, so if that’s the way you subscribed so far it won’t work in the future. RSS should still work, and for example I use feedly.com for reading content like that.
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1. Itchy, centre stage: "I am a master."
2. Reaches over face and pulls: "of"
3. Reveals cat face: "disguise!"
4. Reaches again and pulls.
5. Now he's an elephant-head. Quite small! Reaching over...
6. Now he's a tiny giraffe-head, reaching over...
7. Now he has a very very small head, a little animal we can't identify.
8. Reaches over and POP! the head comes off: "Oops! Too far as usual"
2. Reaches over face and pulls: "of"
3. Reveals cat face: "disguise!"
4. Reaches again and pulls.
5. Now he's an elephant-head. Quite small! Reaching over...
6. Now he's a tiny giraffe-head, reaching over...
7. Now he has a very very small head, a little animal we can't identify.
8. Reaches over and POP! the head comes off: "Oops! Too far as usual"
After meeting Hoover, the big male hippo at Whipsnade Zoo, personally last year, I decided I needed to branch out from drawing and painting hippos, and get on with making them in 3D, preferably with moving parts. The (very short) movie can be found on YouTube.
At last I’ve discovered the true purpose of Lego!
Tech note: I’m using a gazillion “dark bluish grey” bricks, and the Spots-not-on-top (SNOT! I kid you not) technique. The upper jaw is much too heavy to lift alone, so the lower jaw is weighted and acts as a counterbalance (they are operated via 2 meshed 16-tooth gears, one with a lift-arm for each jaw.) Even then, and geared down, the old 1980s Lego electric motor is having a difficult time. Note also the muck-spreader on the back!
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One hippo photographs another.
In those days there were no grass-roots movements, largely due to the lack of any grass.
This comic was inspired by an eye-opening talk at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History on “The Cambrian explosion and the origin of animals” given by Prof. Paul Smith. Even before the Cambrian started, 540 million years ago, animal body plans were evolving down in the smelly mud at the edge of the continental shelves (as I understood it.)
Pictured left-to-right: Charnia, Dickinsonia and some kind of jellyfish.
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sings: Evolution not revolution
sings: Mutate and replicate
band name: pre cambrian explosion
caption: Meanwhile, in the neo-proterozoic, change was fomenting.
sings: Mutate and replicate
band name: pre cambrian explosion
caption: Meanwhile, in the neo-proterozoic, change was fomenting.