Others have remarked about the serene beauty of a complex mechanism precisely engineered to perform a single task, that would be simple for a person, just for the purpose of delighting its operator and/or audience. Witness Air Sculpture, by Japanese automatist Kazu Harada, case in point. [via The Automata / Automaton Blog]
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I love this sort of stuff. Good find, Sean!
Anyone that can read japanese that can give us some more info on this device? I like the idea of the small bellows. Is it paper or is it vellum?
seems liek a lotta troubel for a buble