timhunkin/launchpad timer

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tim .

. hunkin

cartoonist

LAUNCHPAD TIMER
(in collaboration with Will Jackson, 1996)
This was made for the Science Museum's Launchpad gallery to herald their regular science shows. It obviously worked as a way to get the audience settled down, because whenever we went to mend it the explainers told us they hated starting shows without it.
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The timer in-situ, above the science show stage		The clock hand starts rotating very slowly and the explainers move their heads, keeping track of the time. Every time it completes a revolution the digital time on the left counts down one and the gong on the right chimes. The clock hand (and explainers heads) rotate faster and faster.
		Finally, the clock hand springs out and the numbers fall off the dial.

Lalitha, and my model of her, with copper wire hair and 10mm nuts for eyes.
explainer.jpg (8159 bytes)