"Chameleon Chronicles" Automaton Box by Thomas Kuntz
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Uploaded by haxanthrobo on Nov 29, 2008
This piece was a Commissioned automaton box for Ron Grant, author of the forthcoming beautifully illustrated childrens book "The Chameleon Chronicles".Absent from this clip are the 22 handpainted Eggs (each corresponding to a Taro card) painstakingly painted by Luba Mittelman, an excellent illuminated manuscript artist. The book itself which is still in the process of production/ binding is also missing in these clips ... in it's place for demonstrative purposes in this clip is John Dee's a "true and faithful..." The piece has 16 different functions and is completely mechanically cam and lever driven with the aid of chains pulleys and linkages,additionally (but not shown ) the dragon smokes with incense which is placed in his body through a door in the back . The piece is about three feet all with figures in roughly 1/9 scale.The footage was shot VERY quickly in less than 20 minutes before the frieght truck picked it up and took it to its owner in Texas!...Still the basic functions are shown
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Insanely cool!
kittyglitter07 1 year ago
I saw this in person today, and Ron had to play and re-play it several times for me to see as much detail as possible, and I'm sure I still missed things. So beautiful and amazing. Thank you for sharing.
seanlbsgirl 1 year ago
OH WOW
Angelmajora 2 years ago
a real genious!
tomashache 2 years ago