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mechanical topiaries using wire frames with movable parts | |
People seem to be fascinated with topiaries, but I have often thought it would be a lot of fun to have them moving and doing things. Imagine if that big dinosaur could move his tail around, or Mickey Mouse could wave to children.
Built into the wire forms would be movable joints at places like the
arms, legs, and neck or around the waist area. There wouldn’t be large movements that could break the plant, but subtle movements as I mentioned, like waving or nodding. These movable parts would be attached to small motors with cables. There could be several settings so it wouldn’t appear too mechanical, possibly even some voice activated ones to startle onlookers when they said something or made a noise.
(Loud burp...and W takes a bow)
I thought about making these with mechanical movements
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[xandram, Feb 24 2007]
Cinefantastique cover on King's attack topiary
http://cgi.benl.eba...87275QQcmdZViewItem
[jutta, Feb 26 2007]
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You want to make robot tree porn? And I thought you were such a nice girl... |
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A plant that scares small children! How mean. I love it. Do you hang a sign on the fence 'Beware the ficus' Hmmm |
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Genius. At last I can fire those guys I have standing around in tree costumes to scare little girls when they walk by. Thank you [xandram]. |
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<mutters to self>Damn Wizard of Oz rejects, always complaining, "It's too hot!" "I'm on fire!" "My zipper's stuck!" "I'm gonna die, oh God, I'm gonna die!" blah blah blah. Good riddance to the whole lot of 'em. <mts> |
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Good one, [xandram]. Brian Ferry has a line on one of his songs, "house and garden, topiary"...now I have a different picture of that house. |
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Real topiary is pruned shrubs. Fake is forms with vines trained onto them. The fake ones could wiggle all over, especially if the vines were not woody. This would be good. |
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This is very cool.
I'm picturing pruned gargoyles lining a driveway that seem to reach for an approaching vehicle. |
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I'm glad you guys liked this, too. I was rather shocked that at least someone hadn't tried this already.
[wagster] I still am a nice girl just a weird inventor! |
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I thought it was already done too - but
so what ? + |
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Please post a link if you can find it. Otherwise, I'm going to sell this to Disney! |
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Oh... I am a buyer of this idea for my front yard. Especially with the addition of red motion senor lights (as eyes) to [2 fries shy...]'s gargoyles. |
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I met a bush once that curled its leaves when you touched them. |
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Yes, [2 fries] idea is really cool!
(btw, I'm not selling Disney the Kama Sutra Motionary rights.) |
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Stephen King's book "The Shining" and its 1997 television miniseries remake had moving topiary attack the boy Danny. (Kubrick opted for a labyrinth instead.) I couldn't find a photo, but the topiary monsters did make the cover of Cinefantastique magazine; see link. |
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Great find, [jutta] thanks.
I noticed this got moved to the topiary category, but I really hadn't meant it for the *home*, which is why I put it in *public*. It's OK by me, though. |
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Yeah, I figured keeping the topiary ideas together would be worth the occasional private/public mismatch. I could make Culture: Art: Topiary or something, but then it would move away from the rest of gardening. *Shrub.* |
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[jutta] No need for another category, like I said. I really appreciate your input! |
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The slight difference between this and the Kind miniseries is that this wouldn't be made using pretty rubbish CGI. |
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Twas a typo. Was meant to say 'King'. |
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Check the link, [bigsleep]. |
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I could see this working well in a Candid Camera episode. |
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I could see this working well with taxidermy. |
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Wow, you have all come up with such great ideas, I'm really impressed. (and laughing,too) |
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Are these robotic topiary to be controlled remotely? If one were, say, controlled by Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld... |
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Up next: Knock'em Sock'em Shrubbery ! |
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Have you ever seen the Rose Parade in Pasadena, CA? |
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Giant parade floats, covered entirely in plants of some sort, that not only roll down the street, but also have all kinds of moving parts and gadgets and geegaws. |
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So, not exactly the same, but I bet a lot of that float technology could be used in the moving toparies. |
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I once saw the floats after the parade, so they weren't moving, but another good idea. |
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