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The Automaton Harpist

Posted by frankie23

Beuatiful. Haunting. Creepy as fuck. All these terms can be used to describe this nightmarish little bit of clockwork. Her vacant, yet active, dollface looks around the room as she plucks away at her invisible harp. Her bady is old, broken; the holes are visible, and one wonders how this marvel has stayed intact for so long. How old is she? Where did she come from? Her enigmatic, slack-jawed stare provides no answers. Luckily, YouTube does. Made by Gustave Vichy, she was born in Paris in 1880. Truly haunting, truly wonderous.

Automaton Harpist by Vichy [Bruce Sterling, via Ectoplasmosis]

This entry was posted on Wednesday, October 10th, 2007 at 22:17 +0000 and is filed under art, artificial life, robots, victorian. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “The Automaton Harpist”

  1. silvi Says:
    October 10th, 2007 at 22:45 +0000

    <p>my friend brian selznick just published a very illustrated children’s book called the Invention of Hugo Cabret: http://www.amazon.ca/Invention-Hugo-Cabret-Brian-Selznick/dp/0439813786/

    <p>which is about an automaton, somewhat… and i never knew these things existed until i read his book!</p>

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