Digital BW, The Print

Tim,

Heath Robinson was a cartoonist who drew weird and wonderful contraptions
and machines - the best parallel I can think of in film would be the 'mad
scientist father' in <ahem> Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (!!!) or I'm sure that
Laurel and Hardy or some of the old silent 'slapstick / Charlie Chaplin'
movies would have had equivalents. The kind of thing where someone or
something pedals a bike that turn a cog that drives a shaft that drives an
arm that moves a grabber that picks up an egg that drops egg down a slide
that is caught in a pan that is held by an arm... you get the pictuire I'm
sure. Another typical example would be the 'kick you out of bed in the
morning machine'! :) Hence, in the UK, 'Heath Robinson' means 'hacked
together' or perhaps 'over-engineered' or perhaps 'over-engineered, but with
backwards-technology'!

I'm still bearing your idea in mind... Nothing is quick at my end at the
moment :) I think even light is slowing down here... I can prove it! It's
getting lighter much later in the mornings than it did just two weeks ago :)

Nij

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Spragens [mailto:t.spragens@...]
Sent: 31 July 2001 19:32
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Digital BW] RE: Panarama Paper was Re: hi everyone


Doesn't seem like it would be too hard to rig, without getting too
complicated. Would depend on the space and what you can
salvage - a couple of light stands and a roller on bearings would
work, I'd think, with maybe a board or wire grid between that and
the printer to avoid bad sags. I don't know "Heath-Robinson", you
have the etymology?

Tim

> Is there an off-the-shelf product that does that? I just dread to
> think how Heath-Robinson (is this an international, or only English
> phrase for something 'hacked together' - or perhaps 'an over-worked
> solution') it would end up being - I'm thinking backdrop-roll holder.

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Tim Spragens
http://www.borderless-photos.com



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