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kleinbl00  ·  1595 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski Craft Fair v0.25 - December 10, 2019 (WIP)

Oh yeah - the decent movements are absolute works of art. Thing is - how much can you really add? "Watch parts earrings" is already a category; if you type "watch parts" into Etsy's search it will give you twelve autocompletes.

Taking something that was once functional jewelry and turning it into something that is no longer functional jewelry is kind of the hallmark of shitty crafts.

kill...meee.....





user-inactivated  ·  1595 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Alright, but tell me you wouldn't be all over the mechanical dragon if it actually moved. Old school automata are one rebranding as "steampunk robotics" away from coming back.

kleinbl00  ·  1595 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Oh shit you just stepped in it

Friend of mine:

Another friend of mine:

One of my "happy place" videos, which you are now required to watch in its entirety:

It is fair to say that I have an interest in automata. It's also fair to say that I've done presentations on automata. More than that... I'm not interested in saying just yet.

user-inactivated  ·  1595 days ago  ·  link  ·  

. . . If that was a windup piece, it'd go from "weird" to "weirdly cool." I wouldn't want it, but I'd at least find it nifty.

kleinbl00  ·  1595 days ago  ·  link  ·  

One of my friends restored that for her master's thesis.

Dala  ·  1595 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Personally I would just wear it as a pendant with the back facing out, it’s perfect as it was designed. I don’t think it needs to be chopped up and made into a weird dragon.

kleinbl00  ·  1595 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Duly noted