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James G Watt is an artist, kinetic sculptor & robot builder. Creating whimsical art, quirky machines, and the occasional film prop. There's the odd retro computer game too.
More "Electric Rocket Adventure" The first of 10 asteroid belts now works. Tamporary Kurt Vonnegut flying saucer obstacle. there could be up to 80 of these when it's done.
Some more progress on my electromechanical-ish Arcade Art Game "Electric Rocket Adventure" in which you must guide Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos safely to Mars. See the rocket spin helplessly out of control.
Play Expo Glasgow, this weekend. Chris Binarystar, Laurence Bennion and myself will be presenting an extensive Vectrex exhibit. Come and say Hi if you can.
We are also dropped a global tour. Here’s the dates and venues, some European dates are near sold out, so go go go grab tickets. These shows are going to be incredible; special guests yet to be announced. 🎉🎹🍷 All the info is at dresdendolls.com
Exactly. 20. Years. Later. Yes, Virginia…The Dresden Dolls just got our first record certified PLATINUM by the RIAA. 🤯 Who would have thought? There are no words. But that’s why…we have music? To everyone who helped: thank you. We got here together. Long Live the Punk Cabaret. ♥️🎹🥁🔥
Oh hello, we just launched a Kickstarter for a comic book adaptation of one of our songs, BEHOLD: charmingdisaster.com/kickstarter
Charming Disaster: Belladonna Melodrama, the Graphic Novella
A 24-page adaptation of Charming Disaster's song "Belladonna Melodrama," illustrated by comics artist Joe Haines
charmingdisaster.com
Congratulations Tom Servo for winning the Beijing half marathon.
Lander69. A Lunar Lander game based on 1960s code running on a tiny 4k microcontroller, retro-led display pin badge.
"A whole civilization will die tonight". Does that sound like a threat to commit genocide? chatgpt: Yes Who do you think said it? That line is most famously associated with Davros from Doctor Who. He’s a villain known for extreme, genocidal thinking, so the quote fits his character very closely.
1960s We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things not because they are easy, but because they are hard. Because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills... 2020s “Is Bruce Springsteen going to sue his plastic surgeon?”
Save Trongate 103 demo. (Trongate 103, of you're not familliar is the heart of the arts community in Glasgow's Trongate. The council has just hit them with a massive rent hike that will effectively empty the building and destroy that heart).
My LED badge again but this time with an 8 letter display instead of 4. Extendable to 28 letters and beyond.
A paper sketch for a Man Ray-esque automaton. It got me thinking about all seeing eyes and surveillance. I wonder if I should do a little tree of animated security cameras?
Bit of a Man Ray thing going on here. Another super quick built automaton.
some pics of the pin. See my previous post for video:
