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Posted on 05/01/18 09:06:53 AM
Steve Caplin
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Challenge 687: Newtonian mechanics
I paid a rare visit to the waxwork museum Madame Tussaud's over Christmas, battling my way through the dense crowds to catch glimpses of the famous and infamous.

Isaac Newton stood in an isolated corner, bereft of the attention that surrounded The Beatles and Prince Harry.

Can you take him out of this environment and find a more suitable use for those nicely positioned hands?

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Posted on 05/01/18 2:09:43 PM
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Posted on 05/01/18 2:13:07 PM
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Posted on 05/01/18 5:02:23 PM
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While a brilliant mathematician, Newton in trying to recreate his pose in a portrait painted by a artist friend, struggles to grasp an understanding of his left from his right . . .

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Posted on 05/01/18 5:35:02 PM
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All you photographers and scientific types out there I am well aware that this is optical nonsense ......

........ I call it artistic license .......



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Posted on 06/01/18 00:35:21 AM
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Wishing everyone a great 2018



Posted on 06/01/18 12:34:16 PM
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Happy New Year everyone!



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Posted on 06/01/18 12:36:32 PM
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Can't believe that Madame Tussaud's is still going!


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Posted on 06/01/18 12:42:33 PM
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Newton's waxwork and the late Paul Eddington - separated at birth?





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Posted on 06/01/18 1:26:31 PM
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josephine harvatt wrote:
Can't believe that Madame Tussaud's is still going!


They are a mega corporation with twenty two Tussauds wax museums world wide. The Tussauds Group (which owned, among other things, Warwick Castle & Alton Towers) was sold in 2007 to Merlin for 1.7 billion dollars.

I worked with them in 1999 when I was the lighting designer for the Body Zone in the Millenium Dome. They did a couple of the other zones. In fact they tendered to the government to do the entire project but were turned down. Pity. It would have been a lot better if they had! As it was it was a horrible politically motivated and controlled project run by government appointees with, for the most part, no experience or knowledge of the exhibition or entertainment field at all. As an exhibition of British 'greatness' and hubris it has perhaps only ever been exceeded by Brexit. It was, without a shadow of doubt, the worst six months of my entire professional life. I did it as a favour to a very good friend, hoping it would be fascinating, and it wasn't ............. I hated every second of it!

As a footnote to this, I was one of the heads of department invited to be presented to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth on the opening Millenium night. I was so heartily sick of the entire hideous project by then that I stayed at home and cooked a Millenium dinner for some close friends instead. A much better way to spend a landmark evening.

H.R.H. will just have to wait for another opportunity.

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Posted on 06/01/18 3:30:02 PM
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They should have had this guy at the Dome ..........





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Posted on 06/01/18 5:51:07 PM
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Posted on 07/01/18 03:06:16 AM
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Newton sometimes liked to sneak into the kitchen and cut him some cheese.





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Posted on 07/01/18 3:22:40 PM
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DavidMac wrote:
josephine harvatt wrote:
Can't believe that Madame Tussaud's is still going!


They are a mega corporation with twenty two Tussauds wax museums world wide. The Tussauds Group (which owned, among other things, Warwick Castle & Alton Towers) was sold in 2007 to Merlin for 1.7 billion dollars.

I worked with them in 1999 when I was the lighting designer for the Body Zone in the Millenium Dome. They did a couple of the other zones. In fact they tendered to the government to do the entire project but were turned down. Pity. It would have been a lot better if they had! As it was it was a horrible politically motivated and controlled project run by government appointees with, for the most part, no experience or knowledge of the exhibition or entertainment field at all. As an exhibition of British 'greatness' and hubris it has perhaps only ever been exceeded by Brexit. It was, without a shadow of doubt, the worst six months of my entire professional life. I did it as a favour to a very good friend, hoping it would be fascinating, and it wasn't ............. I hated every second of it!

As a footnote to this, I was one of the heads of department invited to be presented to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth on the opening Millenium night. I was so heartily sick of the entire hideous project by then that I stayed at home and cooked a Millenium dinner for some close friends instead. A much better way to spend a landmark evening.

H.R.H. will just have to wait for another opportunity.


What a great story (although it sounds a dreadful experience) - we all knew the Dome would be a money wasting shambles and sadly we were right.
I am still amazed that, with all the wonders of the modern age - 3D cinema, animatronics Virtual Reality etc that people are still queueing and paying good money to see (essentially) some not very convincing wax sculptures of Slebs and historical figures



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Posted on 07/01/18 4:01:59 PM
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josephine harvatt wrote:
What a great story (although it sounds a dreadful experience) - we all knew the Dome would be a money wasting shambles and sadly we were right.


It was based on reverse accounting. Having spent far too much already, by the time it came to instilling the different exhibition zones, they were obliged to design around hypothetical visitor figures to maximise returns. Basically they added up the total estimated returns they needed to recoup their costs and converted it to visitor hours. This was then broken down by the day and used to arrive at a figure for how many visitors they would need each day and how quickly they could be 'processed' to maximise numbers.

The Body Zone (the interior of the giant sculpture for which I was doing the lighting and video) was the most popular attraction and they were anxious that it would become a bottleneck so we were required to design the interior and exhibition in such a way that it took no more than five and a half minutes for a visitor to pass though the entire thing.

Every time we came up with ideas that were genuinely involving and could get real visitor participation and involvement we were told by the senior management to scrap it on the basis that people would want to stop instead of keep moving. We were quite literally required to design non-involvement into the exhibit. An exhibition created around the principle of not wanting visitors to devote any time to really look at it .............. and they wonder why it was criticised .......

I am still amazed that, with all the wonders of the modern age - 3D cinema, animatronics Virtual Reality etc that people are still queueing and paying good money to see (essentially) some not very convincing wax sculptures of Slebs and historical figures


I was in Amsterdam a few days ago and my hotel was close by the Amsterdam Tussauds. There were queues opening to closing without cease!!

Mind you I think there's more than just waxworks in there nowadays. There are rides and other modern VR stuff as well.

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Posted on 07/01/18 6:59:24 PM
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Good evening everyone. I havenīt had the opportunity to upload anything during the last few months due to work commitments, but now I have a bit of spare time on my hands so I thought it should be put to use!

Happy new year everyone!



Posted on 07/01/18 7:48:27 PM
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Yeah, I can take him out of his environment--early twentieth century...perhaps

Our mentor might comment "isn't he a little large for the scene?" To which I answer " Newton was a giant of a man!"





Posted on 07/01/18 8:09:27 PM
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michael sinclair wrote:
Yeah, I can take him out of his environment--early twentieth century...perhaps




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Posted on 08/01/18 06:06:25 AM
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It's been such a long time, i've forgotten the pro's and con's about posting an image.......oh, it was to big!


Posted on 08/01/18 06:14:55 AM
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Pythagoras vs Newton.....Influence over Billiards cup



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