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Posted on 30/08/19 08:33:09 AM
Steve Caplin
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Challenge 771: Air apparent
There's a small park outside the casino in the French seaside town of Pontaillac, which has a cycle path running through it. Thoughtfully, the local authorities have provided an air pump for these two-wheeled visitors.

Sadly, the pump is broken. Can you show me how it might have been operated? Or suggest another use for this curious example of street furniture?

High res is here.



Posted on 30/08/19 09:14:25 AM
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Seems your attracting attention Steve. There's someone in the background photographing you.

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Posted on 30/08/19 09:28:11 AM
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David, that's either Steve's wife or an adoring fan photographing him photographing her.



Posted on 30/08/19 10:28:22 AM
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Mariner wrote:
David, that's either Steve's wife ........


Well, if it is, it would seem to imply things about Steve that we never knew ..............

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Posted on 30/08/19 12:07:49 PM
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Posted on 30/08/19 12:59:15 PM
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Pumping Air
..... and no Michael - I don't think this is Steve's wife either .......





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Posted on 30/08/19 1:08:35 PM
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Re: Challenge 771: Air apparent
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Nicely done Ant - I’m working along similar lines.

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Posted on 30/08/19 2:18:07 PM
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Re: Challenge 771: Air apparent
Great stuff, Ant & David...

Posted on 30/08/19 7:56:03 PM
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Ant Snell wrote:



Now that's something for the guy in the background to take a picture of!

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Posted on 31/08/19 1:47:12 PM
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Removed - back soon ........

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Posted on 31/08/19 2:29:05 PM
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Steve Caplin wrote:
Can you show me how it might have been operated?


Of course! By devilish cunning French engineering ....... the air drives the beam which drives the air pump ......




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Posted on 31/08/19 3:52:10 PM
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Re: Challenge 771: Air apparent
Excellent David... perpetual motion is always a good choice.

Posted on 31/08/19 3:57:11 PM
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Re: Challenge 771: Air apparent
My solution may be less complicated - and you do have to feed it...



Posted on 31/08/19 5:16:42 PM
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lwc wrote:
My solution may be less complicated - and you do have to feed it...




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Posted on 31/08/19 9:08:18 PM
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I was more focused on where the air was going. Don't worry Steve, there's no evidence. Cell phones weren't invented yet. Pity, otherwise there would have been more pictures of Marilyn...lol

Anyway, my ship's in...and it's not the kind that means I don't have to work. Unfortunately.



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Posted on 31/08/19 9:49:21 PM
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Very nice dwindt... MM and Tom Ewell with a bribe.

Posted on 31/08/19 11:10:19 PM
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Thanks Loyd. Always a back hand somewhere. Pity the quality is so bad. The original is quite enjoyable to study.

Lovely motion in your clip there Loyd.

Lovely construction David. Is that with sketchup? What happened to to your weight lifter....lol. Oh, okay...just have to think of the brief and what happens with to much exertion...on a bad day.

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Posted on 01/09/19 2:02:05 PM
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dwindt wrote:
Lovely construction David. Is that with sketchup? What happened to to your weight lifter....lol.


That's a lovely image of yours Dennis. I love the period vehicles in the back. The boy is perfectly posed and the idea is just great!

Yes I used Sketchup because it's so good for modelling in the context of a 2D picture by vanishing point analysis. But of course it doesn't render in photo real quality. That I have to do by hand in Photoshop. Which is why, given the time constraints, this is very basic in this particular image. There are some really good third party renderers for Sketchup but I don't do enough 3D to justify the price.

The weight lifter is just as I found her. To the best of my knowledge she is quite genuine!

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Posted on 02/09/19 10:13:49 AM
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Re: Challenge 771: Air apparent
Amended video:

http://vimeo.com/357378632





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Posted on 02/09/19 1:57:20 PM
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Re: Challenge 771: Air apparent
Long time since I heard Fifth Dimension!

When Trump came back at the end I was eagerly awaiting deflation into a soggy wrinkled mess accompanied by suitable sound effects. (guess )

But jokes and completely unreasonable animation requests aside this is beautifully done Gordon. I love the way you take him across the background behind everything. There's a lot of work hidden in there.

And I never thought of the htchip anagram.

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