»Sustainable Cinema No. 1: The Image Mill« 
Light Box
Light Box
© Scott Hessels 2009
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Scott Hessels >
»Sustainable Cinema No. 1: The Image Mill«, 2009
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Fabrication and Additional Engineering: Joe Potgeter, Joe's BarnAdditional Mechanical Engineering: Wee Choon Kiat
http://www.scotthessels.com/#!/en_project/Sustainable-Cinema-No_-1_--The-Image-Mill
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The Image Mill is a public sculpture that uses the force and beauty of falling water as the energy to create a moving picture.
As water falls over the giant wheel, a transmission assembly causes two disks to spin in opposite directions. On the interior disk are a series of animation frames painted onto glass; on the black outside disk, rotating in the opposite direction, are cut slits. As the wheel spins, the slits act as a shutter and the animation becomes visible…a movie plays in the falling water.
Sustainable Cinema is a series of kinetic public sculptures that merge natural power sources with early optical illusions to create a moving image. Nature is the power and the director of cinematography in each of the sculptures, which are designed to start a conversation about environmentally responsible media and a search for more sustainable solutions to power our emerging technologies.
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