This video shows the testing and editing (maybe the 2nd or 3rd edit??)of only part of the most ambitious and costly miniaturized project to date called "the Alchemyst's Clocktower. " The star (the Alchemyst) is part child's poet,Part self-pitying bore,Part Insult comic,Part absurdist, part occult Philosopher...and very protective of his tower! After several years the second tower was completed in 2008 This project was not funded by a multi-million dollar corporation or film studio .It was built by one man from scratch from an Idea that evolved over the span of nearly a decade.. that being said, Blake Bolger,Dru Smith, Tom Blue, and Richard Landon all deserve a huge special "thankyou" not only for their generous moral and technical support but also for believing in the dream .Blake made a second set of much improved hand- stitched costumes for the alchemyst.. The control cables going into the tiny little head head pass through a metal spring tube only 1/16th of an inch wide! His body components were machined by hand on a clockmakers lathe out of brass and steel. For rehearsals his grimoire is absent from his right hand...The figure is part of a 9 foot tall fully mechanical tower inspired by the astrological clock in Prague and dedicated to the alchemysts of old. It was constructed of traditional materials and the figure itself was made using century old techniques from the feet up. Below the decks however he is controlled by a complex array of theme park technology making ...
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