1. Useful
adresses where you can find out more about mechanical
models:
Robert Addams in
Great Britain explains how to design automata and shows very nice examples.
Ed
Bertschy has designed a paper steam engine which can be moved by compressed
air. The download is free.
Malcolm Brook
creates mechanical poetry.
Tim Bullock is paper
engineer and you can find wonderful paper automata on his website
(www.cool4cats.biz).
Cabaret Mechanical
Theatre in London is a Museum of Automata (Mechanical Sculpture):
www.cabaret.co.uk.
Guiseppe (Pino)
Civitarese from Italy constructs mechanical paper sculptures
(www.paperpino.net).
Falk Keuten's blog "Spiel und Kunst mit Mechanik"
(game and art with mechanics) ist worth a visit (http://spielundkunstmitmecha.apps-1and1.net).
Martin Graf's edition
8x8 is a laboratory for paper automata and pop-ups: www.edition8x8.de.
Neil Hardy makes
"Fabulous Animals" out of wood, metal and other materials.
Robert Ives makes mechanical
paper models.
Kineticus is a site
for kinetic art by Bernward Frank: (www.kineticus.com).
Keith Newstead
lives in Cornwall (Great Britain) and makes mechanical sculptures
from metal, wood and paper (www.keithnewsteadautomata.com).
Dug North in the USA produces
mechanical wooden sculptures (www.dugnorth.com).
The Modern
Automata Museum in Montopoli near Rome/Italy collects 200 automata approx.,
made by artists from Japan, USA, Germany, Great Britain, France, Canada,
South America and Italy (www.modernautomatamuseum.com).
Sandrine Sheon
designs erotic paper automata (www.worldupsidedown.com).
Tinguely-Museum in
Basel/Switzerland exhibits the estate of the Swiss kinetic artist Jean
Tinguely.
Dan
Torpey in the USA constructs whimsical moving creations (automata).
Hanns-Martin Wagner
in Switzerland designs rolling ball sculptures and shows a long list of links
about themes like rolling ball sculptures, whimsical machines, mechanical
sculptures, automata and kinetic art on his homepage.
Kevin Wright's
wonderful clockwork automata.
2. Here you can order all kinds of paper cutouts:
Germany
Atelier GAG. Papiermodelle und Bastelbögen (Fritz König), Schnoor 31, D - 28203 Bremen,
Tel. 0049 - 421 - 32 74 63
www.baerenpresse.de
(Bärenpresse, Halle/Westfalen)
www.kartonmodellbau.de
(Quellshop von fentens productions und HMV-Hamburger Modellbaubogen-Verlag)
www. racepaper.de
(Volker Preikschat, Bremen, designs cars out of paper)
Great Britain
www.arcturuspublishing.com
(Arcturus-Verlag, London)
www.cabaret.co.uk
(Cabaret Mechanical Theatre, London)
www.flying-pig.co.uk
(Robert Ives)
www.heritage-models.co.uk
(Roger Pattenden designs architecture-models)
www.marcle.co.uk (Marcle
Models)
www.papershipwright.co.uk
(David Hathaway designs ships out of paper)
www.tarquinbooks.com
(Tarquin-Publications)
www.usborne.com
(Usborne-Publications)
Netherlands
www.icebergbouwplaten.nl
(Peter Visser's Iceberg Publications sales architecture- and postcard-models,
on his website you will find a lot of links)
Sweden
www.bildrum.se (Gunnar
Sillèn)
USA
www.doverpublications.com
(Dover-Publications)
www.opticaltoys.com
www.papermodels.net
(Paper Models International)
www.fiddlersgreen.net
(Chip Fyn's paper models)
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