Features Podcasts Family Video Comics Music Tech Science Books Film & TV Games ✚

Jill

Shooped (?) (but awesome) watch gizzard

Cory Doctorow at 1:32 pm Sat, Jan 19, 2013

— FEATURED —

Science

Last chance to enter the Armchair Taxonomist challenge!

Book Review

Black Code: how spies, cops and crims are making cyberspace unfit for human habitation

Book Review

We Can Fix it! - a graphic novel time travel memoir

Science

The technology that links taxonomy and Star Trek

— FOLLOW US —

Boing Boing is on Twitter and Facebook. Subscribe to our RSS feed or daily email.

 

— POLICIES —

Except where indicated, Boing Boing is licensed under a Creative Commons License permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution

 

— FONTS —

Tweet
Kindle


Unknown source, unknown provenance, and it's gotta be a shoop, but what a goddamned thing this would be, were it real.

How french watch works (Thanks, Ben!)

I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

MORE:  Gadgets • horology

More at Boing Boing

The technology that links taxonomy and Star Trek

Hackers prepare for first "national holiday" in their honor

  • copperwatt

    Strikes me as more “rendered” than “shopped”.

  • Bozobub

    Why does it have to be fake?  I’ve seen quite a few “faceless” watches like this.

  • http://www.tumbleweed.net/ tyger11

    I think I just found Waldo!

  • Chuck

    No winding required.  It’s powered by the entrapped soul of a college student who disappeared while cycling through Europe not long ago.  It happened in the woods near that creepy watch maker’s house.

  • http://www.facebook.com/matthew.urso Matthew Urso

    shooped like Salt n Peppa?

  • http://twitter.com/antnisP Antonis Pappas

    I can’t fathom why are people so many people willing to pay top dollar for a RubeGoldberg contraption, that can easily be replicated by an RC oscilator and four counters. 

    • zieroh

      Yeah, seriously. And for that matter, why would anyone pay good money for a piece of canvas smeared with pigment, when a picture from a smartphone has much more resolution, detail, and realism?

      • http://twitter.com/antnisP Antonis Pappas

        Apples and oranges. 

        • Boundegar

          Apples and apples, IMO.

  • joseph zizys

    there are at least two more of these… but I have no idea who made them, they are from as far back as 2009 tho.

  • joseph zizys

    Pretty sure they where made by a studio called Seagullsfly from Rio, so it might be by Fabiano Feijó…

  • joseph zizys

    Allright Cory, I will stop bothering you now, they are definitely by Seagulls Fly, for a 4WD magazine advert, in 2009, see http://www.touchpuppet.com/2009/07/31/seagulls-fly-creative-agency/

    So you can thank me for taking a little bit of magic out of the world in order to give credit to a now defunct creative company :)

    • Dave Horton

      Nice investigative work, zizys.

  • Sam Feinson

    Am I the only one bothered by the placement of the knives and forks?

    • http://www.facebook.com/JeffreyKarter Jeffrey Karter

       Yes, yes you are.
      :-)

    • Rich Keller

      Personally, I’m disconcerted by a lack of spoons. If I need that many knives, there had damned well better be some soup coming.

      • cellocgw

        “There is no spoon”

      • Jonathan Roberts

        Is that ironic?

        • C.J. Hayes

          Maybe.  But it’s probably nickel silver or stainless steel.

  • Bodhipaksa

    Judging by the wallpaper-sized images, it looks more like a large-scale model rather than anything watch-sized: http://www.top-walls.com/wallpapers/2012/11/Eiffel-Tower-Guitars-Stick-Figures-Watches-1800×2880.jpg

  • ukegap

    But not nearly as authentically badass as a Dudley Masonic pocket watch.  http://www.oldwatch.com/dudleyse2cu.jpg

  • vermes

    I dislike stuff like this. They could have easily consulted a watchmaker or even an watch fan to make it look like a functional watch.

  • http://artdonovan.typepad.com Art

    I agree with Copperwatt, Sam and Rich.

    Yes….too many knives, no spoons, and it’s all on the WRONG SIDE of the plate.

    My guess?  Rendered by a youngster whose culinary experience is limited to drive up window meals :)

    That aside, the image is decently rendered.

  • Robert Cruickshank

    I resolve to used the term “watch gizzard” whenever possible. 

  • gellfex

    When I was a pro modelmaker in the mid 80′s this was the kind of thing that was frequently made by hand in giant scale for advertising photography.  Rather than someone at a cheap workstation PC noodling a 3d model, picture a roomful of people cutting and sanding by hand (it was even pre-lasercutting) to make this, say 18 inches in diameter.  And folks wonder where all the jobs went…

  • beafdog

    pedantic comment to follow:

    Photoshopping is normally understood to mean digitally compositing more than one image.  This is pure digital illustration.

    PS I too like the term “watch gizzard” but the word “shooping” makes me want to spit.