Piano Player Cutout – A Peter Markey Design. This great paper cutout will make the ideal Christmas gift. It seems that everyone wants to play the piano. But playing the…
The Rudiments of Wisdom by Tim Hunkin. An A to Z of random, peculiar and fascinating facts. Re-discovered and revived in Technicolor, this new title features Tim Hunkin’s entertaining and…
Simon Tait’s Mews – No.4 It happens. Struggling artist in a strange country just about making ends meet working in a warehouse by day and painting by night pictures that…
Simon Tait’s Mews – No.1 This is the first in a series of posts from the journalist Simon Tait. He will be musing on all things mechanical once a month.…
On a visit to Southwold Pier last month with Tim Hunkin and his wife Meg (pictured) I was very privileged to pay an English Guinea (or £1.10) and get my…
Tim Hunkin’s talk ‘Popular Art’ (11th April 6pm) will be the first in a series of talks at Kinetica to coincide with the CMT retrospective and Ride of Life exhibition…
April 6th to May 5th 2007 – Kinetica, Old Spitalfields Market, London E1 6AA. This fascinating new exhibition will trace the story of Cabaret Mechanical Theatre from its birth in…
You can now order your ‘A Cabinet of Curiosities DVD’ at the online shop. They will be dispatched in early November. (Sold out!) The Cabinet of Curiosities is a virtual…
Tim Hunkin revealed the latest machine for his Under the Pier Show in Southwold, Suffolk, earlier this week. As Hunkin says, “The problem with ordinary seaside telescopes is that they…