{"id":905,"date":"2010-07-05T18:39:25","date_gmt":"2010-07-05T19:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trickartt.com\/notes\/?p=905"},"modified":"2015-02-08T16:25:58","modified_gmt":"2015-02-08T16:25:58","slug":"i-like-a-good-washing-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/2010\/07\/i-like-a-good-washing-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"I like a good Washing Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I should probably write about the things that influence me more often. A couple of weeks ago, I rediscovered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.secretlifeofmachines.com\/\">The Secret Life of Machines<\/a>, a Channel 4 TV series from the late eighties \/ early ninties. I used to watch this with my Dad when I was really small- it was on TV when I was between the ages of 2-7 apparently (!) &#8211; and despite being so young, it clearly made an impression on my tiny mind!<\/p>\n<p>Here is a clip from the show, where Tim Hunkin describes what the concrete ballast in a washing machine is for, with the assistance of Rex Garrod:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/11771575?color=a100ff\" width=\"570\" height=\"428\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Genius. They picked such an expressive washing machine for the demonstration too! It&#8217;s great watching this stuff again as the longstanding lines of influence are pretty apparent. For example, here&#8217;s a series of post-it notes from 2007 that bear a subtle resemblance to the above clip:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/RoTM1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/RoTM1-570x385.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Rise of the (Washing) Machines\" width=\"570\" height=\"385\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/RoTM1-570x385.jpg 570w, https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/RoTM1-250x168.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/RoTM1.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Which is a concept I revisited last week:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"570\" height=\"321\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/wCbfowPsA4E?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Now there&#8217;s an idea that is going somewhere!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway! If you like washing machines, you can see more of my washing-machine-related daily artwork <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/trickartt\/tags\/washingmachine\/\">by clicking here<\/a>, or if you just like machines in general, you can find links to watch more of the secret life of machines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timhunkin.com\/\">on Tim Hunkin&#8217;s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I should probably write about the things that influence me more often. A couple of weeks ago, I rediscovered The Secret Life of Machines, a Channel 4 TV series from the late eighties \/ early ninties. I used to watch this with my Dad when I was really small- it was on TV when I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,101,5],"tags":[102],"class_list":["post-905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation","category-inspiration","category-rubbish","tag-washing-machine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pC5Eo-eB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=905"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2616,"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions\/2616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}