EXPLOSIVE AUGUST!

Machine Shop has been busy getting intimate with a Grand Piano for the new Jamie Cullum video, care of Pulse Films.

The new promo features an elaborate range of effects by Machine Shop (including big explosions!) filmed at high-speed up to 1000fps, where milliseconds between effects can make a dramatic difference to the captured footage. Machine Shop was able to control the sequencing of pyrotechnic charges to the nearest millisecond with recently released firing equipment that has been developed in-house by the companies engineers. The new equipment was also used in a recent commercial for Coke and McDonalds, care of Smoke and Mirrors, where split second sequencing of  valve operating systems allowed Machine Shop's effects to be seamlessly integrated with the Cyclops Motion Control rig at rates beyond detection by the naked eye, let alone manual human coordination!
 
More recently, on August the 16th Machine Shop supplied a specially developed rig for use on Channel Five?s Gadget Show. Working with the show?s producers and presenter Jason Bradbury throughout, Machine Shop developed a portable suction cup system that can be worn by the presenter allowing him to climb up the side of Birmingham?s 79-feet-tall Fort Dunlop building in a daring stunt. The Gadget show airs on channel five every Monday at 8pm.
http://www.spaghettigazetti.com/2009/08/fives-gadget-show-presenter-to-climb.html
 
Also this in August, the Barbara Kruger Chess sets have received attention in the press. The digital interactive art works produced exclusively by Machine Shop for art company RS&A limited, were featured in photos of influential designer Marc Newson?s fashionable home, which were part of an article about the rise in profile of property in Victoria.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/buyingsellingandmoving/6029437/Cool-victoria.html"