POOPING DUCK

From a blog post HERE

Robots before "Robots"

Firstly, podcast #24 of Stuff You Missed in History Class

And secondly, the Medieval Robots Blog

The Smashing Pumpkins and Georges Méliès

For those who don't know, the Smashing Pumpkin's Tonight, Tonight video was based largely on the work of the early filmmaker Georges Méliès, after whom the ship carrying the music video's protagonists is named. Méliès' Voyage dans la Lune was the main inspiration:

La Sirène was another film that likely gave shape to the undersea scene

Méliès was made a fictional character in the recent book and movie Hugo. It also stars an automaton!

Paolo Ventura, Automaton #06, 2010

Part of a current exhibition at the Italian Academy, Columbia University

Animated Monk

From Radiolab

If you listen long enough, like a few seconds, you get to the pooping duck.

Pictures from Friends!

From the Museo Galileo courtesy of PK 

Marco d' Agrate, St. Bartholomew, c. 1562.

Duomo, Milan.

Automaton, c. 16th-17th century.

Museum of Decorative Arts, Castello Sforzesco, Milan.

Courtesy of SS