Down Under

An assemblage of revolution and recursion, inspired by Angelo Tornaghi's wonderful clockwork telescope drives at the Sydney Observatory.   Tornaghi was a Victorian instrument maker from Milan, Italy.  He immigrated to Australia in 1831 and quickly got to work on real-life steam punk technology.  Tornaghi was a bit of an unsung genius.  He designed some of the most precise telescope clockwork drive mechanisms of the time.  He used instruments of his own design to photograph the 1874 Transit of Venus from Goulburn, NSW Australia.
 

Notice the servo cable and Australian power adaptor.

Mr. Babbage posing before the astronomy gadget.

The Opera House in fractal reflection.

The Opera House from the bay.

The Queen Victoria Building in Sydney, Australia. What to say, it's amazing.  It's like an Escher drawing brought to life. 

Stained glass.

However I only have pictures of the stained glass in the stairwell.

Stairwell at the QVB.

The stairway kept looping back on itself.

Appologises from the council.

A strange bird indeed...