Saturday 25 January 2014

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci and the Albatross drawing

A long long time ago there was a rather clever chap called Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, and when I say clever he was seriously clever with the added bonus of various other skills too; who drew a helicopter. Now when I say a helicopter it was quite frankly a rubbish helicopter but the fact was he sort of knew that somehow and someday folk would finally crack the idea of flight and be able to make a machine that actually achieved what he had in his mind. At the time folk just nodded and smiled and agreed, but thought the idea was crackpot, but he had friends in high places and did some great drawing and painting so no one said it was a mad idea. Anyway besides all this he was a bit of a one for undoing bodies on the quiet, and no one is going to argue with someone who dismantles the bodies of ordinary folk going about their daily business.

 

Anyway I thought if I was to draw a flying machine in the style of Mr Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci then maybe in about five hundred years time folk will say, that Rob Z Tobor was not as mad as everyone thought he was (although he was rubbish at typing and spelling). OK I know what you are thinking . . . . . Yes the flying machine has sort of been invented and well and truly used for all sorts of stuff, very true but no one has made a mechanical flying Albatross yet that can circumnavigate the world and arrive back home as fresh as a daisy (to use yet another silly saying). OK Yes I can now hear you asking why, well for one thing it is the ultimate spy machine, who would suspect an Albatross sat on the window sill of a high powered meeting, sort of listening and recording everything while it nibbles a bit of fish. And like the laser which when invented had no practical use but has thousands now, the manmade Albatross will become as common a sight in the homes of the masses as the real Albatross is today . . . . . . . . . . AH DAMN.


OK so the point is I have drawn the mechanical Albatross to ensure that at some point in the future folk will look at it and say . . . . . . Well he was NOT mad. . . . .  
  
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6 comments:

  1. When we were in Houston for the holidays we went to the NASA Space Visitor Center. They had a display of several of his inventions, it was quite remarkable. I looked for a website, and I found it is called Leonardo da Vinci Machines In Motion. The exhibit ran in Houston until Jan 5th and has now moved to Las Vegas NV through May 4th.

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    1. He was almost as cool as Mr Carl Sagan..... although a little more European in his views.

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  2. Hey, there's nothing wrong with being mad. It certainly makes the world more interesting :)

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  3. Don't be so cross Rob. Your albatross is lovely.

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    1. As a matter of fact, should I ever receive such a fair gift, I would tie a golden string about it and wear it as a necklace.

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    2. Hello Mr Flip . . . DAMN I'm a little late I think the Albatros sandwich I have brought you is a bit off. . .

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