{"id":39696,"date":"2015-03-30T01:05:43","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T01:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/archiemcphee-these-whimsical-wooden-automata-are\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T15:17:18","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T22:17:18","slug":"archiemcphee-these-whimsical-wooden-automata-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/archiemcphee-these-whimsical-wooden-automata-are\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-39696 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/archiemcphee-these-whimsical-wooden-automata-are\/attachment\/39697\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_nlokiphykj1qzfsnio1_1280-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/archiemcphee-these-whimsical-wooden-automata-are\/attachment\/39698\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_nlokiphykj1qzfsnio2_500-100x100.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/archiemcphee-these-whimsical-wooden-automata-are\/attachment\/39699\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_nlokiphykj1qzfsnio3_r1_1280-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/archiemcphee-these-whimsical-wooden-automata-are\/attachment\/39700\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_nlokiphykj1qzfsnio4_r1_500-100x100.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/archiemcphee-these-whimsical-wooden-automata-are\/attachment\/39701\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_nlokiphykj1qzfsnio5_r1_1280-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/archiemcphee-these-whimsical-wooden-automata-are\/attachment\/39702\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_nlokiphykj1qzfsnio6_r1_500-100x100.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/geyserofawesome.com\/post\/114504126619\/these-whimsical-wooden-automata-are-the-creations\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">archiemcphee<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>These whimsical wooden <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Automaton\">automata<\/a> are the creations of contemporary Japanese woodworker <a href=\"http:\/\/nizo.jp\/\">Kazuaki Harada<\/a>. We\u2019re particularly fond of the dancing ham and veggies. After first spending a year studying under English master automata-maker <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fourteenballstoy.co.uk\/\">Matt Smith<\/a>, Harada began crafting his own automatons in 2002. His playful pieces vary in both size and complexity, but all are operated by the turning of a single handle and are created in the spirit of simply delighting people. Why else would you create an automaton wearing nothing but socks, with the ability to boil a pot of tea on his own belly?<\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/automatamaker\/videos\">Kazuaki Harada\u2019s YouTube channel<\/a> to check out many more of his marvelous wooden automatons in action. You can also follow him <a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/kazu_automata\/\">on Instagram<\/a> and check out pieces he has for sale <a href=\"http:\/\/automaton.shop-pro.jp\/\">via his online shop<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spoon-tamago.com\/2015\/02\/26\/whimsical-wooden-automata-by-kazuaki-harada\/\">Spoon &amp; Tamago<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>archiemcphee: These whimsical wooden automata are the creations of contemporary Japanese woodworker Kazuaki Harada. We\u2019re particularly fond of the dancing ham and veggies. After first spending a year studying under English master automata-maker Matt Smith, Harada began crafting his own automatons in 2002. His playful pieces vary in both size and complexity, but all are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1537],"class_list":["post-39696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","tag-critical-toys","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-akg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39703,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39696\/revisions\/39703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}