I just read something interesting about the place with a tenuous link to myself- GEC used to have it as a halls of residence for apprentices from 1952 until 1964. When I was a GEC apprentice myself in 1976, we lived in a big old building called The Grange, which was also the GEC Golf Club. (It is now the GEC Social Club).
I took a lot of shots last week, here are a selection of the more interesting ones.
A history of the building can be found here.
My blogging has been a bit lightweight this week- I’ve had Man-Flu.
When I was in Birmingham on Saturday, I noticed something familiar & unexpected in the Central Library- a projected oil wheel effect in the lobby area for some exhibit or other (and not about 70s disco lighting effects either!)
There was a problem though- it was static and should have been slowly rotating so that the oils mixed and bubbled.
The best effect from that era was known as the Splodoscope, where a small pump blew air bubbles through the oils, causing them to gloop. (The animated .gif below gives you an idea what it was like). I did ask my hire company mate whether he had splode attachments for his big high intensity projects that I could use at my party, but he said there wasn’t much call for them these days.
An interesting Splode site is Here- (source of the .gif). They even have a quicktime movie.
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