Off topic, but interesting – A short demo video on the Nam June Paik’s Wobbulator.
via blair neal
t was originally made in the 1970’s by Nam June Paik and video engineer Shuya Abe. I was curious why there wasn’t a lot of information out there concerning it since it’s such a great piece of equipment. Most of the Wobbulator’s source images in this video were either from a camera pointed out a window, or just from straight video feedback.
There is a great detailed writeup with wiring diagrams on the Experimental Television Center’s website: experimentaltvcenter.org/?history/?tools/?ttool.php3?id=28&page=1
Fantastic!
very cool
This is really cool. I've sen others do some neat things with oscilloscopes but this looks more organic.
Cool, but not a wobbulator! A wobbulator is a frequency-modulated signal generator, whereas this is a wobbly-picture-TV-thing.
This semantic mischief is as bad as calling a 555 oscillator a 'synthesizer', or a LDR-based oscillator a 'theremin', or The Apprentice 'entertainment'.
This is why I don't watch TV anymore.