{"id":5283,"date":"2021-04-24T08:57:46","date_gmt":"2021-04-24T15:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=5283"},"modified":"2025-07-03T14:24:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T21:24:19","slug":"tim-hunkins-mechanical-wonders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=5283","title":{"rendered":"Tim Hunkin&#8217;s mechanical wonders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tim Hunkin is an innovative English engineer, cartoonist, writer, and artist best known for creating the Channel Four television series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secretlifeofmachines.com\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.secretlifeofmachines.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Secret Life of Machines<\/a> in which he explains the workings and history of various household devices. He has also created museum exhibits for institutions across the UK, and designed numerous public engineering works, chiefly for entertainment. Hunkin&#8217;s works are distinctive, often recognizable by his unique style of paper-m\u00e2ch\u00e9 sculpture (made from unpainted newsprint), his pen and ink cartoons, and his offbeat sense of humor\u200b. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timhunkin.com\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.timhunkin.com\/\">His website has lots of information<\/a> about how he came up with his ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His &#8220;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.underthepier.com\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.underthepier.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Under the Pier Show<\/a>&#8221; is on Southward Pier in Suffolk, England is a true delight. I love it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nieXCqpxjC4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s a place in the US with similar cool machines at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marvin3m.com\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"http:\/\/www.marvin3m.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Marvin&#8217;s Marvelous Mechanical Museum in Michigan<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J2nuoN7ypMo?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Hunkin is an innovative English engineer, cartoonist, writer, and artist best known for creating the Channel Four television series The Secret Life of Machines in which he explains the workings and history of various household devices. He has also created museum exhibits for institutions across the UK, and designed numerous public engineering works, chiefly for entertainment. Hunkin&#8217;s works are distinctive, often recognizable by his unique style of paper-m\u00e2ch\u00e9 sculpture (made from unpainted newsprint), his pen and ink cartoons, and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=5283\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22,9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artdesign","category-cool","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-1nd","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5283"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14532,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5283\/revisions\/14532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}