Cris Rose – Typus Oris Terrarum for Metallic Machinations (12.11)

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With his Typus Oris Terrarum Mega Munny, Cris Rose has delivered a piece which stands as a highlight of both his evolving aesthetic and skills as a customizer. The eyes are immediately drawn to the clear acrylic dome which houses a functioning, motorized four planet orrey built from scratch.  Check out the video below to see the orrey in action.  Also hit the jump for more shots of this spacey piece and its complete backstory.

This piece as well as several of his Sprogs and additional cool customs will be featured in Toy Art Gallery’s 5-man Metallic Machinations exhibition which opens on Saturday, December 11th 2010 from 7 to 11 PM.   For a look at all of Cris’s pieces as well as the rest of the show, check out the official show preview.

Metallic Machinations
Opening:  Saturday, December 11th 2010 (7-11 PM)

Toy Art Gallery
737 Seward St. #1
Los Angeles, CA 90038
877.910.toys (8697)

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Typus Oris Terrarum by Cris Rose

“Mars was chosen as the first body in the solar system where Terraform would be attempted. Smaller than earth and venus, but larger than mercury and closer than the moons of Jupiter. Mars was believed to have possessed an atmosphere in the resent past, so it was felt to be more of a restoration of the the planet, than an unnatural re-purposing. The project would take over a century, even at best estimates, but with the existing robotic infrastructure offered by the dozens of already established mars bases, construction of the atmospheric generators could be achieved on the planet itself using it’s existing resources.

A prototype was developed and constructed on Earth, then tested extensively in vast sealed structures. Once perfected, the plans for the machines and those of the robots that would construct and maintain them, were sent to the red planet, along with a crew of human observers.

Typus Orbis Terrarum was made from the final generator prototype. At 250ft tall and weighing 10,000 tonnes, it stood almost as tall as Big Ben yet was 3 times as wide. Placed in London on the south bank of the Thames, it’s internal workings were altered to take in vast volumes of the city air and purify it continuously. The recovered space within allowed for a glass-domed observation platform to be installed with a monument to robotic space exploration at it’s centre. Symbolizing all the planets currently hosting a permanent robotic presence, the monument to science and engineering was also dedicated as a memorial to all the robots built for, and lost during, the missions that made these accomplishments possible.

Quid ei potest videri magna in rebus cui alter nitas omnis, totiusque mundi nota sit mangitudo? – Marcus Tullius Cicero
What in human achievement can seem vast to the one who understands eternity and the expanse of the universe?”