Apparatus for Transtemporal Praedicto of Prodigium Futurum
Long ago, infamous inventor, Franz Andriessen worked from a laboratory/workshop in one of Graceville’s grandest old houses. Though the property has long since be demolished, his work lives on, employing seemingly impossible physics to explore the quantum fabric of time and space.
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Commissioned by Brisbane City Council in the early 20th century, Apparatus
forTranstemporal Praedicto of Prodigium Futurum [ATPPF] was created to
predict disasters. Interestingly it wasn’t fire, flood and famine the machine saw
but invasions from mars and giant radioactive monsters. Temporal snapshots
of disastrous futures were captured electro mechanically and displayed in the
viewing portals, warning of outcomes that may come to pass. People must
have taken heed of these predictions and altered their actions, as it seems that
none have come true.
The predictions, as fanciful as they were, attracted the interest of film makers
and producers and were used as the basis for movie plots. Not many people
realise that Godzilla, War of the Worlds and The Wizard of Oz were inspired by
this machine, created in Graceville.
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Russell Anderson
Artist and Fabricator
Graceville, Queensland
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Workshop
Maleny, Queensland
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