Request for a nixie countdown device

[Grahame Marsh]

Hi

I have been contacted via my web site for someone looking for a count down device for an art show in October this year.

This is not my interest but perhaps someone else in th UK would like the challenge?

Contact details are below.

I have no commercial or other links with this company. I have no further information on the project. I do not need to be copied any emails with the company. I'm just passing the request on...

Grahame

Shiu-Kay Kan

lighting architect and designer world wide

 

SKK LTD

39 BRECKNOCK ROAD

LONDON

N7 0BT

UK

Tel: +44 (0)207 434 4095

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[Quixotic Nixotic]

On 10 Jun 2015, at 17:07, 'Grahame Marsh' via neonixie-l wrote:

>
> Hi
>
> I have been contacted via my web site for someone looking for a count down device for an art show in October this year.
>
> This is not my interest but perhaps someone else in th UK would like the challenge?
>
> Contact details are below.
>
> I have no commercial or other links with this company. I have no further information on the project. I do not need to be copied any emails with the company. I'm just passing the request on...
>
> Grahame
>
>
> Shiu-Kay Kan
> lighting architect and designer world wide

I went to university and studied architecture with Shiu-Kay Kan in the early 1970s. As a student two years below him he once had me running about all over the place on a mad crackpot scheme of his. He made a name for himself some decades ago as a lighting designer.

I have just been contacted via Clock-It by a designer, Steven Scott, doing a doctorate at the Royal College of Art. He wants a display that shows 00:00 flickering on and off every half second, slightly out of phase with others that also say 00:00 and flicker on and off. He thought he'd like to use a large quantity of the big Burroughs B7971 jobbies which he seemed to think were readily available. I have put him square on why it is a naff idea, for all the reasons I am sure you can think of also. I said the end result would be like watching bagels go stale, but I suspect he'll pursue it anyway.

Ah sweet mystery of life…

John S