Brief:    “Time Machine” experiment that is corrupted by a youth smuggling a Sunkist Orange Soda into the future, whereby he becomes the President of The United States (not such a far fetched notion these days...), and when presented with his “cabinet”, it is revealed that his “cabinet” is an armoire filled with Sunkist. Ironic.  

(1)  This actually involved designing a time machine principle for the apperatus...  The subject would stand in the glass cylinder while the operator would turn on the cyclonic generator (inner set of electron extractor rings), which would then begin dismantling the molecular structure of the subject lifeform into neutrons, protons and electrons, the particles that make up every atom in the universe. The inner extractor rings would then propel the subject’s atomic particles  - the positive and negative charged electrons specifically - into the outer receptacle rings. These rings were engineered and assembled in such an integral way with the surrounding highly magnetic iron ore underground location - a top secret, very deep vein of super ionically charged magnetic ferrite ore - that the subject would be able to cogniscently perceive any moment in time, without interaction - the physics relied upon chaos, not control - past or future, and store the memory in much the same manner which memories are stored in our electromagnetic nervous system as we know it. Then, with a simple twist of the switch, back at control, the sub-atomic particles that once made up our subject, are reassembled as if nothing happened, except, the memory of the journey would remain.  Fancy.  The structure was CAD engineered and rested (spun) on a 50,000 pound swage bearing with electrical commutators to allow the kino flows to have constant power.

(2)  The control room that looked down upon the subject and apparatus.  Due to a ridiculously low budget, I elected to go with a Japanese Anime look for the instrumentation - and the set in general.

(3,4)  Very early concept sketches for the time 
machine.  The organic forms proved to be too costly to produce, yet inspired the “physics” of the final set.  My approach was to treat the lab like it was a ship.

(5,6) The set needed to be designed and engineered on a CAD system (6) to ensure safe tolerances, so in the process we created a small movie of the set working, plus a variety of camera angles to help in production planning.  This image (5) is a simple frame “grab” from the MPEG.

(7) The tunnel which lead from the control room entrance to the apperatus.  VERY CHEAP 1/4” MDF and fibreglass sheet, backlit by Matty Labatique to become something very special.

 (8-10)  Different views of the control room and 
the apparatus - from within the cave - which we 
constructed out of wood, wire and concrete.

(11,12)  The oval office set, where our hapless hero ends up, and the reference for the ACTUAL Oval Office.