How mesmeric is this Nixie counter? It's the three dimensionality that gets me - each vacuum tube contains 10 cathodes that make the lines of each number, so as it counts up the numbers close in and move away. Check out the way the light subtly shifts on the holding bars for each digit, just fantastic.
I've just had this 6 tube Nixie repaired after a long absence. I always used to have it running at one click a second, 24/7 in the studio, and we'd all hold up for an exciting number - a 'hey-look-at-that' for something nice like 012210, and a 'put your instruments down, we're going in' for a flip over from 099999 to 100000 or 123455 to 123456. You'd call people in from other studios for the big moments... celebrations all round, creative nodes for sure.
I wrote the music for something that never happened, so here it is instead. It's called Pulse. (I can't pretend to have thought long and hard over that title.)
I've just had this 6 tube Nixie repaired after a long absence. I always used to have it running at one click a second, 24/7 in the studio, and we'd all hold up for an exciting number - a 'hey-look-at-that' for something nice like 012210, and a 'put your instruments down, we're going in' for a flip over from 099999 to 100000 or 123455 to 123456. You'd call people in from other studios for the big moments... celebrations all round, creative nodes for sure.
I wrote the music for something that never happened, so here it is instead. It's called Pulse. (I can't pretend to have thought long and hard over that title.)