Tim Hunkin (born 1950) is an English engineer, cartoonist, writer, and artist living in Suffolk, England. He is best known for creating the Channel Four television series The Secret Life of Machines, in which he explains the workings and history of various household devices. He has also created museum exhibits for institutions across the UK, and designed numerous public engineering works, chiefly for entertainment.
He graduated in engineering from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
Hunkin's works are distinctive, often recognisable by his unique style of papier-mâché sculpture (made from unpainted newsprint), his pen and ink cartoons, and his offbeat sense of humour.
His "Under the Pier Show" at Southwold Pier, England is a penny arcade featuring a number of humorous, coin-operated machines of his creation. Attractions include the "AUTOFRISK" (a device that simulates the experience of being frisked by multiple, inflated rubber gloves); the "BATHYSCAPE" (a device that simulates a brief submarine adventure); and a somewhat rude sculptural clock.
Many of his other projects are large-scale and theatrical, including gigantic clocks of unconventional designs, bonfires and pyrotechnic displays. In 1976, he designed the flying pigs and sheep for Pink Floyd's In The Flesh tour, promoting their Animals album.
His displays are also featured in episodes of The Secret Life Of Machines and relate to the machine covered by the programmes. These included a mountain of flaming televisions; flying vacuum cleaners fitted with rocket motors; a carhenge; a ballet of self-propelled portable radios; and a bizarre "pilgrimage" of an internal combustion engine carried, shoulder high, on a bier into the centre of Carhenge. The Pink Floyd inflatable pig was also featured in the vacuum cleaner episode. Other displays featured in the series were more informative, such as a free-standing central heating system and a "human sewing machine." The programs also include his cartoons in voiced and animated form.
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He has published several books in his distinctive cartoon style. His first was a children's book, Mrs Gronkwonk and the Post Office Tower (ISBN 978-0207955006) in 1973, which he recently made available again at Lulu.com. In 1988 he published Almost Everything There Is To Know (ISBN 1-871307-43-0), a compilation of his comic strip "The Rudiments Of Wisdom," first published in The Observer. He is also the author of the book Hunkin's Experiments (ISBN 978-0954226602), which describes a variety of science-based pranks, games, and curiosities. Much of both books is freely available online.[1]
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by Assassin
Dem Nuh Know We
by: Assassin[Chorus:]
To how yuh move and how it prove yuh nuh know wi
Tink yuh slick, pure hypocrite vibes yuh show wi
Coming around pretending you're my homie
But yuh phony
Dem a devil, man a rebel like tony
So dem sidung and a watch yuh like a sony
... vega... dutty nayga waan fi si yuh lonely
Full a dutty ways
Inna dem yah last days
Fiyah blaze
Anyways
Praise di fadda only
[Verse 1:]
Dem woulda love fi separate yuh from yuh money
Wannabees, we make g's you make honey
Badmind go together like cheese and macaroni
Wid jealousy, so we have to rise di chromie
Man a godfather like don corleoni
Fool! list di order of yuh life wi a go dun it
Me and mi beretta inna holy matrimony
So before yuh tink fi mek a step, yuh betta low me
[Chorus]
[Verse 2:]
See wi sportin and floatin, and waan fi drown wi
All wi do wi circle dem anytime dem try go round wi
Shotta flex wi have yah now, so mi bredda show mi
Nah go mek nuh bwoy come cut mi up fi doctor sow mi
Dem see man a move fast and waan fi slow wi
Come wid dem bag a loose talk try fi throw wi
Off wi meditation fi laugh and clown wi
But betta yuh crown mi
Cyaan dethrone mi