{"id":2066,"date":"2015-06-02T12:42:49","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T10:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/?p=2066"},"modified":"2015-06-02T12:42:49","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T10:42:49","slug":"micro-break-the-fast-efficient-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2015\/06\/micro-break-the-fast-efficient-holiday.html","title":{"rendered":"Micro Break: The Fast, Efficient Holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/micro-break-with-john-travolta.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2067\" src=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/micro-break-with-john-travolta.jpg\" alt=\"micro break with john travolta\" width=\"288\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a>As mini-break holidays become ever more popular, now is the perfect time to launch a new concept in today\u2019s fast moving, time strapped world, the Micro-break. Simply sit on the chair and the carpet tips and rocks as you watch a TV animation of your flight and coach transfer, ending up on a tropical beach. At this point the TV lamp swings up, shining a heat lamp in your face. After soaking in the heat, you\u2019re whisked home again, the whole experience lasting less than 3 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Microbreak was my first attempt at making a simulator ride and also my first attempt at 3D animation, so it was particularly exciting. It&#8217;s also my favourite because I really struggle with real holidays. Holidays are essential for people who have stressful jobs or hate their jobs. But I enjoy working and don&#8217;t find it stressful. I like travelling for work, to have a reason to go somewhere, but find holidays more stressful than work and often thoroughly depressing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/micro-break-detail.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2069\" src=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/micro-break-detail.jpg\" alt=\"micro break detail\" width=\"400\" height=\"356\" \/><\/a>This simulator ride is built on the chassis of a 1985 Sega Space Harrier arcade game. This provides the wonderful tipping and rocking mechanism. The animation is filmed in a model landscape made of weathered lumps of PU foam, which originally came from a float used to lay a north sea gas pipeline.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Unicode\">Written by<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timhunkin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tim Hunkin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timhunkin.com\/a100_microbreak.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Micro Break<\/a> is on display at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.novelty-automation.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Novelty Automation<\/a>, a new London arcade of Tim Hunkin&#8217;s home-made machines. All machines are introduced on the website, but if you&#8217;re in London we suggest you just head over to 1a Princeton Street (a 5 minutes walk from Holborn station) and suprise yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As mini-break holidays become ever more popular, now is the perfect time to launch a new concept in today\u2019s fast moving, time strapped world, the Micro-break. Simply sit on the chair and the carpet tips and rocks as you watch a TV animation of your flight and coach transfer, ending up on a tropical beach. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,312,46],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2066"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2091,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066\/revisions\/2091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}