Dan has repurposed a pair of formal ladies’ gloves that were once my mothers. They have been incorporated into an automaton that he created for an upcoming show. It shows a woman applauding. It is just one of a series of these unique automatons that he made. Other creations in this suite include a disembodied playing violin and a horse’s head. He likes the work. He is very good at it and other people seem to like it too. He has just finished this job and now has two more job offers. One of these jobs calls for building devices that are computer controlled, and he plans on using a Raspberry Pi for that. I assume that the noise of the mechanism will be drowned out by the music from the show, but I hope that the metronome will still be heard. He has been making these copper filament creations since art school. I find it interesting after all of these years of working in movies and TV, he finally seems to have found some traction with live theater. Lookout Broadway, because here he comes!