{"id":7567,"date":"2011-08-21T19:30:28","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T03:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/?p=7567"},"modified":"2011-09-12T15:27:58","modified_gmt":"2011-09-12T23:27:58","slug":"7567","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/?p=7567","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love this story, from<strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coolhunting.com\/design\/lou-nasti-mechanical-displays.php\"> Cool Hunting<\/a> , <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">about a real life Geppetto \u00a0&#8211; in countenance and craft &#8211; named Lou Nasti, a Brooklyn animatronic engineer and fantastic Christmas Coot who designed and built displays for everyone, including Coney Island&#8217;s Astroland, B. Altman&#8217;s to FAO Schwarz.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">Behind-the-scenes video of Brooklyn&#8217;s animatronic master, Lou Nasti<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cool Hunting Video: Lou Nasti\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/27906875?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For our latest video we trucked deep into Brooklyn, NY to explore\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mechanicaldisplays.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mechanical Displays<\/a>, Lou Nasti&#8217;s fantastic studio. Nasti is the animatronic mastermind responsible for installations around the globe, most notably some of the most iconic Christmas displays on 5th Avenue in Manhattan. Obsessed with robotics since childhood, he&#8217;s been doing it professionally for over 30 years, applying an uncanny mechanical skill reflected in his &#8220;can do&#8221; approach to modern technology. We were lucky enough to spend the day in Nasti&#8217;s studio learning some of his tricks and getting a sneak peek at some upcoming projects.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love this story, from Cool Hunting , about a real life Geppetto \u00a0&#8211; in countenance and craft &#8211; named Lou Nasti, a Brooklyn animatronic engineer and fantastic Christmas Coot who designed and built displays for everyone, including Coney Island&#8217;s Astroland, B. Altman&#8217;s to FAO Schwarz. Behind-the-scenes video of Brooklyn&#8217;s animatronic master, Lou Nasti For [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[787,788,786],"class_list":["post-7567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-lou-nasti-animatronic","tag-lou-nasti-coney-island","tag-lous-nasti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7567"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7577,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7567\/revisions\/7577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}