This has been making the blog rounds, but I still want to call attention to John Nolan’s awesome animatronic creations. The combination of robotics and “organic” looking materials (like this fine fellow’s gums) is creepy genius.
See the rest here.
Category: robots
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I wanted to post about John Purlia a while back, but I wasn’t able to save images from the website (appropriately titled Wind Up Dreams and Vinyl Nightmares).
These photo collages of vintage toys, kitsch and ephemera are rather close to my heart because Mr. Purlia and I have a surprising amount of artifacts and images in common (particularly the Kewpie dolls and robots).
I’ve been wanting to get my hands on one of those devils!
I’m not going to spoil it by typing them out here, but all of these little vignettes have titles that further add to to narrative. They are really fun to look at.
See more in the galleries.
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Golden Age Comic Book Stories has an awesome collection of sci-fi Christmas illustrated covers by Ed Emshwiller.
Space helmets on reindeer!
I love this series so much. See the rest here.
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Just a few snapshots of odds and ends…
I dug out the holiday lollipops Louisa gave me last year, to find that they had been exposed to too much heat and had melted slightly. This only adds to their greatness.
Santa candle got it too (check out that leg)…
If you’re curious about how Hubert Cumberdale is doing (which you probably are not), he’s enjoying the festivities in his new residence:
And last but not least, we have our nativity scene, SheWalksSoftly style:
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Welcome to the uncanny valley. These singing robot heads (in an installation by Nathaniel Mellor) remind me of a horrific setup in a serial killer’s basement.
Don’t they look like the final scene in a Tales From the Crypt episode?
Here, let the Haunted Mansion singing busts show everyone how it’s done (a cappella):
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I love Ryan Abegglen’s mechanical beasts. The component parts in the diagrams are genius. Who knew these benign creatures could be mechanized murder beneath the surface?
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I love hard copy books, so I will not be undertaking this project. But I have to share since it’s rather amazing.
Bioephemera drew my attention to this tutorial on how to make your own book scanner.
Look at this thing! It’s like a robot overlord! Do you dare create one?
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This is a fantastic stop-motion short film about a robot who falls in love with an electric kettle. There’s been much “humanization” of robots in the media lately, and I have to admit I find it rather moving.
Warning: not all love stories end happily.
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You all know I love robots. But this bridal droid unnerves me.
It’s easy to create a 2-D fantasy nowadays, even edit film or produce 3-D moving images of perfection. But when we get our hands on tactile materials and attempt to construct an interactive fantasy…something goes terribly wrong.
I’m disturbed by the look on this robot bride’s face. If anything could prove that robot sentience exists, it’s THIS expression (which I interpret as “assaulted”). I dare say it’s a grim foreshadowing for this poor bot, if she ends up in the hands of a feisty fetishist.
Solidifying the creepiness is this runway clip, complete with Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean” (hardly a traditional selection for either fashion OR matrimony).
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Well, there’s a title that may disappoint some eager google searchers. It refers to these hand warmers:
My hands are perpetually ice cold, and although this is not the most practical design in terms of shape, I think they’re pretty cute.
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