Ninja April 21st, 2009
French performance art group, La Machine, built a pair of steampunk, robotic spiders for the upcoming Expo Y150. They stand at an impressive 40 feet tall and weigh 37 tons. The mechanical spiders will be on display at Expo Y150 from April 28 to September 27.
Via Pink Tentacle
Related postsNinja April 15th, 2009
Tweenbots is social experiment designed by Kacie Kinzer from the Tisch School of the Arts in New York. This little, cardboard robot travels at a constant speed in a straight line and his goal is get from the North-east of Washington Square Park to the South-west corner. He can only reach his destination with the kindness and aid of New York pedestrians.
The journey the Tweenbots take each time they are released in the city becomes a story of people’s willingness to engage with a creature that mirrors human characteristics of vulnerability, of being lost, and of having intention without the means of achieving its goal alone. As each encounter with a helpful pedestrian takes the robot one step closer to attaining it’s destination, the significance of our random discoveries and individual actions accumulates into a story about a vast space made small by an even smaller robot.
Mission 1: Get from the Northeast to the Southwest Corner of Washington Square Park / time: 42 minutes / number of people who intervened: 29
Penguin September 2nd, 2008
It takes roughly 40 typewriters and 1,000 hours for Mayer to assemble a full-scale figurine like this reclining female form.
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Mayer, who describes his work as a cross between Leonardo da Vinci’s mechanical drawings and the gritty futures imagined by sci-fi maestros William Gibson and Philip K. Dick, assembles his artwork without welding, soldering or gluing.- Wired
Over the weekend, Ninja mentioned she had a penchant for old school typewriters. I’ve used typewriters, and I’ll take a pc any day. But there is something kind of really awesome about refashioning these old relics and making something fantastic with them.
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Ninja June 30th, 2008
This viddy is about a year old, but it brings a smile to my face. An eccentric, Chinese farmer with no formal robotic education, Mr. Woo, creates robots from other people’s discarded parts.
Related postsPenguin April 28th, 2008
Cupid’s Chokehold [Music Video] from NinjaVsPenguin on Vimeo.
Cupid’s Chokehold [Music Video] from NinjaVsPenguin.Sometimes we think we’ve found the one, but it doesn’t end up that way. Then we try to build love for ourselves, and it breaks.Original Music: “Cupid’s Chokehold” by Gym Class Heroes
Credits
Written and Directed by Wey Wang
Awesomette: Sean Pham
Girl: Betsy Chao
Bandmate: Bo Wang
Cinematography: Nancy Chan
Additional Camera: Wey Wang
Edited by: Jimmy Lu & Wey Wang
Storyboards by: Stephanie Jou & Wey Wang
Props by: Bo Wang, Abel Zhu, & Emily Wong
Production Assistants: Jesse Zhu, Joanne Horng, Stephen Ding, and Sean Pham
Thanks to: Gene & Rosita Hsu and Nancy Chiang
Very Special Thanks to: God
Shot with Canon HV20
Edited on Premiere Pro CS3 (PC)
Encoded with H.264
Premiered at Boba Nite.
-Penguin
Related postsNinja January 10th, 2008
Created by robotic researcher Sylvain Calinon, the robot recognizes when there’s a face in its field of view, then snaps a digital photo and extracts the major characteristics of their visage. Once that’s done, the robot turns itself into an X/Y plotter, picking up an old-fashioned quill pen and gradually filling in the details of a portrait.
via technabob
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