Mar 11
Blogs dedicated to Robot Art
- Welcome to the Robot Revolution
- An Animator’s Chronicle
- Bennet RobotWorks - Amazing Robot Sculpture
- Craig Berry’s Science Fiction Art
- Low Tech Times
- Proudly Destroying All Non-Robots Since 1974
- Radrobot
- Raygun Revival - Thrilling Tales from Beyond the Ether
RRobots - R. Nick Kuszyk - Wow, great art it is very reminiscent of an R. Crumb piece - Suicide Bots Hot Bot on Bot Action
- Elfwood - The World’s Largest Site for Science Fiction & Fantasy Art
- A Builder of Real Life Robots
- Mr. Future
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Mar 11
The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick as Illustrated by R. Crumb
The good folks over at “Fans of Philip K. Dick” has provided something really special. That is a piece titled: The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick as Illustrated by R. Crumb.
What could be better than a teaming of two visionaries?
The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick
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Mar 11
Geography Students: Project Idea - What is the state of Robotics and/or Science Fiction in any of the UN’s G77 Nations
- As a former Geography professor, I still think of interesting projects to work on. I have one here that I think you could Wow a Geography professor with. That is, what is Science Fiction like in developing countries. Does it exist? And the same for Robotics. How do the following nations (the United Nation’s Group of 77 developing nation) participate in Robotics and/or science fiction. What are the economic and social factors that lead to this participation (or lack thereof). What themes emerge in their writing. If you take on this project, please send me your results. Also, please send me a note if you find any science fiction authors from these developing nations online to robotinthewoodsatgmail.com.
The list of Nation’, from Wikipedia, are below:
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Mar 10
Web Review: A History of Visual Communications
While researching possible styles for Robots, I came across a very interesting e-book titled A History of Visual Communications. I chose the modernists because I have always loved the art deco look and of course, this is the time frame when robots came to life.
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Mar 10
A Personal Statement About Robot in the Woods
In many ways, this website is neither about Robots, nor the woods. Robot in the Woods is a vehicle for developing a community of artists and promoting their work. However, robots are a bit of an obsession for me. And as Mark Cuban once said, “If you have an exit strategy, its not an obsession.” Truth be told, Robot in the Woods is my entrance into the concept-o-sphere. I want to operationalize all those techy buzzwords and apply them to the arts to grow not only my business, but yours. We’re talking trendy slogans such as web 2.0, the hive-mind, the long tail, virtual communities, intellectual property, connectivism, crowdsourcing, etc. But I am also hoping to use this as a venue to advance some of my own buzzwords: MicroGrants, MicroCommissions, open-source microfranchising and communal capitalism. Read more
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Mar 10
Flash: Old Dominion Wildlife is Reporting Possible Robot Sightings in Woods behind Virginia Home
Over at Old Dominion Wildlife, there are reports of a possible robot sighting in the woods behind a Virginia home.
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Murtha’s Clone Wars
Did anyone see in Wired about the Army’s $200 Billion Robot Army? It seems that Rep. Murtha (D-Pa) wants another $20 billion for a clone army. Well, at least that’s how I misread the title of the article. It actually said “Reboot” rather than “Robot.” I guess I got overexcited about a $200 Billion robot project. Anyway, isn’t a mistake like this how Terry Gilliam’s Brazil got started?
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Mar 10
Robot Builder Websites
Wow! What I am always amazed at is finding people like myself. Of course, I am merely an appreciator of Robot art. In my searches for Robot art, however, I came across something equally as cool: Robot Builders. Please check out some of these sites…. really amazing stuff.
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Mar 9
Components used by Robot in the Woods
Robot in the Woods uses the following web-based and open-source technologies.
- Guru (to find artists and invoicing)
- Amazon Referral Program (to set-up the bookstore)
- Google
- Documents (to write and keep track of thoughts across computers)
- Reader (to test RSS feeds, unsuccessfully so far)
- The Gimp (for image processing)
- PayPal ChipIn (to collect and keep track of commissions - $12 so far, woo-hoo)
- FileZilla (open source ftp software)
- Facebook (to create to PayPal ChipIn)
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