Affordable Robot Art Alert - Kleiner Roboter - Gelb Edition

The Kleiner Roboter - Gelb Edition (gelb means yellow in German) is a small run of 4" Slobot sculptures.  This series is limited to 5 in this color way.  Each has a shiny yellow head, silver glitter body, and a bright green glow in the dark eye and chest plate.  The eye and chest plate glow for approximately 1 hour.  Available for $35 each from the Slobot Etsy shop

Mike Slobot presents Transporter-2

This is a new Slobot commission created by Mike Slobot.  Transporter-2 is approximately 15" tall, includes many glow in the dark parts, as well as a removable figure.  This commission was created for a client who is a wheel chair user.  He is interested in human-robot interaction and how robots might be a valuable, meaningful part of our lives in the future - a vision after Mike's own heart.

Mike Slobot’s Robot Art - The Mechanobot Project

Back once again – its Mike Slobot with the Mechanobot, and new, one of a kind slobot sculpture.  This commission was created to accompany a found object motorcycle sculpture.

His story:

“The Mechanobot is a brass tacks, no-nonsense slobot that loves nothing more than working on a motorcycle. Long hours holding a wrench bring him pure delight, and he specializes in detailed reconstruction work. Mechanobot carries around his own supply of grease, oil, and gas on his back, with his trusty ‘combo grease gun’ at his side.” 

Stands about 14” tall, found objects, old and new toys, rubber, glass, paint, etc.  Eye, wires, and hand lights glow in the dark.

Why, yes, he does have his very own skull tattoo reminding him of the horrors of war…

In this picture, The Berlin Painter by Church applies Mechanobot’s tattoo.
More on Church:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/confusedcreator/

mike slobot makes custom kidrobot munnys

i've done quite few of these Kidrobot Munny's for people and thought, i have never posted all of them together before... hmm, time to remedy that situation. scroll to the bottom to see the first one i did :) All these custom munnys have been sold, but you commission your own custom munny from me in my etsy shop.

er, hey, that's not a munny - but it is an 8" Kidrobot Dunny...

The first slomunny that i created - it won first place at the first Uberbot Munny Show.

Remember, you can get your own one-of-a-kind slobot munny in my etsy shop.

modern sculpture - defined by auguste rodin!

so, i went to a library sale last month, and i am still digging through the pile of cool art, architecture and scifi books i picked up. i blogged earlier about some of the architecture, and now i am reading though book "Modern Sculpture" by Jean Selz, published in 1963 by George Braziller. i am motivated most recently toward sculptures with my slobots, and i am thoroughly inspired by the idea of abstract and modern scuplture. so, far this is a really engaging book tracing the movement into modern sculpture. i just read a chapter about the changes that Rodin brought into the art world. he was accused by some critics of his time of not being able to "finish a sculpture". in response, Rodin wrote these words: "I am reproached for not finishing my sculptures and for presenting the public with sketches. The essential modeling is done, I consider it unnecessary to linger over the polishing of toes and curls; those details do not interest me." i am fascinated by this quote. While he was clearly capable of making the most realistic of sculptures, Rodin was one of the first sculptors to move past the idea of realism as the only acceptable means of producing art, and reached into the notion that art can be based on feeling and movement alone. Just think, without Rodin, there would be no "thinker" (pun intended), but also he is a bridge into modern sculpture, including my ability to sculpt slobots... this book is a great read, and here's some more Rodin imagery, including "the Thinker"...