Robot Fossils [photo intense]

ThrowingChicken said:

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That would be great, perhaps I will start contacting some galleries around the country and see if I get any bites.

If you're serious, I would also look around for an agent or manager - dealing with art galleries is an art all its own, and quite political, with favors and inside info and "who you know." A good agent can get you the right gallery in the right town (and right PART of town), geared to the right crowd, at the right time, and priced to sell out, but not sell YOU out...

Where are you located? PM me if you'd like me to hook you up with some LA art dealers - they pretty much know every gallery on both coasts and everywhere in between and outside the US. I also design & specify lighting for galleries, among other establishments, so I know a few galleries as well.

Dan

good ideas and well done

thats something very unique and pretty cool.....well done !!

Awesome.

Amazing! What a fantastic concept.

This would potentially be a very lucrative line of saleable products. Someone with deep pockets could certainly help you take this very, very far. The possibilities (e.g. display line, toys, movies, TV series) are just about limitless.

This is like Jurassic Park meets A.I. meets Transformers; only better. I love it!

Phil

What an absolutely brilliant idea! And masterfully executed.

Very cool idea. I'm with the others in hoping for more!

Great idea!!!!

I am blown away. Very slick.

So a friend of mine found me here - http://www.geekologie.com/

Never heard of them before (no offense to them, I check like the same 5 websites every day), but apparently they are a big geek blog site.

they look great! Robo-raptor next? lol

I just ran across pictures of those somewhere online and had no idea an RPF'er had made them! They are AMAZING!!! Incredible execution on an incredible concept!

These are really incredible. I'd love one for home if you do any runs after your show.

These are GENIUS!

Actually, I had been thinking about robot-dinosaurs a little bit. It might be something interesting to do if I keep the series going.

ThrowingChicken said:

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So a friend of mine found me here - http://www.geekologie.com/

Never heard of them before (no offense to them, I check like the same 5 websites every day), but apparently they are a big geek blog site.

I was just going to post that I saw these at geekology. You're famous now!

Is that how it works? lol

Your fossils got a mention at io9 http://io9.com/5555963/mechanized-fo...uture/gallery/

Fantastic work

stunning!!

Brilliant, original idea - superbly executed to perfection.

One of my favorite concepts of all time. The "future artifact". I remember seeing an 'In Search Of' or similar show where they were trying to show proof of alien life on earth in ancient times by showing a rock/geode that was split open to show some high tech looking core. I think it would be cool if there was a similar made up back story of a scientist or government agency collecting these to hide or prove the fact that we had been visited by either aliens or time travelers from our future.

If I had any criticism at all with them it is that they seem to be laid out too perfectly or intentionally. Maybe they need to look more randomly placed and perhaps just teasing and hinting at their true nature.

I would certainly proudly hang any of these in my office. Awesome work.

Andy

Awesome! I'd buy something like this.

Looks like Han took a nap in the Carbonite.

androidandy said:

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I think it would be cool if there was a similar made up back story of a scientist or government agency collecting these to hide or prove the fact that we had been visited by either aliens or time travelers from our future.

I actually just finished typing up one scenario for another member here via PM, and since you bring it up then I might as well share it and get some feedback.

During one of my earlier contacts with a fossil enthusiast, it was explained to me that a way to get close to my desired effect was to have the remains of these robots lay at the bottom of a body of water, perhaps after crash landing there in a ship that leaked enough radiation to kill off the surrounding organic life. I liked the radiation part, so I was envisioning a scenario where a burst of lethal radiation from the sun kills off most of the life on earth, and that these self-replicating robots were built by scientists as a sort of carrier for various species' DNA, and after the effects of the radiation had vanished the robots would be programed to clone the extinct species to repopulate the planet (which is perhaps over-complicated but it sounds interesting). The radiation on a world-wide scale would take care of the organisms the fossil guy mentioned above.

From this point on I am not entirely sure what direction I should take with the history. I could have the robots fail at their mission and just evolve on their own ala the movie A.I. I could have the robots abandon the mission and evolve, only to discover that a band of humans and other species survived the radiation either through proper shelter or perhaps the dose was weaker towards the poles, resulting in a human-robot war with the humans eventually being the victors. Or I could just say it all worked out, after a few decades or centuries the robots repopulate the planet with the extinct species and that the first few generations of man were somewhat of feral beasts so the robots aid in our survival was lost in history or deemed myth until the fossilized remains were discovered.

What a cool idea, I really like the look of them.

Also, I really want to slap your avatar to make it stop. Brilliant!