Welcome to my personal blog where you'll find stuff I like: music, science, atheism, politics, 8-bit art, robots, and more. I enjoy making gifs, especially Soda Stereo gifs because there aren't nearly enough of these in the world. I love The Beatles. Looooooooove them. Other bands I like tend to have members that are themselves Beatles nuts: XTC, Soda Stereo, The Police, Elvis Costello & The Attractions. You'll find some NSFW stuff on here sometimes. I'm 33. I'm Male. I'm Married. 2 kids. Barranquillero, obviamente hablo español. Manejo FYeah Soda Stereo, un blog dedicado a... Soda Stereo.
Take-G Toys by Takegi Nakagawa - Take-G toys are made using an ancient Japanese craft called Yosegi-Mokuzougam or, marquetry. Essentially the artist inlays different textured and coloured wood pieces and other natural materials to create his figures. Takegi uses the highest quality woods such as maple, walnut, cherry and white ash in order to create toys that are not only unique and beautiful, but long lasting.
The cool futuristic robots and children figures featured above are sold only at craft exhibitions, however Takegi Nakagawa also makes a great set of construction and assembly blocks available to the public.
Check out take-g.com to learn more.
Himatic the Robot Assembler by Andrea Petrachi
Andrea aka Himatic is the mad scientist behind these futurostic cyber sculptures assembled from everyday items, discarded electronics, gadgets, and toys. These look way too cool to touch, but I’m essentially a child so I’d be tossing them at each other and PEW PEWing in no time.
(photos by Giuseppe Fogarizzu)
Japan’s first robot buddy cop movie, a silent film released in 1919, was shown only once, to an assembly of wealthy land owners in Tokyo. When the film ended, the audience demand for affordable giant robots to work their fields and control the peasants was so insistent, emperor Hirohito had the only copy of the film impounded and destroyed to prevent the idea from capturing the public’s imagination.
Today, this photo is all that remains of the film’s existence. Even the title of the movie has been lost to history.
