Public Address | Cafe | Capture: The Robots Are Here! http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2013 Public Address Public Address http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247153#post247153 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247153#post247153 Discussion from blog post.

]]> Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:00:32 +1300 Geoff Lealand http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247154#post247154 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247154#post247154 Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:00:32 +1300 Lilith __ http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247160#post247160 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247160#post247160 Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:39:26 +1300 Rebecca Leathem http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247161#post247161 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247161#post247161 Sat, 28 Jan 2012 21:20:54 +1300 Rebecca Leathem http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247162#post247162 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247162#post247162 Sat, 28 Jan 2012 21:21:31 +1300 JacksonP http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247165#post247165 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247165#post247165 Boxy Bot.
My robots are not proper robots, merely decoration robots.

Thanks Rebecca. These are great too. Have a friend who knitted a robot. Hoping it might turn up here at some stage.

]]> Sat, 28 Jan 2012 22:04:13 +1300 Sacha http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247168#post247168 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247168#post247168 Sat, 28 Jan 2012 22:17:26 +1300 Kracklite http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247174#post247174 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247174#post247174 http://www.myremoteradio.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/dalek-blue-456.jpg

Daleks however are cyborgs, not robots, so here's a real fictitious robot:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBI-29y7_oc

]]> Sat, 28 Jan 2012 22:53:54 +1300 Ian Dalziel http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247181#post247181 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247181#post247181 aaaahh R.U.R.
Secrets when dynasties collide....
the Dukes + Martin Horspool + Liesha Ward Knox

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLUyf5amypk

]]> Sun, 29 Jan 2012 08:28:47 +1300 Jackie Clark http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247182#post247182 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247182#post247182 Sun, 29 Jan 2012 08:43:17 +1300 JacksonP http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247183#post247183 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247183#post247183 Eagle Eye.
Dukes + Martin Horspool + Liesha Ward Knox

I forgot about that! Thanks. That's one of the coolest things ever, IMhO. I should really add it to the opening post.
does Emma's knitted Dalek count?

Absolutely. Been thinking of a theme to encourage people to follow, and the?

]]> Sun, 29 Jan 2012 08:56:29 +1300 Ian Dalziel http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247184#post247184 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247184#post247184 the sequincers rule?
Oh these are wonderful. My robots are not proper robots, merely decoration robots. In homage to all true robots, of course. I took the shots on holiday in Napier in January 2011.
Decoration robots rock, too!
Looks like the kind of thing you could sell at that?

]]> Sun, 29 Jan 2012 09:01:32 +1300 Geoff Lealand http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247185#post247185 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247185#post247185 Sun, 29 Jan 2012 09:29:28 +1300 Geoff Lealand http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247186#post247186 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247186#post247186 Sun, 29 Jan 2012 09:31:24 +1300 JacksonP http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247189#post247189 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247189#post247189 If you ever get to Yokohama (as I hope you all will one day), there is a fantastic robot museum up on the hill in the old European section.

Not the greatest video, but do you mean this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMHe5n9Tsfw

]]> Sun, 29 Jan 2012 10:33:26 +1300 Ian Dalziel http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247190#post247190 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247190#post247190 and let's not forget...
Eduardo Paolozzi's fine work...
including: Vulcan – it seems the UK is festooned with his mecha sculptures and there's also his collages which I first remember from '60s Brit scifi mag New Worlds

plus some historic robot stuff at Cybernetic Zoo

and to finish, what __do__?

]]> Sun, 29 Jan 2012 10:51:29 +1300 James Butler http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247195#post247195 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247195#post247195 Sun, 29 Jan 2012 12:30:32 +1300 Carol Green http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247196#post247196 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247196#post247196 Sun, 29 Jan 2012 12:35:29 +1300 JacksonP http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247200#post247200 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247200#post247200 Martin and some fruit.

Ah, right, so you are part of the drumming fraternity. Took a while to register, but your BDO story should have been a clue. Somewhere I have pictures of the Samba crew at the Grey Lynn Festival. Was that you too?

]]> Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:59:32 +1300 Julie Cross http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247202#post247202 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247202#post247202 Cause it don't matter what you're made of
Believe in yourself
And keep your head up, yeah!

great photos!

]]> Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:34:03 +1300 Carol Green http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247214#post247214 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247214#post247214 Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:13:27 +1300 Sofie Bribiesca http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247227#post247227 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247227#post247227 Or anything else that springs to mind. Springs for instance... ]]> Sun, 29 Jan 2012 20:18:49 +1300 Sofie Bribiesca http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247228#post247228 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247228#post247228 Sun, 29 Jan 2012 20:21:04 +1300 Tom Ackroyd http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247249#post247249 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247249#post247249 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:14:52 +1300 Sofie Bribiesca http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247250#post247250 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247250#post247250 Great photo.

This lil' guy isn't a robot but he moves and shakes and goes around in circles.
Hey! Jackson said anything....;)

]]> Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:39:51 +1300 JacksonP http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247251#post247251 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247251#post247251 Pedestal phone.
My Phone
That's a phone?

Hey! Jackson said anything....;)

Tin toys, definitely!

]]> Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:55:01 +1300 Sofie Bribiesca http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247254#post247254 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247254#post247254 That's a phone?

Yes, Yours is very styly :)

]]> Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:02:21 +1300 Steve Barnes http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247312#post247312 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247312#post247312 Ok then, I'll bite.
But not as hard as Roger Ramjet...

]]> Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:04:06 +1300 Geoff Lealand http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247330#post247330 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247330#post247330 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:54:36 +1300 Steve Barnes http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247344#post247344 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247344#post247344 Credit where credit is due, an all that.
Roger is actually a Lamp made by a very good mate of mine called Andrew Palace who has a business called ?Metal as Anything" in Grey Lynn behind Countdown on Williamson Ave. He has many such wonderful lamps, robots, spaceships?

]]> Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:41:59 +1300 Greg Bodnar http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247381#post247381 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247381#post247381 This calls for Dan Mangan's Robots video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRcXULN6mp4

]]> Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:08:43 +1300 JacksonP http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247385#post247385 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247385#post247385 Dive Bombers.
He has many such wonderful lamps, robots, spaceships and indescribables.

Very cool. As is your re-composition. The planes above did a few loops over the Waitemata yesterday. You could save them for future use. ;-)

]]> Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:24:24 +1300 Steve Barnes http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247388#post247388 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247388#post247388 You could save them for future use. ;-)

Yup, I needed and excuse for the fire on the Skypodermic

]]> Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:36:00 +1300 B Jones http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247391#post247391 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247391#post247391 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:28:51 +1300 Lilith __ http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247412#post247412 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247412#post247412 Holding out for a superhero?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcDN409ZBv4

]]> Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:30:07 +1300 Sofie Bribiesca http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247533#post247533 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247533#post247533 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:42:30 +1300 JacksonP http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247557#post247557 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247557#post247557 Holding out for a superhero?

That is very cool, and clever. Having just watched the official Chronicle trailer though, it seems a whole lot more sinister.

]]> Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:50:02 +1300 Lilith __ http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247560#post247560 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247560#post247560 Having just watched the official Chronicle trailer though, it seems a whole lot more sinister.

Oh. A great stunt in support of a crappy movie? :-s

]]> Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:50:35 +1300 Jos http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247699#post247699 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247699#post247699 "Have a friend who knitted a robot."

You mean my knitted sidekick littleROBOTbill (my online gaming name is bigROBOTbill), he was a pressie from my clever daughter, he arrived with his arms tied up with raffia so that he couldn't start world domination without me.

:)

]]> Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:41:57 +1300 JacksonP http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247700#post247700 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247700#post247700 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:51:02 +1300 Jos http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247701#post247701 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247701#post247701 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:51:28 +1300 JacksonP http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247719#post247719 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247719#post247719 Presso On the March.

You realise starting coffee machine photos could be dangerous? ;-)

]]> Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:16:23 +1300 JacksonP http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247721#post247721 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247721#post247721 Vespa.

Friend's scooter shop in Mt Eden before it moved to Newton Rd.

]]> Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:36:29 +1300 Ian Dalziel http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247836#post247836 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=247836#post247836 The faucets strong...
the Presso...
so thats where the Darth Vader headgear look came from...

]]> Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:39:48 +1300 Ian Dalziel http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=248005#post248005 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=248005#post248005 Cross stitches...
boingboing has a new knitted dalek...

]]> Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:16:58 +1300 Chris Waugh http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=248194#post248194 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=248194#post248194 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:43:08 +1300 Sofie Bribiesca http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=248431#post248431 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=248431#post248431 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:22:46 +1300 JacksonP http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=248435#post248435 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=248435#post248435 This is another busy robot.

Nice.
We've had craft, now for some Kraftwerk.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXa9tXcMhXQ

]]> Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:40:23 +1300 JacksonP http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=248438#post248438 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=248438#post248438 Imperial Assault on their Rebel Base. ]]> Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:45:41 +1300 Jos http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=248449#post248449 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=248449#post248449 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:50:36 +1300 JacksonP http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=248456#post248456 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=248456#post248456 A happy robot at Whakatane airport

But where's he wheely bin?

]]> Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:58:42 +1300 JacksonP http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=248752#post248752 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=248752#post248752 Coffee Machine, Botanical Gardens Auckland.

Forgot about this one. Not sure where the coffee comes out.

]]> Sat, 11 Feb 2012 10:45:24 +1300 3410 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=248831#post248831 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=248831#post248831 Inappropriate temperature response, Parklands, 2004.


Jack,
Would you be so kind as to direct me to the notes re optimum jpg encoding for posting?

]]> Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:40:19 +1300 JacksonP http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=248832#post248832 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=248832#post248832 Upload Guide'. ]]> Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:50:10 +1300 3410 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=248835#post248835 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=248835#post248835 Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:16:51 +1300 JacksonP http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=248837#post248837 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=248837#post248837 Dougal the Dalek.

This fine specimen is in AV World on Dominion Rd. They are working on a voice box so that he will say ?exterminate? as people walk past. They found him on Trademe. I wonder if they?ve seen the Dr No. evil console listed at the moment? I?m?

]]> Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:50:20 +1300 Emma Hart http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=248840#post248840 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=248840#post248840 Much as I love begging...

Okay. The famous snow dalek.

]]> Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:01:03 +1300 Emma Hart http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=248841#post248841 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=248841#post248841 Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:01:42 +1300 Emma Hart http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=248842#post248842 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=248842#post248842 Megan did TARDISes. ]]> Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:03:05 +1300 JacksonP http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=248843#post248843 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=248843#post248843 Okay. The famous snow dalek.

Yay!

Also, not my photos in the main, but this year Megan did TARDISes.
So many great shots on that, but the 'Friends' one is my fav'. Sooo cute! But also evil of course. Sort of. If you squint.

]]> Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:18:56 +1300 Hebe http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=248864#post248864 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=248864#post248864 Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:39:14 +1300 Chris Waugh http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=249073#post249073 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=249073#post249073 Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:17:08 +1300 Chris Waugh http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=249364#post249364 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=249364#post249364 Disassembly?

Could this be? My friendly, local high tension power line that bisects my campus is finally coming down?

]]> Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:46:32 +1300 Jos http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=251219#post251219 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=251219#post251219 Thu, 08 Mar 2012 18:53:15 +1300 Jos http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=251220#post251220 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=251220#post251220 Thu, 08 Mar 2012 18:54:30 +1300 JacksonP http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=251229#post251229 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=251229#post251229 Fri, 09 Mar 2012 07:19:22 +1300 Jos http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=251230#post251230 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=251230#post251230 Fri, 09 Mar 2012 07:35:50 +1300 JacksonP http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=251231#post251231 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=251231#post251231 Fri, 09 Mar 2012 08:05:03 +1300 Ian Dalziel http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=251376#post251376 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-the-robots-are-here/?p=251376#post251376 déjà vu... too
Always worth a second look, eh?
Indeed. Robot is not far from reboot...
(or is that just Canadian for Robot?)

and if a second is too short there's
always the minute examination...
(with an hour glass of course)
There are no idle hands on a clock...

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