Paul Loughridge has a little army of robots that he's preparing to unleash upon the world. He may not be the only one (see our previous post), but certainly one of the most talented. "Lockwasher Design" (his website) displays some robots and guns, but most of the recent work is kept in his Flickr account.
With Paul's exclusive permission, we give you the wonderfully clunky world of re-worked vintage junk and gadgets; an art-form that every red-blooded, geek-minded person can surely appreciate :) Plus, many of these are available for sale - could be a perfect showpiece for your office desk.
See the whole robotic population on Paul's Flickr set. Some photos have notes, detailing the various things from which these creatures were made: everything from old truck emblems, ice-buckets, license plate lights, and cannibalized vintage kitchen appliances, espresso machines and, of course, old typewriters. Each robot has a name and distinct personality: (reminiscent of "Robots" animated movie)
Dogs:
This one probably wins the "cuteness" contest:
------ It all started with making some rockets and ray-guns...
"Junk Ray"
Airstream lunchbox armada
BR2-D2
As a bonus, there is a great set of vintage toy robot heads.
===== Speaking of rayguns...
Check out this page full of steampunk gun masterpieces... Presented by "Weta Digital", well-known visual effects company.
WHAT A GREAT SERIES! Thank you for the inspiration! If I don't get my garden work done, it is the fault of the friend who sent me the link to this great article!
Like don't diss Marxism Leninism! Soviet Union, China, Cuba, North Korea, Pol Pot, Stalin, Mao, Chauchesku... That was just a fluke. Just because Marxism has turned every country it touches into a poverty stricken facist hell-hole, doesn't mean there is anything wrong with Marxism or Leninism! Marxism failed because the people in those countries where inherently inferior and evil - Why if good white upper middle class bay-area hipsters like Cory Doctorow were leading the revolution, it would be nothing but kittens and cupcakes for everyone! After all, Cory is so much cooler than a bunch of dirty and ignorant cossacks.
Insightful and profoundly witty though Anonymous' critique may be, it misses doctorow's point. There may well be very good reasons for criticizing communism, but jet-powered ice-sleds isn't one of them.
These are great pictures, and thanks for posting them. But I've got to agree with doctorow, the commmunism crack is silly, particularly since it was only thanks to the revolution that backward, monarchist, agricultural Russia left the dark ages and actually became industrialized.
I'm with the first anonymous poster- clearly Lenin was responsible for the failure to realize futurist visions not only in Russia, but in every other country in the world. I think he must have used commie magic, or something. Seriously though, obviously this vision of the future never came to pass because it's _completely absurd_. Those sleds are hard to make out, but aren't those propellers in front? They appear to float in mid-air, unconnected to the vehicle. It'd be great to have the streets filled with those- one could imagine the carnage if they crashed into anything.
Those were truly awesome. I need a kit-car version of that first one, so my lifelong dream of filming a movie called "Four-Wheelin' at the Mountains of Madness" can finally be fulfilled.
I am always amazed to see how much nature and maths are linked together. Math tries to explain stuff as good as it can, but nature is always one step ahead. Great food pictures, it just look amazing!
the guy that owns it is a retired airline pilot. he bought that plane used, put it in that forested area and it's his house. he lives somewhere in oregon.
Another notable airplane conversion was a de Havilland converted into a cafeteria by Mexico City's airport, which eventually spawned the Wings restaurant chain. The only picture I could find is under "Historia" at their (over-flashed, slow-loading, misspelled) site at http://www.wings.com.mx
Living in an old airliner up on blocks in your yard isn't all that much different from living in a beat up trailer, but I'd do it, especially if I could get ahold of a 747.
I was in Coca, Ecuador last summer and saw, of all things, a jet airplane turned into a floating nightclub- https://webspace.utexas.edu/faigley/www/ecuador/pages/IMG_1027_JPG.htm
Boeing 307 Stratoliner. IMHO one of the most elegant propdriven aircraft ever produced, certainly the rarest.
I actually worked on this same plane when this picture was taken. I was one of the electricians that restored the plane after it ran out of fuel over Elliot Bay in 2002. A once in a lifetime experience that was.
That football shaped antenna is for the ADF radio, all of the original radio's work on this plane, restored by an old timer who devoted many hours to restoring the radio system, among other retirees from Boeing that helped to restore this wonderfull aircraft.
The Boeing S307 PAA flying cloud in this picture is the only surviving aircraft of ten that were built in the late 30's before WW2. It was designed at the same time as the B17 bomber so it has very similar wings and engines as the old bomber.
A perfectly restored flying craft, the plane now resides in it's final resting spot in the center of the Smithsonian air museum Steven Udvar Hazey Center near the Dulles Airport in Washington DC.
Gotta love those eccentric types! At least the old school black and white images add a touch of class with that bygone age type look about them - swilling down cocktails on one of those ricketty old planes!
it's so wonderful to discover your blog!~!~!! (found out about it thru GROWABRAIN)...your blog is so amazing and inspiring and entertaining...I'd like to spend hours looking at the pics and reading what-not...
its a pitiful state of affairs when a sociologist (scientist) from any University has a country in a map that doesn't exist for 15 years - namely Yugoslavia....
That isopod looks like a giant dust mite... but with more legs. It reminds me of an anime movie I saw where giant insects and fungi were taking over the world.
You first picture is "Go Fish" by Monica Langlois. It is featured artwork from World of Warcraft on the Blizzard site. http://www.blizzard.com/us/inblizz/fanart/images/screens/ss449.jpg
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I think hydroflame was adorable.
WHAT A GREAT SERIES! Thank you for the inspiration! If I don't get my garden work done, it is the fault of the friend who sent me the link to this great article!
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