So cool.

Via the Squid

So back a couple days ago I mentioned I-Wei Huang, who is still cooler than you and sheds mechanical ninja-fu like some people shed viruses. Well, he’s shown up again, saving me from actually having to look for something good to post:

Embrace the Crab-Fu, people.

Found this thanks to the always awesome Lem, who got it from I-Wei, because I-Wei lives the life you wish you had:

More posts up soon if my brain ever resembles something that is not oatmeal or boiled millet.

Mister Robotics is still in Tokyo (Follow him on Twitter!), and after a month of sustained human contact I believe the Rotor is presiding in-self contained splendor in the Fortress Of Solitude, so It’s all me until then. And I like I said, my brain is millet.

The results are in at RoboExotica, the votes have been tallied, and the lovely cocktail making robots in Vienna have garnished their accolades. Eddie Codel has a good write-up of the event at LaughingSquid.

“To Serve Man” indeed…

Category – SERVING
winners: Sloth (kal spelletich)

And
fairy juicer (mitch heinrich, david fine)

Category – MIXING (more…)

Because we lack, we present LaughingSquid’s quick post on RoboExotica, partly because I personally am despondent that I am no there, and partially because I am a paradoxically extremely busy lazy fuck this morning (Afternoon? Whatever).

Roboexotica 2008, the 10th annual festival for cocktail robots organized by SHIFZ, monochrom and Bureau of Philosophy, kicks of this Thursday, December 4th at Freiraum in Vienna’s Museumsquartier and runs through December 14th.

Here’s a gallery of photos and video from previous Roboexotica events.

Until recently, no attempts had been made to publically discuss the role of cocktail robotics as an index for the integration of technological innovations into the human Lebenswelt, or to document the increasing occurrence of radical hedonism in man-machine communication. Roboexotica is an attempt to fill this vacuum. It is the first and, inevitably, the leading festival concerned with cocktail robotics world-wide. A micro mechanical change of paradigm in the age of borderless capital. Alan Turing would doubtless test this out.

The Rotor is there with Chassis (background) and collaborator Al Honig:

Zwei Groβes Bier shout-outs to Magnus, Kal Spelletich, Bre Pettis, Johannes G, Gunter, Evelyn, Tina and everyone else! Mister Robotics and I are sitting here having itchy-vein junkie fits because we’re not there, but hey turnabout is fair play I guess. . .

This video is NSFW and NSF just about anyone who isn’t completely comfy with hardcore juicy robot sexytimes (Rotor I’m lookin’ at you)

Yet, it is oddly compelling.

[Thanks(?) David Fine]

Don’t let this happen to you (seen today on the gorgeous Simulated Comic Product)

[Thanks Lee!]

(The Rotor is in Vienna, Mister Robotics is in buried in Systm and I am wrangling art stars and tentacles, so apologies for the lack of posting, I shall take my beating with my tea.)