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in the not-so-distant future, robots have been created to take over the tasks that humans have either deemed too dangerous or too undesirable. DROIDCO's choice to model their garbage collection bot after a giant insect while humorous in theory, wound up scaring a lot of people and harming sales numbers. the HC-514 multi-purpose construction bot however, was a smash hit.
biocup 2020 prelims. theme was the future. went for something a bit more outside my typical wheelhouse that fortunately allowed me to use a lot of weird parts i'd accumulated and had no clue what to do with. additional pictures on my page.
Does your dystopian future require quick deploy assemblage muscle?
Look no further than the Rapid Interchangeable Ordinance Tactical BOT.
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I finally got around to watching West World few weeks ago, and the transformable Riot bot was so cool, so it was a really fun challenge trying to build the compact functions to transform from box to big boy.
I had a design in my head for quite some time to make the micro bots from Big Hero Six, and I just barely put them together. I only made three that are legally made, and have a few more that use illegal connections, or no connections at all.
I hope you guys enjoy them, and if you are going to design, please give credit. I don't normally ask for this, but it would be nice.
This abandoned dome building was an amazing structure, the interior had to be photographed to show its internal architecture! I imagine plants being stored neatly across this room, ready for sales!
Nikon F2, 50mm micro, 2020 Caffenol CH (vit c and potassium bromide) recipe
rev 5NBWTokyoWinter2019013
IN ENGLISH BELOW THE LINE
Foto presa amb una Leica IIIb fabricada el 1938; objectiu Leitz Elmar f3.5 / 50mm fabricat el 1936; pel·licula Adox HR50, caducada de fa uns mesos.
L'estació de Bot és una de les que es troben al llarg de la via verda de la Terra Alta, i la única arran del seu poble. Està en ruines, però hi ha un tren-restaurant a les seves vies, l'anomenat "Lo Sarmentero". Un altre element important d'aquesta estació es que era el nucli central de la logistica militar franquista durant la Batalla del Ebre, ja que fins aquí podien arribar els trens amb soldats i munició.
L'antiga via de tren de Val de Zafán, en bona part convertida a via verda per a disfrutar a peu o en bicicleta, és un lloc fantastic per anar en familia. Nosaltres varem fer el tram (sempre de baixada) entre Horta de Sant Joan i l'estació de Pinell de Brai, on a més, varem dinar. També es coneix com la Via Verda de la Terra Alta. El detall fantastic és que et poden venir a recollir al final del recorregut, pel que t'estalvies la llarguissima tornada TOTA en pujada.
En total varem fer uns 21 quilometres, incloent el petit desviament cap al santuari i gorges de La Fontcalda. Si es vol, es pot continuar baixant fins a Tortosa, tot i que sembla que només recullen de tornada fins a Xerta.
Aquesta linea de tren, iniciada al s. XIX per a transportar carbó, no s'acabà fins el 1942, però amb poc exit. Fou abandonada el 1973. No va ser fins a inicis del s. XXI que es reconvertí en via verda, i de fet recordo haver-hi passat amb cotxe als anys 90, encara.
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Picture taken with a Leica IIIb made in 1938; Leitz Elmar f3.5 / 50mm lens, made in 1936; Adox HR50 film, expired some moths ago.
The former train station in Bot is one of those all along the greenway in the Terra Alta, and the only one located by it's town. It's partly ruined, but a former motorcar serves as a restaurant (Lo Sarmentero), and it's historically important because it was the main logistical hub for the fastist forces during the battle of the Ebro, in 1938. Here they unloaded quite near to the frontline soldiers and ammo (in 2023 it would have been a main target for GPS guided attacks, but that was science fiction back in 1938, and indeed out of range for the republican artillery).
The old Val de Zafán railway, largely converted into a greenway to enjoy on foot or by bike, is a fantastic place to go with the family. We did the section (always downhill) between Horta de Sant Joan and Pinell de Brai station, where we also had lunch. It is also known as the Via Verda de Terra Alta. The fantastic detail is that they can pick you up at the end of the route, so you save yourself the very long way back ALL uphill.
In total we did about 21 kilometers, including the small detour towards the sanctuary and gorges of La Fontcalda. If you want, you can continue down to Tortosa, although it seems they only pick up back to Xerta.
This train line, started in the s. XIX to transport coal, it was not finished until 1942, but with little success. It was abandoned in 1973. It wasn't until the beginning of the s. XXI that was converted into a greenway, and in fact I remember driving past it in the 90s, still.
Jan Smets
(de jachthaven tussen Winketbrug en Kraanbrug is een bijzonder kleurrijk en schilderachtig stukje Mechelen...)
4 days, 50 pastes, 30 stickers.
by the end of it it didn't seem like a holiday.
full 2min video here...
The repair bot is in need of repair,.. It's been a while since I last sketched. I was bored during the break and decided to do a quick sketch :)
Let's name them shall we? Left to right:
Labcoat, Creeper, Butt Launch, Spindle....ok now back story....nope, no back story here.
Couple humanoid and and a couple slightly alien bot designs.
When larger creations are in the works these guys end up being made from the leftover scraps and generally dwell in the cracks and crevices of the display shelf.
This bot started off life as an experiment using the tower from the Ninjago City set. You know, the one with the toilet in it? yeah, that one. I loved the look of that tower and wanted to use it for something. What I ended up with was a robot that almost looks like something from a 1950s vision of the future. I like to think he'd be used to do the heavy lifting in a factory or something. Better than being a restaurant washroom.
COMMENT: Of Bots and Bad Pandas
After trying to log in to Flickr numerous times without success earlier today, I gave up. Too many Bad Pandas. No point posting photos if half the people can't get on to see them. I don't know why this platform is the only one we know that goes down so regularly. Looking at the Help Forum this is a worldwide problem. But that happens to be the least of our problems on Flickr.
There is something more important existentially that goes on every single day on everyone's page that far too many people are turning a blind eye to. I'm talking about bot use. For those who still live in a prelapsarian social media world, bots are either (1) pieces of internet code written specifically to trawl the pages of Flickr faving and in some cases commenting (generically) in order to garner reciprocal visits - you can buy them, or (2) humans behaving in a bot-like manner, simply faving and following as many people as possible in the hope of achieving the same goals - inflated views, faves and followers. Frankly I'm sick of it.
So much so that I will block any person I see that exhibits this bot-like tendency. My list of blocks is hundreds long. Of course this has seen a falloff in my own view numbers. We don't seriously think that all those views of our old photos are real do we? If say you post 3 photos a day and each of them gets 500 views in 24 hours and your total view count for the day is 5,000. I would argue a good percentage of all those extra 3,500 views are in fact unblocked bots.
Opponents of bots on social media platforms (and Flickr is by no means the worst here) estimate that up to 50 percent of all traffic on these sites is bot-driven. Now bots are easy to understand when the corruption of monetarization comes into play. That is not the case on Flickr. But ego is. And it seems to me that ego will drive some people to do very bad things to attract attention to themselves.
Have you ever wondered why that awful out of focus picture of the Grand Canyon has attracted 65,000 views and 1,500 faves? Well very likely this person is using a massive bot. And many people fave unthinkingly. Go to the Activities Feed and press the fave star and you don't even need to visit a person's page. You can fave thousands in an hour or two doing that. But what a hollow feeling. And what does it do for the photography community?
Explore is another area rife with gaming strategies. How many times do you see the usual suspects turn up on a person's page with "Congrats on Explore"? That's the only time they'll visit your page by the way (that's if you're lucky enough to ever get Explored because it seems only magic accounts do every 16-19 days). These are a group of people who fave (or by proxy their bot does) every one of the 500 Explored photos each day, in the belief it will garner them more "followers" (how I hate that word - CONTACTS is so much better). So if you have been in the habit of doing that there is an excellent chance I will have blocked you.
Of course the most dangerous bots of all are the ones pretending to comment. People think they are real, but AI is very clever now. And one in particular has been at the centre of attention during this week. Banned by Flickr after being clearly outed by a "bot catcher". He gets banned, and then the whistleblower gets banned too for exposing the biggest bot commenter on Flickr. All this ended up with the whistleblower rightly being restored, but also the return of the bot user. Some of you will have followed proceedings very closely.
Frankly I've advocated for a long time for view counts to be discontinued. Thousands of views do not make a good photograph. Social media has been bad for photography in that regard. It's made photographers complacent, and even worse, made them conform to particular styles or genres that "succeed" - as if that matters. Photography is an individual art and everyone is unique.
Always remember that not another soul saw Vivian Maier's photographs before she died. And I dare say you rarely see photographs on Flickr even half as good as the ones she spent a lifetime taking.
So if you feel like I do about the integrity of Flickr and bot use, please join us at this group:
....don't like bot-comments/faves? Join us, post your photos there.
Please post it to the Anti-Bots and Anti-Fake group.
* A final point. Mr Ed was a talking horse and not a bot user.
A repair and maintenance bot suited for work in reaction chambers, active engine exhaust ports, and just about any other high heat/radioactive applications. No need to shut down production and process - send in a scorch unit and watch it work in temperatures that would melt the face off a regular repair drone. Expect a slight burn in smell the first time unit is called into service.
Bot break....
Scrappy leftovers always assemble themselves into a robot if not properly resorted into the collection within 24 hours. Also robots with eyes is a thing...I think.
Cleaning mini-bot I built, inspired by these bots from Fazoom.
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Also, for anyone that has been following my personal unemplyoment saga, I finally received a job offer after a much prolonged search. I accepted on Monday, and will start in February. Naturally, I expect this to cut into my building/photography time, but life is good.
EDIT: Recently blogged at The Living Brick. Thanks Iain. I'm honored.
Here’s a little MOC which could be a kinda scouting or planting bot in a futuristic port. I wanted to build something technical but with natural parts and the result was a detailed bot. Then I made the background which is just a stone footbridge and a little isle. Pretty like the rockwork there and the use of medium nougat to display some used look at the footbridge…
If you like it, please leave a fave, a follow or write in the comments below ⬇️.
Bye!
BOT-PINTURA-ART-DETALLES-CUADRO-MACETAS-CALLE-ACUARELAS-FUSION-MANCHAS-PUEBLOS-TERRA ALTA-TARRAGONA-CATALUNYA-ARTISTA-PINTOR-ERNEST DESCALS-
En el detalle de la pintura con acuarelas sobre la calle del pueblo de BOT, apreciamos la fusión entre las manchas que forman las macetas con las plantas y flores junto a una puerta, colores desparramados que cobran una nueva vida a través de su mezcla, logrando la sensación que se busca al pintar con la acuarela, en un rincón de estos pueblos de la Comarca de laTerra Alta, Tarragona, Cataluna podemos estar pintando cientos de obras que recogen la personalidad estética y vital de sus habitantes. Los tonos rojos y anaranjados de los tiestos imprimen fuerza visual en la escena callejera. Pinturas del artista pintor Ernest Descals, a menudo en los detalles habita la más pura esencia paisajista que surge de la aplicación del arte de la plástica viajera.