Comments on: Signifying Robot: What do you think the Walker looks like? http://blogs.walkerart.org/offcenter/2006/08/30/signifying-robot-what-do-you-think-the-walker-looks-like/ Outside Ideas from Inside the Walker Art Center Sat, 06 Sep 2008 22:14:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Chicago Metallic http://blogs.walkerart.org/offcenter/2006/08/30/signifying-robot-what-do-you-think-the-walker-looks-like/#comment-74902 Chicago Metallic Sun, 13 Apr 2008 14:18:34 +0000 http://blogs.walkerart.org/offcenter/2006/08/30/signifying-robot-what-do-you-think-the-walker-looks-like/#comment-74902 Agree with this "It looks like that ship from Star Wars, where they found R2-D2 and C3PO." :) Agree with this "It looks like that ship from Star Wars, where they found R2-D2 and C3PO." :)

]]> By: Off Center » Attack of the Giant Robot! http://blogs.walkerart.org/offcenter/2006/08/30/signifying-robot-what-do-you-think-the-walker-looks-like/#comment-3900 Off Center » Attack of the Giant Robot! Fri, 22 Sep 2006 15:09:38 +0000 http://blogs.walkerart.org/offcenter/2006/08/30/signifying-robot-what-do-you-think-the-walker-looks-like/#comment-3900 [...] The Walker-as-robot metaphor gets literal next month as the annual Student Open House welcomes Giant Robot magazine founders Eric Nakamura and Martin Wong for an artist talk. To promote the event–which also features kung fu films, music by Birthday Suits (with former members of Sweet J.A.P.), and big-screen Mortal Kombat battles–Walker designer Scott Ponik turned to a friend, Souther Salazar, to create an original artwork. I emailed Souther, who illustrated a GR cover last winter and is friends with the magazine’s founders, to see how the drawing came to be. His reply: i came up with the design by asking scott to tell me about the walker, the event, about minneapolis this time of season, the trees, the animals, and anything else he could think of. scott gave me a list, told me about the leaves on the ground, the state bird, the look of the walker center, and many other things. [...] […] The Walker-as-robot metaphor gets literal next month as the annual Student Open House welcomes Giant Robot magazine founders Eric Nakamura and Martin Wong for an artist talk. To promote the event–which also features kung fu films, music by Birthday Suits (with former members of Sweet J.A.P.), and big-screen Mortal Kombat battles–Walker designer Scott Ponik turned to a friend, Souther Salazar, to create an original artwork. I emailed Souther, who illustrated a GR cover last winter and is friends with the magazine’s founders, to see how the drawing came to be. His reply: i came up with the design by asking scott to tell me about the walker, the event, about minneapolis this time of season, the trees, the animals, and anything else he could think of. scott gave me a list, told me about the leaves on the ground, the state bird, the look of the walker center, and many other things. […]

]]> By: Freddi Vignette http://blogs.walkerart.org/offcenter/2006/08/30/signifying-robot-what-do-you-think-the-walker-looks-like/#comment-3121 Freddi Vignette Mon, 11 Sep 2006 00:39:08 +0000 http://blogs.walkerart.org/offcenter/2006/08/30/signifying-robot-what-do-you-think-the-walker-looks-like/#comment-3121 i was born in malaysia i was born in malaysia

]]> By: Freddi Vignette http://blogs.walkerart.org/offcenter/2006/08/30/signifying-robot-what-do-you-think-the-walker-looks-like/#comment-3120 Freddi Vignette Mon, 11 Sep 2006 00:36:53 +0000 http://blogs.walkerart.org/offcenter/2006/08/30/signifying-robot-what-do-you-think-the-walker-looks-like/#comment-3120 from the side it looks like a robot eagle head. glass window eye balls, glass window mouth... most definitely a robot eagle head. from the side it looks like a robot eagle head. glass window eye balls, glass window mouth… most definitely a robot eagle head.

]]> By: Rich http://blogs.walkerart.org/offcenter/2006/08/30/signifying-robot-what-do-you-think-the-walker-looks-like/#comment-2753 Rich Tue, 05 Sep 2006 14:43:53 +0000 http://blogs.walkerart.org/offcenter/2006/08/30/signifying-robot-what-do-you-think-the-walker-looks-like/#comment-2753 "Academic egoism" is a phrase that comes to mind when witnessing the repeated honorifics of Prof. Bunce--Prof.! Emeritus! MFA! Ph.D.!--it's like "award-winning Swiss architects" or the "new new Walker." Nonetheless, you can't accuse the doctor of being rash. He certainly gave the Walker a shot, even if he didn't like its pimply-windowed goodness, and took the time to share his thoughts! Rich “Academic egoism” is a phrase that comes to mind when witnessing the repeated honorifics of Prof. Bunce–Prof.! Emeritus! MFA! Ph.D.!–it’s like “award-winning Swiss architects” or the “new new Walker.” Nonetheless, you can’t accuse the doctor of being rash. He certainly gave the Walker a shot, even if he didn’t like its pimply-windowed goodness, and took the time to share his thoughts!

Rich

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