who doesn’t love robot love? not me.
(00010111, 1), a diorama
shoebox, cut magazine pages, cotton balls, fishing line, aluminum can
in which a robot-plane writes “love” in the sky, in binary code. in robotplane skywriting shorthand, (00010111,1) means, (love, true). (for those of you studying this language, you will recognize the string “0010111″and the boolean value 1).
dedicated to that time-classic triangular love story of the scientist-engineer-robot. this particular version: at least a year ago, in southern california, there lived a brilliant, beautiful, geeky, young scientist, who spent her days studying e. coli and dreaming of someday becoming an astronaut while her brilliant but unsuccessful inventor husband spent his days inventing robot-planes and dreaming of someday inventing a flying machine that would indeed fly itself. when such a machine finally is created, it flies away from the laboratory/workshop and declares its true love for the e. coli-studying astronaut-hopeful in skywriting.
about this diorama: thanks to a true-life classic love triangle story of the scientist-engineer-comedy writer for inspiration on this particular mini-scene. also, sis with the assist on “use cotton balls as clouds!”
moving bits: this diorama has lots of moving parts. “moving” = unattached to the box. this is good for allowing me to take a variety of photos. i’m learning how to make the bits free-standing so that i do not have to hold things in my left hand as i shoot with my right (see: free range egg, a diorama, for an example of hand-held objects).
evolution and time consumption: these objects are taking me more and more time to take from conceptualization to photography — they are increasing with complexity, and with drafts. see image: (miniature) robot spaceflight evolution in slideshow above.