Monkee Mee

A little-self portrait in my preferred material and construction choices. January 2013.

The body form is taken from my earlier works 'Paint-Ghost' (or Skull-Ghost). 2010/11

 

 

The Munny

In the past few weeks i had been working on my Kidrobot Munny, one thats been sitting around for the past few years. It shouldn't have taken that long at all!

But after a hell load of cutting and dry testing its ready to be pieced together. And why not capture the coming together of this (well, one arm) ?

I filmed this in order to show the amount of pieces and gluing is needed for something seemingly simple. Its also a good opportunity for myself to learn about how i work; as well as learn some basic editing skills on Final Cut Pro (i originally started on Premier Pro). 

So far i unexpectedly learned a bit about setting the scene, camera stand, and how difficult it is using an ordinary hand held camera! I am also much more aware of how natural lighting and the normal room lighting of my space affects footage and mood; for the footage and my own working mood!

Ok, after nights of filming and gluing... one arm down! D: one more to go and the head turret to add before some pics...

[ AA-LRM ! ] No.1

Art Attack Loo Roll Moment ! : No.1

REMEMBER when you younger, and there were those creative programs or arty sections on television? Growing up in england i watched Art Attack and Blue Peter, where they show children how to make [ cool ] things out of packaging boxxes and such.

[ I always knew i can do what they did. Well, whenever i tried saving a loo roll or two, the mother threw them away. ]

So i guess it's time to revisit that make something out of this loo roll i just picked up, and i just felt like making something of it!

No.1 is simply based on the form of the hollow cylinder. And why not extended it!

It's a combination of being/was an architecture student, recycling and fantasy/Scifi.

So that's doing sketch models smashed with- using rubbish smashed with- influences of [ Gundam ] / [ Matrix ] / [ Howl's Moving Castle ]. And wasn't planned at all. I like doing things with dreaming and thinking.

[ Imagination ] + [ Sketch modelling ] 

A makedo-bot

Trying my hand at abit of Makedo! Its my first time, but probably not going to be the last...

The guys from Makedo came across my cardboard bots on flickr and have asked if i could do a little something for a shop display. Hell Yeah! of course i would.

But using found materials and things, not as hard as i first imagined. And little it is not. Fun and challenging it is!

 

 Upper arms: single cereal boxx and a re-clip

 

Right arm with articulation

 Left arm and 'safe-saw' hand

 

Elbow joint with 2 plastic cups and a handful of  Makedo parts!

 This part is particularly fun and im kinda proud of it :)

Still got a body to build, no legs but tracks?