330 (Variations on a theme)

I adapted yesterday's robot so that it would be a little more "kid-friendly," and as a result this is now a poster that will hang in A Child's Bedroom.  The child in question belongs to my friend Audrey, who produced this child approximately one year ago.  If my language seems overly clinical please recall that this is a website about robots.  Also, if you want one of these posters you may as well let me know now, otherwise they will not be available.

329 (doorways)

 

Someday we'll all wake up to this, and that'll be that.

328 (The Adventures of Space Guy)

Hey! I missed a few days, though I have excuses for at least a couple of them.  Today's robot came about because I felt like I hadn't done anything cartoony in a long time, and I felt like making something - you know - fun.  So here's Space Guy, a Guy who does stuff in Space, I assume

Also, I have started another blog: Look At This Jeopardy Contestant.  It will be a good place to go when I fail to do robots in the future (which will happen, by the way).

327 (Photos from the Future)

I got this picture in an email from someone claiming to be me, only 20 years from now.  Attached was an image file file (he called it a "PhotoCron," but he might have just been fucking with me), but it was in a format I couldn't recognize, and that crashed Photoshop when I attempted to open it.  Fortunately, VLC Player had no problem at all loading it, except that it gave it some interlacing, which is weird, since you'd think we'd have that shit sorted out by 2030.  Anyway, my plan is to not worry about this too hard.

326 (it was thursday)

You guys, I'm so glad TV's back to happening again, you know?  Like, I watched a bunch of shows today, just completely putting them into my eyeballs.  Also, in an unrelated story, I hate this robot that you see above.  If it had a title it would be "Miles had an idea that he wanted to turn out better, but it didn't, so he threw halftones all over it like an asshole."  Anyway, see you tomorrow (probably not).

325 (Stage 2)

Remember yesterday's robot?  Well here it is again, only different.  And better.  And more exciting.

What's nice about this is that it sort of came out of nowhere, and I'm really happy with it.

324 (Stage 1)

 

This took forever just to draw and ink, so come back tomorrow, at which time I may or may not have done something interesting with it.  In other news, my new watch is from the future.

323 (Spaceball)

It occurred to me, as I searched for images to use as this robot's background (the original, non-blurry/cropped, completely beautiful photo I did use is here) that one of the only compelling reasons I can think of to become massively wealthy would be the ability to buy my way into space.  I could bring my dad too, since I bet he'd want to come.

Tangentially related: I bed you'd be surprised to find out how regularly I watch this video.  Or maybe you wouldn't be.

322 (Walking Tall)

Not only are we unsure of its intentions and purpose, we don't even know what direction it's heading in at any given moment.

321 (the first day of school)

This is another postcard robot.  It's not for sale yet, because the last one is still up for grabs, and let's not kid ourselves and pretend like the market needs to be flooded with robot-themed postcards featuring original work.  Are we all not kidding ourselves?  Good.  Anyway, the original drawing is just black ink on paper, but I recently began fooling around with Corel Painter, and decided I'd color something using it.  Listen: Corel Painter is fun because as far as I can tell it hasn't really changed a whole lot since I used to play around with it on my dad's old ThinkPad back in 1994.  It's more fun now though, because I can read menus for programs, even if they still feel like they were made in 1994.  THEN I saved the file in Corel and the image it created was corrupt, so here is the original.

GREAT STORY RIGHT?

Oh and also it looks like my computer battery just expanded to the point of almost bursting open and spilling out all the Lithium-ions contained inside, which I imagine to be like kind of a glowy plasma cloud, when in fact it is probably just a boring, brown-gray, and poisonous solid.  The good news is that tomorrow's robot has already been drawn, so I definitely won't miss another day until Saturday.

OOPS

Oh hey, sorry there ain't been too many robots to speak of this week.  I would tell you why, but then I would have to admit that I been spending my hours doing something stupid and meaningless that isn't a job or drawing pictures for a website.

320 (Postcards from The Daily Robot, volume 2)

Time for another ink painting postcard like the one from a few days ago.  It's of a fat little robot at the library, and it's entitled "Digital Archving."  It's also for sale Here until someone snaps it up, which happened basically immediately with the previous postcard.  Enjoy.

P.S. if you have never felt the way this kid robot so obviously feels then I'm not sure you should come back to this website.

Free Posters, FYI

So, as you're probably well-aware (thanks to my constant, incessant, unpleasant, unsolicited self-promotion) I have some robot posters (and also other stuff) for sale.  Recently, a few of the poster listings I had up expired, meaning they're no longer available for sale.  Rather than re-list them, however, I figure I'll just throw them in for free anytime someone orders a poster-type item from the store, while supplies last (and let's be honest, they usually do).  Additionally, I've re-listed the most popular Poster Week design that some people said they liked.

Below are the free posters to choose from, which exist in varying quantities (no more than 4 of any one design) that I can't be bothered to specify further because I am not an inventory-intensive man.

Tell your friends, also your enemies.

319 (Postcards from The Daily Robot, volume 1)

This is a little painting I did on a blank postcard. If you like it, you can buy it here for a tiny sum. Nevermind, it has already sold, but I'm going to do more of these too, probably sooner rather
than later. So, if you're a fan of sending postcards, keep an eye out. Hope you like it!

by Mo Martin

Sure he already had X-Ray vision. But it was fun to order things from the back of comic books!

318 (C-c-c-clawmbo Breaker)

Here's this thing, which didn't start out as much but wound up being alright, I guess. Also, I hate to be the guy who is always telling other people to spend money on products he has created, but like literally very few Daily Robot Shirts have ever been sold to anyone, which means that if you get one you will almost definitely be the only person in your [any unit of geographic division, literally] to have one. think about it.

by Mo Martin

In the eternity before the steel met the skin, before the horrible rending, it was possible to believe it was not a lunge, but a fall. A desperate hand reaching out, a new form of life begging for support from the old. And perhaps, even after the death, you could see it that way. Perhaps life is that which destroys, even when it just wants help.

317 (Summer is Over)

It is Labor Day, which means that everything after today is somehow less fun than anything that preceded it. Rule of seasons!

by Mo Martin

I knew it was my last night, which was a lot more than a lot of people knew, when It came for them. So I found some place dark. Well, it wasn't really dark. I found some place away from lights, y'know? Way out in the country. And I just looked at the stars. And part of me felt small, next to them, like part of me always did. But part of me said, look at those tiny stars. They think they're enormous, these giant reactions of chemicals and forces. But here they are to me, just tiny points of light. Then I saw the red light weaving across the field. And before It reached me, I just laughed at It, and whatever It thought made it good enough to judge and execute us.

316 (Face Array)

You might say "hey, this doesn't really look like a robot," but I would counter that the rules have been "anything goes" since about 1968.  And anyway, this is a real, actual object that exists and that I put together out of some old classroom equipment that was going to be thrown away, specifically one of these, which apparently retails for more than a goddamn iPod touch, which is nuts, since probably an iPod touch could somehow do this thing's job, right?  Anyway, I gutted it (before I knew how much it might be worth to a person setting up a classroom for deaf people 10 years ago), secured some keen IKEA Dioders inside of it, and put it back together.  I think it looks like a miniature version of the sort of thing that will eventually be in charge of all of us.  MOST IMPORTANTLY, this robot/modern piece of lamp-equipment is FOR SALE at the occasionally-popular Robot Store.

315 (5-shooter)

Oh hey, I am not going to write more than this sentence tonight, because all I want to do is listen to this - You can listen to it too.

314 (Fake Archeological Finds)

The Idea here is like, this is a ridiculous thing found in an old tome found within some older tomb that was mostly about how some boring-ass civilization from whenever grew their baby corn crops using only the lunar phases, but then OH SHIT it turns out a big robot skull god also hung around their sacred chillout lake or whatever.  The archeologist (in this hypothetical situation) has about twenty-two heart attacks before the ghost of the robot skull possesses his fragile body and begins drawing up Schematics.  I think Mo could probably do something with this idea, long-form style...