Deborah mentioned that she has ideas but doesn't execute them. I had an idea this week and executed it - is that a good thing or a bad thing? If I sell it and get money then it is a good thing. To wit, the Robox:
White oak, ash, ambrosia maple and metal hardware.
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It needs lungs, kidneys ,a liver, a heart and a hat.
He had a hat in an early iteration, but that was omitted during final assembly. Maybe the next one will have some headgear.
Just remember, when it starts to move, you have to yell, "It's alive!!! It's alive!!!".
LOL - you know I will. I will keep it out of my la-bore-a-tory during thunderstorms - we should be fine.
Crafty
His brow is forbidding
As though guarding the chest
That wants filling.
Yet a forward foot
Welcomes and offers
To meet us halfway.
Thus intrigue and charm
Overcome trepidation
And we pounce!
And take him home
And find uses for him
We never suspected.
I like the Easter Island vibe.
Whoever buys it will have fun putting their own personality stamp on it.
That would be neat in a kid's room or:
free little library
Take me to your cedar.
Kudos to the Executioner! And the Creative Director! With a hat tip to the Hapless Hand who does all the sawing, schlepping and sweeping up!
As ricpic noted the movement of line and welcome in the leg, along with the opposite direction arms, works well with the box as does the noted head vibe.
Speaking of cedar, I bought a stylin' blond Lane cedar chest built in 1958 (tag still in it) at the resale store this week using my 20% senior discount and will be using it as my entry way landing bench. Not quite a Robox, but the closest thing I have to a Dumbutler offering a seat or holding a bag.
If you've got it, flaunt it.
deborah, I had the free little library thought as well.
Cool, Nick. I heard about them about three years ago when my niece wanted to put one up at her house.
I learned about the free little library concept over at Althouse where they were recently mentioned and pictured. Apparently Madison is awash in them.
Perhaps the Marketing Agent could rebrand it as the RoBookx (Roboox?) for that market.
Those free little libraries are ubiquitous in Madison and here in the Twin Cities. I use them, and we have donated books as well. No time pressure like you have w/ public libraries.
Note to the Designer: There is something about the shoulder board that creates a visual stop for me, causing me to want to mess around trying out different pieces of wood there or perhaps take a little more off the sides or front of the board used--something to slightly soften the squareness of the line which goes with the box but not the more natural look of the other body parts.
However, I'm guessing that piece of mental meddling and wondering comes from the wood carver in me, always thinking about changing a shape or taking off more that once gone cannot be added again or changed back, along with the visual learning bent that prompts me to rearrange the room I just set up in order to try it out another way, only to find what I set up the first time is what works the best. In addition there's also the voice of the perfectionist to be taken into consideration as it works relentlessly under the surface to curtail or shut down all creativity and creative effort, which fortunately is like water freely falling, pooling, rising and backing up until it overflows, reforms or finds a new path around whatever obstacles are in the way.
Thanks to all of you for taking time to comment. I am sometimes hesitant to post my own work as some of it is fairly personal.
Three people locally suggested the "Tiny Library" idea - I had never heard of it, and who knew so many Wisconsinites lived here? I sure didn't.
MamaM - I went back an looked at pictures I took of earlier versions of this idea - whether I completed them or just piled them up, took the picture, then put the parts back in a box. It turns out that some of the subconscious elements, such as the elemental head, have been around for a while, but what we see as shoulders in this version started out as arms in earlier versions - just straight arms sticking straight out. Now they have morphed into robot deltoids, but who knows what is next for that horizontal element between the head and the thorax? I sure don't. Whatever shows up shows up.
It is difficult for me to write too much about the creative process as sometimes I just want the object to happen. No thinking, no over-thinking, just piling up stuff and seeing what speaks to me. Writing about it makes me self-conscious.
So when I get a chance I will get back to sawing and stacking and seeing what happens. I am sticking with the shelf idea as I am just not bold enough to build objects that size that are completely non-functional - my internal critic is something along the lines of "Will anyone buy this?" So on some level the thing has to function as a box and be strong enough to be picked up by his head. But you have given me something to think about, and who knows what the next one will look like? I sure don't. Will someone like it enough to take it home with them? Some days the answer is yes and I am pleasantly surprised when that happens.
I've not seen a tiny library in real life before, and only recently heard about it online and saw a picture at the link.
Library or not, the shelf idea is a good one, as is the name Robox, and the constructed structure/sculpture/wooden item that bears the name .
Beyond that, in putting it together and presenting what you made here for comment, a "third thing" resulted just as it did when the idea and the wood came together to result in something more.
Creative dynamic is a force that has the power to invite, especially so when excellence, beauty, harmony or purpose is evident. Such expression call forth responses that include variations of "Yes, Aha, What if? and That reminds me...", and when those kinds of remarks show up as they did here in the comments, they are the evidence that the creative effort engaged and expended has taken on a life of its own.
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