Comments on: Typewriter sculptures

Typewriter sculptures

dobbs — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:51:41 -0800

I disassemble typewriters and then reassemble them into full-scale, anatomically correct human figures. I do not solder, weld, or glue these assemblages together- the process is entirely cold assembly. {flash, sound}

By: meech

meech — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:58:38 -0800

Absolutely amazing and beautiful. The X on the eyes of the dead cat made me laugh out loud - LOL, if you like.

By: ZenMasterThis

ZenMasterThis — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:59:21 -0800

Very cool sculptures. Meh for the Flash.

By: CaseyB

CaseyB — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:04:19 -0800

Here's a polite request to all pretentious artiste web designers: leave my browser window the hell alone, thanks.

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:06:00 -0800

Yeah, interesting premise, shit GUI.

By: blaneyphoto

blaneyphoto — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:14:42 -0800

Amazing sculpture!

By: Tomorrowful

Tomorrowful — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:17:26 -0800

Heck, the GUI doesn't even work for me. Big blank spaces instead of images.

By: majikstreet

majikstreet — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:18:22 -0800

Am I the only one who doesn't see any link?

By: Ostara

Ostara — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:19:18 -0800

Those are incredible sculptures.

By: Forktine

Forktine — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:19:28 -0800

So with no solder or glue, how do these stay together? Are there bolts and screws, or twisted wire, or something like that?

By: jamesonandwater

jamesonandwater — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:22:43 -0800

Am I the only one who doesn't see any link? It's in the "I". These are pretty cool. I like the cat.

By: fleetmouse

fleetmouse — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:23:01 -0800

=x_x=

By: HuronBob

HuronBob — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:23:39 -0800

very good.... thanks...

By: basicchannel

basicchannel — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:26:41 -0800

This website makes me want to punch a typewriter in the dick.

By: intermod

intermod — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:27:12 -0800

majikstreet: *I* also missed it at first. Poor choice on dobbs' part. Cool sculptures!

By: ZachsMind

ZachsMind — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:31:46 -0800

Thanks for the warning on the flash. Not clicking. Get back to me when it's an html page with embedded jpgs. Like an online gallery should be. And tell the dead typewriter cat to get off my lawn.

By: edgeways

edgeways — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:34:10 -0800

pretty much exactly what everyone has said already... cool art, poor website, wish the link was more obvious... etc. Not sure if "anatomically correct human figures" is strictly accurate, just cause some of them have boob-like projections doesn't mean they are "anatomically correct", just as ascii porn is not "anatomically correct". but, again, cool sculptures.

By: Durn Bronzefist

Durn Bronzefist — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:48:30 -0800

Wow. Fantastic. But 2nding the question about how the bits are held together.

By: invitapriore

invitapriore — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:56:18 -0800

Thanks for the warning on the flash. Not clicking. Get back to me when it's an html page with embedded jpgs. Seriously? Get off the internet and take a day trip, man. Giving up on some potentially interesting stuff because it will cause you a minor inconvenience as you use your web browser is one of the first symptoms of Taking This Shit Way Too Seriously (check it out in the DSM-IV). That was some great sculpture. It takes the right sort of eye to look at something as boxy and unassuming as a typewriter and get the hunch that it can be re-arranged so beautifully.

By: darkstar

darkstar — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:58:07 -0800

Neat!

By: supercres

supercres — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:59:15 -0800

You also resized my browser window, you self-inflated bastard. Cool stuff, though. (Just not cool enough for you to fill my Cinema Display.) On preview: agree with CaseyB.

By: Fuzzy Skinner

Fuzzy Skinner — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:01:21 -0800

Here's a polite request to all pretentious artiste web designers: leave my browser window the hell alone, thanks. Agreed. My love for those sculptures is overcome by my annoyance of a website that resizes my freakin' browser for no reason, since one of the great things about Flash is that is scales to whatever size window it's in! So let it!! I hate feeling petty, but instead of leaving the site with a good feeling of having seen something awesome, I leave annoyed as I resize my browser again. I'm sure this isn't what you intend, Awesome Artist, so bear it in mind. End of rant. Thanks for the post, dobbs, those are awesome sculptures.

By: supercres

supercres — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:03:24 -0800

invitapriore: Seriously? I would have thought that the "off my lawn" quip would your question.

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:04:13 -0800

That's MUCH better than my idea, which was to disassemble anatomically correct human figures and then reassemble them into full-scale typewriters. In fact, now that I think about it, my idea was terrible.

By: The Light Fantastic

The Light Fantastic — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:09:56 -0800

In fact, now that I think about it, my idea was terrible. The keys would definitely stick. Great sculptures - would have looked at them all but I got frustrated with the interface.

By: porpoise

porpoise — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:11:18 -0800

Neat stuff! Now someone's gonna have to figure out how to put spring clockwork gears in it and make it dance!

By: breath

breath — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:19:49 -0800

I hope its head falls off.

By: aubilenon

aubilenon — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:33:23 -0800

You guys all know you can turn off javascript resizing your browser (for firefox, anyway) As a result, I am not angry at this site! I liked it!

By: gemmy

gemmy — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:42:58 -0800

Very cool sculptures! But yes, bad interface. And I didn't even get my window re-sized (FF FTW).

By: puke & cry

puke & cry — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:51:08 -0800

You guys all know you can turn off javascript resizing your browser (for firefox, anyway) I already had that turned off but that only makes it mildly better. This interface is truly complete garbage. It's almost enough to overshadow the awesome sculptures.

By: optovox

optovox — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:09:42 -0800

Amazing scuptures. Great post! Fucking hipsters.

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:14:39 -0800

Oh wow dobbs, those are awesomely elegant, fascinating sculptures. The sitting woman one is great, the cat one too. And they're not just novelty amazing, they really are beautiful. Here's a link to another way of viewing the sculptures and info about the handsome artist, Jeremy Mayer. Thanks for the breathtaking visuals. ooohh.

By: autodidact

autodidact — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:17:58 -0800

I don't need your website to be 2560 pixels wide.

By: not_on_display

not_on_display — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:23:14 -0800

Wow, crazy beautiful sculptures, maddeningly distracting interface.

By: dobbs

dobbs — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:25:28 -0800

The artist sent just sent me an email saying that your comments aren't going unheard. The GUI will be worked on.

By: Tomorrowful

Tomorrowful — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:26:18 -0800

To those annoyed by the flash: nickyskye's link is a boring, flat page that actually, y'know, works. And wow are those amazing sculptures.

By: Ziggurat

Ziggurat — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:27:23 -0800

If someone discovered the formula for a drink that would bestow eternal life, but posted it on a site that re-sized your browser, people here would bitch about it. I dislike laborious flash interfaces and re-sizin' browsers as much as the next person, but we get it...do we need to whinge about it 14 times? (and that's only counting edgeways' double-post as one whinge). Now back to your regularly scheduled super cool sculptures...

By: Ziggurat

Ziggurat — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:29:11 -0800

Dammit Dobbs! If I'd known it would actually help encourage the artist to improve their presentation, I wouldn't have whinged about all the whinging. Back to my room in the basement, I guess.

By: schyler523

schyler523 — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:35:10 -0800

I liked it...

By: dirigibleman

dirigibleman — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:56:28 -0800

What is it with artists and their stupid, shitty interfaces for their awesomeness?

By: flabdablet

flabdablet — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 22:04:07 -0800

Doctor, I become enraged when I let scripts resize my browser windows! Don't do that, then.

By: gum

gum — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 22:13:16 -0800

Jeremy Mayer got an A on the "take something apart and reassemble it into something new" assignment of Sculpture 101. Too bad he got thrown out of school after the Web Design 101 midterm and wasn't able to finish the art course.

By: dancestoblue

dancestoblue — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 22:15:57 -0800

Unbelievable creativity -- who thinks of making people out of typewriters? Seriously good drugs or a seriously creative head or both. I'm glad I got to see the images, don't care that I had to 'suffer' the 'indignities' involved in seeing them. Thanx for posting.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 22:26:15 -0800

Hey, look what I found when I did a Google search for "disable browser resizing in firefox"!

By: Shutter

Shutter — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 22:26:51 -0800

The sculpture was cool enough that I didn't notice my browser had been resized until I was done.

By: zylocomotion

zylocomotion — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 22:39:54 -0800

I also sculpt, and these make me feel like a clogger who has just seen their first ballet.

By: zylocomotion

zylocomotion — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 22:49:00 -0800

Mike Libby, who was also in a show at Device gallery, does horribly beautiful things to insects.

By: KevinSkomsvold

KevinSkomsvold — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 23:10:46 -0800

Amazing. Just amazing. As far as the browser thing... Jesus, some you act as if it tore your arms off when you clicked the link.

By: Megami

Megami — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 23:17:31 -0800

Going by what is on the link nickyskye provided (and thanks for that BTW) I say clever concept but meh as an artwork - doesn't do it for me. As for 'the browser thing' - some of us are slackers who use the interwebs at work. And many government systems won't view properly with Flash. My loss I know, but there you have it.

By: jimstimpson

jimstimpson — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:03:56 -0800

I love this... fantastic work!

By: Cranberry

Cranberry — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:41:50 -0800

Bust II looks like the artist - see nickyskye's link. How did we get along without you nickyskye?

By: ZachsMind

ZachsMind — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 01:58:53 -0800

Oh I'll do flash. If it's done well. If the material is worthy. I like stupid web tricks. They can be fun. The website resets the size of the browser. Me no likey. Nitpicky? Of course! I think I'll live without seeing a couple examples of manual typewriter junk art.

By: msconduct

msconduct — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 04:37:22 -0800

wow. i love typewriters. always have. the big, fat, underwoods that sit on a desk, the 'portable' ones that weigh 20 pounds but come in their own cases, the ibm selectric which i always thought of as the cadillac of typewriters ... all of them. always have. i never knew i loved typewriters as anything but typewriters, though. this is beautiful, beautiful stuff. fwiw, i didn't have any problem w/the website--design, execution, whatever--either. but maybe it'd already been changed by the time i saw this.

By: spicynuts

spicynuts — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 06:06:42 -0800

just cause some of them have boob-like projections doesn't mean they are "anatomically correct", To be fair, one of them has labia as well. Unfortunately I have no idea how to link directly to the labia.

By: kingbenny

kingbenny — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 06:56:34 -0800

To those annoyed by the flash: nickyskye's link is a boring, flat page that actually, y'know, works. Beware, though, it has Javascript AND Flash AND it tears your mousing arm off.

By: buzzv

buzzv — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 08:02:49 -0800

I am lucky to feel few regrets about my life. But one that haunts me regularly is the day I discarded the typewriter I used through college. From today's perspective, it was a tabletop symphony of mechanical wonder. Those synchronized flying arms; the delicious thwack given at each touch of a key; the infuriating ever-jamming ribbon that I now miss like an incorrigible offspring who has graduated to a life of their own. Ah, nostalgia - the opiate of the aging. And: Holy shit, what amazing work Mayer does!

By: spicynuts

spicynuts — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 08:32:38 -0800

I recently purchased an Olivetti Valentine typewriter. What I quickly realized is that due to IM, Metafilter, email, etc, I now type too fast for the keys on the typewriter. I can't get more than a few letters in before it jams. I have to actively slow down.

By: monospace

monospace — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 08:38:44 -0800

Sculptures: Meh. Flash interface: Yay!!

By: quin

quin — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 09:29:48 -0800

These would make great Doctor Who characters. I imagine that they would make the sound of an old mechanical Underwood when they moved.

By: Greg_Ace

Greg_Ace — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 10:47:28 -0800

spicynuts: Unfortunately I have no idea how to link directly to the labia. I hear ya. Story of my life, man....

By: fantabulous timewaster

fantabulous timewaster — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:50:42 -0800

"Anatomically correct" might also refer to less titillating sections of bone and musculature that, to my uninformed eye, look pretty snazzy.

By: caution live frogs

caution live frogs — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 06:55:03 -0800

zylocomotion writes "Mike Libby, who was also in a show at Device gallery, does horribly beautiful things to insects." That is cool. But it isn't an insect. It's an arachnid.

By: caution live frogs

caution live frogs — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 06:55:21 -0800

(Or perhaps a mecharachnid?)