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Hektor: the Graffiti Robot
Lopex writes "Gizmodo has a story about Hektor, a graffiti robot. Apparently it is for the extremely geeky (or perhaps extremely lazy) tagger. Hektor.ch has photos, information (pdf), and a movie (15 Mb) of it in action."
Hektor really needs to learn some can control. Look at that drip!
He also lacks style, but at least it's not just giant bubble letters.
WWJD.... for a Klondike bar?
Hektor is probably on the way to graffiti /. for taking his site down..
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on front page. The Hektor.ch server is wiping tears right now!
I think this story is a dupe. Didn't they send two of these to Mars?
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suck it sco!
Whatever.. until he goes all-city, he gets no respect. I'd also like to see him hit freights. As soon as he got set up, ZOOOM. Away goes the train, with Hektor hanging on for dear life..
As if those no-talent taggers aren't enough, now we can look forward to them automating the process.
Proof-positive tagging isn't art.
*puts on flame retardant underpants*
I don't know the meaning of the word 'don't' - J
We already have robots that make bad art. They're called "network executives".
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I propose we rename it from Hector into Turk 182 2nd Edition...
"Using a robot seems like mere automated vandalism"
As opposed to good old fashioned manual vandalism? Yeah, there is a lot of art and challenge in putting up a gang name on every friggin corner.
One should not theorize before one has data. -Sherlock Holmes-
A direct link to a 15MB .mov file on the front page of slashdot? Does someone REALLY not like the people who run that server or something?
Yeah, a nice bit of javascript that opens over a half dozen windows in rapid-fire order, ordered a CD from Amazon using my account, sent a flaming email to GWB, redirected me to the goat-whatever guy, played the Dean Scream, and then crashed Mozilla. Well, ok, only the bit about opening up a bunch of photos.
[RANT]Folks- popup windoid things as part of your website are like talking appliances. Every so often, designers get it in their heads that it's a Hot Idea, and then everyone drags them out into the street and demonstrates how the current generation of designers got their new jobs. If I want to open something on your site in a new window, I'll goddamn hold down the modifier key and THEN click the link, thanks much.[/RANT]
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and even graphitti artists will begin to wonder why they put up with the freezing cold, cops, etc. when they could just hook up one of these and lurk in the shadows until it's done. No more lugging around twenty cans of spraypaint.
Right, now they just have to lug around twenty cans of spraypaint, one hundred feet of rope, a level, a ladder, something to attach the rope to the side of the building with, a laptop, data cable, and a robot.
Then, if the cops haven't come after someone complained of the racket of ladders hitting the sides of buildings and boltguns bolting the rope onto the side of a brick building, they may do all the lurking in the shadows they wish while the robot spends a half an hour drawing a landscape.
I was hoping for a robot that would enter data into my Palm Pilot for me.
--"You can lead a man to knowledge, but you can't make him think."
So you're the one! Ooo, I'm gonna get you...
"all your mars are belong to us" tagged across the red planet?
rule.
What will our children do when these grafitti robots come and replace them? They will have nothing to do but wander the streets and vandalise things ... oh wait nevermind.