Futurism is an artistic movement in Italy around 1910 that tried to express the energy and values of the machine age. It was about looking to the future and forgetting the past. Like Bauhaus it was about angular shapes combined with curved edges. The shapes used were extravagant and unrealistic but the colours were simple and plain and patterns were nonexistent. I feel that by looking at futurism and bauhaus it will give me ideas and themes to design my set and location for my robot. As my robot is a robot butler/maid I feel this will work well together.

Bauhaus style and Movement!

Bauhaus was a design school that emerged in Germany in 1919. Bauhaus designers and their students broke from tradition and developed a very modernist style. Their primary intention was to integrate art, technology and craftsmanship by ignoring precedent and generating a new design philosophy. The innovative ideas ranged from architecture to furniture design to typography. They believed that design of any sort ought to be considered a high art as does painting or sculpture.

Futurism and Bauhaus!!!

Futurism

noun

1.

a style of the fine arts developed originally by a group of Italian artists about 1910in which forms derived chiefly from cubism were used torepresent rapid movement and dynamic motion.

2.

often initial capital letter a style of art, literature, music,etc., and a theory of art and life in which violence, power,speed, mechanization or machines, and hostility to the pastor to traditional forms of expression were advocated or portrayed.

Bauhaus

Bauhaus was a design school that emerged in Germany in 1919. Bauhaus designers and their students broke from traditional and developed a very modernist style.

After deciding that I would create my robot as a servant for my one minute slapstick comedy sketch I looked at different designs of existing examples. One of the biggest influences was the Jetsons. It is a cartoon family called the Jetsons who live in the year 2062. It was created by Hanna-Barabera who also created the Flintstones and had a similar storyline . It was First aired in 1962 and tells the story of an American family in a Futuristic Utopia filled with Robotic contraptions, aliens, holograms and time saving inventions.

From initial research into robots and the design of robots I really liked the idea of a robot servant. The first robots that were designed were initially created to ease the workload of the everyday man. They were supposed to make are lives easier, they would work for free, work all hours of the day and you don't have to feel sorry for them as they are only robots.

Robot

noun

1.

a machine that resembles a human and does mechanical,routine tasks on command.

2.

a person who acts and responds in a mechanical, routinemanner, usually subject to another's will; automaton.

3.

any machine or mechanical device that operatesautomatically with humanlike skill.

Bots and Bananas! The first task!

The first project of this year is to produce a robot that can walk, trip, slip and fall. To do this i must create a complex Bipedal robot. I will start by researching robot designs and slapstick comedy to influence my ideas. Slapstick.... but what makes up a slapstick comedy, Slapstick is a type of comedy involving exaggerated violence and activities which exceed the boundaries of common sense. Some of the most famous and copied slapstick artists are Charlie Chapman, buster Keaton, Laurel and hardy and the Three stooges.

New Year, a new start!

After the holidays its great to be back. After the first week of lectures and seminars it looks like this year is going to be a good year filled with many different projects and event to really get into. The first brief "bots and banana" sounds amazing, we are going to create a robot that can walk, trip and slip over and fall. Im excited to get started, but know that it will be a difficult few weeks trying to achieve the look and feel I want.