Archive for May, 2006

Deathbot

Posted by petar on May 23rd, 2006

“Robots are super cool.”, says Deathbot when asked why that’s about the only thing ever drawn by this middle aged Perth artist. “so’s booze”, he adds, explaining why when you check out any Deathbot shit, said robots are, were or about to be drunk.
“what else are they gonna do? It’s only gonna take ‘em about an hour a day to get all their work done. Then what? The obviously don’t want to hang around with jerk humans, so they’ll just get pissed.”
“What the hell are you talking about?” I demand.
“the future, that’s what.” The future indeed.

Anyway, the pictures are real nice. If idiot industrial designers don’t rip Deathbot off when designing the first wave of mechanical men, then God help us all. We’ll probably end up with some stupid mannequin looking monstrosity. Or worse. Obviously I’m influenced by Deathbot’s pictures, and thus can’t really picture what else robot’s could look like.


cheers


clouds


get drunk


butcher jesus

Whatever, just look at the pictures. If you like them head over to www.studiorobot.com.au for more sweet robot action, somewhere on the bottom right of the page I think.

Nathan Cantwell

Posted by petar on May 8th, 2006

Nathan’s passion for photography began unexpectedly in 2003 when his girlfriend bought a small compact 3 mega pixel digital camera. With the ability to review results instantly the realisation dawned to him that a digital camera was a good way to teach yourself a little bit about photography. The quest for capturing images that stood above the average “snapshot” was underway. Well over a year later a growing frustration with the limitations of a basic point and shoot highlighted the fact that his initial casual interest had become a bit of an obsession.

In 2004 while living and working in Darwin Nathan took the plunge and purchased a NIKON D70 digital SLR. He resolved to learn how to use the camera properly and switched it to fully MANUAL mode immediately. Over the past 2 years Nathan has focused on natural and urban Landscape photography. “Landscape photography gives me great pleasure and a sense of ‘interaction’ with the world around me. I strive to capture images that invite the viewer to experience scenes and moments that may otherwise go unnoticed” says Nathan.

From time to time Nathan has pointed his lens at people, but it tends to be in a passive manner. Currently he mainly limits himself to observation and candid photography. “I have tried my hand at wedding photography a couple of times and wish to develop more skills in both formal and candid people photography. I would like to take some time in the future to undertake some formal study in photography. One day I may even look at getting paid to do it on a full or part time basis. To this day my D70 has remained on MANUAL mode”.


Bride


Granite Cascade


Tins


Velvet Rocks

Checkout his Flickr photo stream: www.flickr.com/photos/68887863@N00/


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