Post Apocalyptic Giant Beetle
May 22, 2007 9:54 PM Subscribe
Terrifyingly awesome giant robotic beetle. Sadly, only a sculpture... for now...
And it's trying to perform cunnilingus on French AIDS patients right now.
posted by gsteff at 10:01 PM on May 22, 2007 [2 favorites]
posted by gsteff at 10:01 PM on May 22, 2007 [2 favorites]
Giant robotic Michael Jackson will destroy them both, with his eye lasers.
posted by Artifice_Eternity at 10:13 PM on May 22, 2007
posted by Artifice_Eternity at 10:13 PM on May 22, 2007
Golly, she doesn't look as if she's just expecting baby
posted by grobstein at 10:17 PM on May 22, 2007
posted by grobstein at 10:17 PM on May 22, 2007
OK, if the readers of this site only come to understand one thing about me, I need it to be this; hotty East German/ Russian chicks holding back giant, post-apocalyptic, mechanical Coleoptera are a good plot point to whatever movie you want me to produce.
I don't have a lot of money, but fortunately based on your pre-lim photos, that won't be a problem.
And for the record, my dream is that this will outdo both Cherry 2000 and Hell Comes to Frogtown. I know I'm aiming high, but if I didn't, what would be the point?
posted by quin at 10:31 PM on May 22, 2007 [1 favorite]
I don't have a lot of money, but fortunately based on your pre-lim photos, that won't be a problem.
And for the record, my dream is that this will outdo both Cherry 2000 and Hell Comes to Frogtown. I know I'm aiming high, but if I didn't, what would be the point?
posted by quin at 10:31 PM on May 22, 2007 [1 favorite]
Oh man, if only I had the money to buy that beetle and put it in the front yard. My roomie is deathly afraid of bugs. It'd be so awesome.
posted by Salmonberry at 11:44 PM on May 22, 2007
posted by Salmonberry at 11:44 PM on May 22, 2007
Holy crap! How many more of these stealth Transformers spams are we expected to endure?!
posted by Dave Faris at 12:14 AM on May 23, 2007
posted by Dave Faris at 12:14 AM on May 23, 2007
That was the first thing I thought of when I saw this fpp, chrominance. Love it.
posted by dreamsign at 12:22 AM on May 23, 2007
posted by dreamsign at 12:22 AM on May 23, 2007
See also the Vancouver Museum's giant crab.
posted by justsomebodythatyouusedtoknow at 1:18 AM on May 23, 2007
posted by justsomebodythatyouusedtoknow at 1:18 AM on May 23, 2007
See also: the sculptures at Birdland in Bourton-on-the-Water.
posted by chuckdarwin at 2:18 AM on May 23, 2007
posted by chuckdarwin at 2:18 AM on May 23, 2007
That’s my kind of art. If I owned one I’d put it right on my desk and never want for an ice-breaker again.
Thanks jonson, I always enjoy your posts. I don’t know how you manage so consistently find such unique, high quality work, but your posts never fail to give me something to think about.
posted by BostonJake at 2:59 AM on May 23, 2007
Thanks jonson, I always enjoy your posts. I don’t know how you manage so consistently find such unique, high quality work, but your posts never fail to give me something to think about.
posted by BostonJake at 2:59 AM on May 23, 2007
This giant cockroach robot will kick that beetle's ass.
posted by flapjax at midnite at 4:44 AM on May 23, 2007
posted by flapjax at midnite at 4:44 AM on May 23, 2007
wsg: thanks for the boll weevil link. Saw that (or something very like it) when I was just a lad, passing through Enterprise on the way down to the Florida panhandle. A bizarre monument to an insect: makes me proud to have come from Alabama!
posted by flapjax at midnite at 4:48 AM on May 23, 2007
posted by flapjax at midnite at 4:48 AM on May 23, 2007
Why is it all the cool high-tech stuff comes after the apocalypse.
posted by stbalbach at 5:23 AM on May 23, 2007
posted by stbalbach at 5:23 AM on May 23, 2007
Things like the steam bug make me want to drop everything & go become a machinist.
If you don't feel the same way, well, I guess you're just dead to me then.
posted by aramaic at 5:54 AM on May 23, 2007 [1 favorite]
If you don't feel the same way, well, I guess you're just dead to me then.
posted by aramaic at 5:54 AM on May 23, 2007 [1 favorite]
That steam beetle is exactly how I envisioned the sniffer robot in Fahrenheit 451.
posted by Terminal Verbosity at 6:06 AM on May 23, 2007
posted by Terminal Verbosity at 6:06 AM on May 23, 2007
This will undoubtedly be the coolest thing I see today.
In other news I just quit my job to go buy a blow torch and start raiding scrap yards. Soon my giant mantis will rise.
posted by MasonDixon at 6:54 AM on May 23, 2007
In other news I just quit my job to go buy a blow torch and start raiding scrap yards. Soon my giant mantis will rise.
posted by MasonDixon at 6:54 AM on May 23, 2007
Holy crap! How many more of these stealth Transformers spams are we expected to endure?!
Ha! That's exactly what I thought, too. Next it will be giant, robotic locusts.
posted by Gamblor at 7:48 AM on May 23, 2007
Ha! That's exactly what I thought, too. Next it will be giant, robotic locusts.
posted by Gamblor at 7:48 AM on May 23, 2007
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