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October 2010

20 posts

330 (Variations on a theme)



I adapted yesterday’s robot so that it would be a little more “kid-friendly,” and as a result this is now a poster that will hang in A Child’s Bedroom.  The child in question belongs to my friend Audrey, who produced this child approximately one year ago.  If my language seems overly clinical please recall that this is a website about robots.  Also, if you want one of these posters you may as well let me know now, otherwise they will not be available.

Sep 30, 20101 note
#rare moments of kid-friendliness #posters #adorable children #the daily robot #cute

September 2010

20 posts

329 (doorways)

 


Someday we’ll all wake up to this, and that’ll be that.

Sep 29, 20101 note
#vector artwork #cutouts #the daily robot #straight lines
328 (The Adventures of Space Guy)

Hey! I missed a few days, though I have excuses for at least a couple of them.  Today’s robot came about because I felt like I hadn’t done anything cartoony in a long time, and I felt like making something - you know - fun.  So here’s Space Guy, a Guy who does stuff in Space, I assume




Also, I have started another blog: Look At This Jeopardy Contestant.  It will be a good place to go when I fail to do robots in the future (which will happen, by the way).

Sep 28, 20101 note
#the daily robot #jeopardy #outer space #cartoons #cute
Sep 28, 20101 note
326 (it was thursday)


You guys, I’m so glad TV’s back to happening again, you know?  Like, I watched a bunch of shows today, just completely putting them into my eyeballs.  Also, in an unrelated story, I hate this robot that you see above.  If it had a title it would be “Miles had an idea that he wanted to turn out better, but it didn’t, so he threw halftones all over it like an asshole.”  Anyway, see you tomorrow (probably not).

Sep 23, 2010
#television #stupid things I did today #stupid stuff that sucks #the daily robot
325 (Stage 2)

Remember yesterday’s robot?  Well here it is again, only different.  And better.  And more exciting.


What’s nice about this is that it sort of came out of nowhere, and I’m really happy with it.

Sep 22, 2010
#amatuer footage #war machines #sepia tone #the daily robot #overproduced pieces
324 (Stage 1)

 


This took forever just to draw and ink, so come back tomorrow, at which time I may or may not have done something interesting with it.  In other news, my new watch is from the future.

Sep 21, 2010
#beginnings #sketches #spindly legs #the daily robot
323 (Spaceball)


It occurred to me, as I searched for images to use as this robot’s background (the original, non-blurry/cropped, completely beautiful photo I did use is here) that one of the only compelling reasons I can think of to become massively wealthy would be the ability to buy my way into space.  I could bring my dad too, since I bet he’d want to come.

Tangentially related: I bed you’d be surprised to find out how regularly I watch this video.  Or maybe you wouldn’t be.

Sep 19, 2010
#space #empty space #the daily robot #orbits #outer space #satellite dishes
322 (Walking Tall)


Not only are we unsure of its intentions and purpose, we don’t even know what direction it’s heading in at any given moment.

Sep 17, 2010
#spindly legs #the daily robot #exclamation point #postcards #tripods
321 (the first day of school)

This is another postcard robot.  It’s not for sale yet, because the last one is still up for grabs, and let’s not kid ourselves and pretend like the market needs to be flooded with robot-themed postcards featuring original work.  Are we all not kidding ourselves?  Good.  Anyway, the original drawing is just black ink on paper, but I recently began fooling around with Corel Painter, and decided I’d color something using it.  Listen: Corel Painter is fun because as far as I can tell it hasn’t really changed a whole lot since I used to play around with it on my dad’s old ThinkPad back in 1994.  It’s more fun now though, because I can read menus for programs, even if they still feel like they were made in 1994.  THEN I saved the file in Corel and the image it created was corrupt, so here is the original.

GREAT STORY RIGHT?




Oh and also it looks like my computer battery just expanded to the point of almost bursting open and spilling out all the Lithium-ions contained inside, which I imagine to be like kind of a glowy plasma cloud, when in fact it is probably just a boring, brown-gray, and poisonous solid.  The good news is that tomorrow’s robot has already been drawn, so I definitely won’t miss another day until Saturday.

Sep 16, 2010
#people I used to hang out with in high school #the daily robot #postcards
Building a Sneakier Robot → pbs.org

Via A.G.

Sep 14, 2010
The Daily Robot by MilesD on Etsy → etsy.com

I would like to make you aware of this website that I do.

Sep 13, 2010
FREE ROBOT POSTERS!
So, as you’re probably well-aware (thanks to my constant, incessant, unpleasant, unsolicited self-promotion) I have some robot posters (and also other stuff) for sale.  Recently, a few of the poster listings I had up expired, meaning they’re no longer available for sale.  Rather than re-list them, however, I figure I’ll just throw them in for free anytime someone orders a poster-type item from the store, while supplies last (and let’s be honest, they usually do).  Additionally, I’ve re-listed the most popular Poster Week design that some people said they liked.
Below are the free posters to choose from, which exist in varying quantities (no more than 4 of any one design) that I can’t be bothered to specify further because I am not an inventory-intensive man.


Tell your friends, also your enemies.

Sep 11, 2010
#posters #The Daily Robot #poster week #free #etsy #prints #robots for sale
Sep 8, 2010
318 (C-c-c-clawmbo Breaker)



Here’s this thing, which didn’t start out as much but wound up being alright, I guess.  Also, I hate to be the guy who is always telling other people to spend money on products he has created, but like literally very few Daily Robot Shirts have ever been sold to anyone, which means that if you get one you will almost definitely be the only person in your [any unit of geographic division, literally] to have one.  think about it.

Sep 7, 2010
#videogames #claws #relentless shilling #the daily robot
317 (Summer is Over)

It is Labor Day, which means that everything after today is somehow less fun than anything that preceded it.  Rule of seasons!


Sep 6, 2010
#ink paintings #dark and terrible times #the daily robot
Sep 6, 2010
Sep 6, 20101 note
315 (5-shooter)




Oh hey, I am not going to write more than this sentence tonight, because all I want to do is listen to this - You can listen to it too.

Sep 3, 2010
#the daily robot
314 (Fake Archeological Finds)



The Idea here is like, this is a ridiculous thing found in an old tome found within some older tomb that was mostly about how some boring-ass civilization from whenever grew their baby corn crops using only the lunar phases, but then OH SHIT it turns out a big robot skull god also hung around their sacred chillout lake or whatever.  The archeologist (in this hypothetical situation) has about twenty-two heart attacks before the ghost of the robot skull possesses his fragile body and begins drawing up Schematics.  I think Mo could probably do something with this idea, long-form style…

Sep 2, 2010
#history #the daily robot #archeology #papyrus
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