[Robotgroup] Bruce Shapiro 2nd attempt

[David Nunez]

I don't know how this adds to the discourse, at all...

...but having an idea is, like, 1% of the process.   The 99%  
allocated to the engineering and machining and late nights required  
for pulling it off, even if modeling something else screw by screw,  
is far more than just about everyone else on the planet would (or  
could) do.

While it's true that art students spend hours copying the work of  
masters to better understand them, I'd be interested in seeing /  
helping with a RG project (SandArt II!) that takes the concept in a  
truly unique direction.  I think THAT would be an even better tribute  
to Dr. Shapiro's work.

Regardless, I'm impressed w/ the RG response to this!

carry on...

On Nov 8, 2007, at 3:24 PM, Paul Atkinson wrote:

> I'm sure we can come up with some names that are appropriate for both
> the sand and egg art machines. In displaying these and explaining them
> to lots of people at lots of events, I always mention Dr. Bruce
> Shapiro's site (taomc.com) and give the names of his art work as our
> inspiration. I hope it will be correct to do that going forward, since
> his work has been an inspiration and his stated purpose (with respect
> to Eggbot) is to get kids involved with technology. We share that
> purpose - check our mission statement.
>
> To the best of my knowledge, I have only seen 2 pictures that showed
> the under-workings of any Dr. Bruce Shapiro's Sisyphus machines. They
> were taken by someone in the Dallas Personal Robotics Group at a
> museum in Dallas. That particular machine has a multi-sided wooden
> base and aluminum legs beneath it. I could easily have misconstrued
> that the mechanism was not displayed for any of a number of reasons.
> So, if I have contributed to the misunderstanding, I apologize.
>
> Paul Atkinson
>
> On Nov 8, 2007 1:18 PM, Robo Al <sp-18561884 at ggsys.net> wrote:
>> I would send him a response stating something like.......
>>
>>
>> We are sorry for any confusion. Any such confusion was completely
>> unintentional and that we will work to resolve all of your concerns.
>>
>> We named our art with the intention to give tribute to your original
>> work, but now we see how this can be confusing. We will rename our
>> work shortly.
>>
>> We have always found your creations inspiring and hope, with your
>> permission, to continue using them for our own work. We will try to
>> do a better job of giving you credit in the proper manner and
>> certainly avoid confusions.
>>
>> We will also list your site as a reference to learn more about the
>> works. As you clearly expressed, your site is very educational
>> and we have used it as such. We are sorry about the comments related
>> to hiding the mechanism, which were based on Sisyphus I. We'll make
>> sure that the text in question gets edited in all future signage.
>>
>> ................ just my thoughts.
>>
>> Alberto
>>
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>>
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