The runt of the litter…

Posted by Jon, onehumanbeing on October 10, 2009

I have my own Redbot!

I know that may sound silly because I’m the guy who makes the Red­bots, post them around, give them away, send them off in Red­bot Own­er­ship Kits…

It seems like every new Red­bot is headed out into the world in some way, and just the other day I started think­ing, “I want my own Red­bot, one to stay with me…” and today he was born!

Say Hello to Ed the Redbot…

How Red­bots Are Born

Every time I cre­ate a new Red­bot is a spe­cial moment for me…

The raw ele­ments of sticker and card­board come together, and then I apply my scis­sors to it and I cut out the new Red­bot, start­ing in the bot­tom left cor­ner and work­ing counter-clockwise around the figure.

Within a few moments every­thing that is NOT the Red­bot is cut away, and only the new Red­bot remains in my hand… I hold him, and I smile at my new cre­ation, and it smiles back at me, and a new Red­bot has been born into the world.

Tonight there was a runt in the litter.

Must have been a print­ing mis­take of some kind, but one of my Red­bots is a runt — a medium sized Red­bot, but printed just a lit­tle under-sized. Not really sure how that happened…

Funny thing though, when I first held him and smiled, he smiled back and his name Ed popped into my head, and I thought, “what a spe­cial lit­tle Redbot…”

That was even before I real­ized he was the runt.

We’ve bonded already — as you can see from the photo above that he’s sit­ting on a stereo speaker — which is directly across the room from me when I’m on my com­puter. I put him on a small metal sheet, cov­ered in blank sticker material.

So he doesn’t get lost among the many Red­bots in the stu­dio I wrote his name on the back…

The Red­bot fam­ily keeps growing…