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…

Making Redbot Stuff…

Posted by Jon, onehumanbeing on August 18, 2009

“Here, let me give you my card…”

Today’s projects included work­ing on var­i­ous Red­bot mate­ri­als as this cam­paign keeps grow­ing… now I’m ready if any­one asks me if I have a card.

Notes on Feedback

I’ve been asked if Red­bots bite. The answer is — no, and unless you’re aller­gic to paper, card­board, laser-printer toner, mag­nets or the undy­ing  love of a Red­bot — they are com­pletely safe.

I’ve also been asked (by the same per­son — “Hi to Philip in Col­orado”) if Red­bots will be appear­ing in Col­orado. Yes, and now I’m work­ing out the logis­tics of a Red­bot mobi­liza­tion… more on that, if and when it happens.…

Pho­tos From The Studio

Here’s some pho­tos from today of the var­i­ous Red­bot mate­ri­als in process…

Building a Cardboard Redbot Army

Posted by Jon, onehumanbeing on August 16, 2009

Red­bot News! Red­bot now has his own domain name — redbotlovesyou.com, just in time for the release of The Red­bot Army…

I’ve been work­ing on build­ing a Red­bot Army, and I have a small col­lec­tion that is excited to go out and explore the world… which is just what they’re going to do. Start keep­ing your eyes out when you’re trav­el­ing around Long Beach. You just might see one of the Red­bots on a pole, power box, or other metal­lic surface.

The Red­bot Army is made from card­board, small mag­nets, laser printed stick­ers and the usual, spe­cial, Red­bot Loves You! spirit you’d expect from a Redbot.

If you find a Red­bot, just hang­ing some­where, look­ing like it needs a good home, remove it from it’s loca­tion — you just got you­self a FREE piece of art from Jon, one­hu­man­be­ing and Red­bot Loves You! If you have a cam­era of any kind (any­where from cell­phone to video) snap a shot of your new Red­bot and send it to me and I’ll post it in the Red­bot gallery… (info on photo and video post­ing com­ing shortly)

Here’s a small gallery of the begin­nings of The Red­bot Army…