Inspiration

Bilal's "Robots" x Mikael Colombu

I am LOVING the new video for Bilal's "Robots" - just in time for elections. Great job, Mikael Colombu!

They're baaaaack

A giant one!

Ok, ladies and gentlemen, we are officially under attack. Or maybe they're just on vacation but either way they're everywhere! More found in NYC...

A regular sized one - what a PLEB!

Another citizen of the street-bot community - btw the Chrysler building is in the background if you can make it out...

In search of the master of the suicidal streetbots

Durocher & Milton

Parc & Milton (north side)

Hutchinson & Milton

The squashed little square bodies, the outward pointing feet, the familiar triple-lined center. They're everywhere! On Milton Ave., anyway. Who is creating these buddies (and how!)?

UPDATE: Apparently, our buddies can be found all over Montreal - Place Ville-Marie, St. Laurent, Square Victoria... Looks like I'm going to have to go on an adventure and find the whole family!

Let's call them streetbots, Montreal

Parc & Milton (south side)

Aylmer & Milton

These little guys can be seen around the McGill Ghetto in Montreal - usually in Frogger mode, in the middle of an intersection, trying to avoid traffic despite their immobile positions. They're made of some sort of thick glue, embossed into the pavement. Interestingly enough, each one's head is pointing in the same direction (east). One friend's oh-so-avant-garde theory is that they are being squashed by cars, symbolically suggesting the death of technology. Another ponders the technicalities; or more specifically the directionality, wondering where they are all going, who they are going to meet, what are they going to talk about (assuming they are going to a streetbot meeting, of course). In either case, these little dudes are corner-of-the-eye catchers; sweet reminders of simplistic creativity.