{"id":9589,"date":"2007-06-06T18:27:48","date_gmt":"2007-06-06T18:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9589"},"modified":"2007-06-06T18:27:48","modified_gmt":"2007-06-06T18:27:48","slug":"retro-bot-art-to-brighten-your-dystopian-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9589","title":{"rendered":"Retro Bot Art to Brighten Your Dystopian Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/broton1.jpg\"><\/center> <\/p>\n<p> If you haven&#8217;t visited Greg Brotherton&#8217;s site, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brotron.com\/\" target=\"new\">Broton<\/a>, you should definitely check it out. He&#8217;s an amazing sculptor who creates robots, rayguns, Frankensteinian operating slabs, and other retro-futuro artifacts. He incorporates a lot of antique appliances in his work, like Kirby vacs and Sunbeam mixers, to create a unique Deco echo of a future that never happened. <\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" align=\"right\" valign=\"top\" border=1 src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/broton2.jpg\">Greg recently updated his site, and among other things, now sells signed limited edition prints, posters, and T-shirts. Above is an image of his Eris robot, being constructed in his studio, that he was kind enough to send us. <\/p>\n<p> <i>Thanks, Greg!<\/i> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digg.com\/submit\" target=\"new\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/img\/badges\/91x17-digg-button-alt.gif\" width=\"91\" height=\"17\" alt=\"Digg!\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t visited Greg Brotherton&#8217;s site, Broton, you should definitely check it out. He&#8217;s an amazing sculptor who creates robots, rayguns, Frankensteinian operating slabs, and other retro-futuro artifacts. He incorporates a lot of antique appliances in his work, like Kirby vacs and Sunbeam mixers, to create a unique Deco echo of a future that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9589\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Retro Bot Art to Brighten Your Dystopian Day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}