Profile for BaronVonMonkey - Make a robot everyday

BaronVonMonkey aka Jon Turner is a 24.2 year old boy, has been a member since November 28, 2007, has scored 1722 submissions, giving an average score of 3.47.

URL: http://www.thisisjonturner.com/

Feb 15 '09 by BaronVonMonkey

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Make a robot everyday

At the moment I'm trying to do draw a robot everyday, so I thought I'd post them here as I do them. Go to the flickr pages to see them bigger and read the accompanying bits of story. Enjoy, and feel free to join me by posting your own robotic creations!

The Runaway

The Awakening

He Came In Peace

The Juggler

Until tomorrow, goodbye...

The Monster of Moonstone Ridge

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the golden spatula on Feb 15 '09 at 2:25pm

beautiful works!! Makes me like robots again.

BlueLobster on Feb 15 '09 at 2:27pm

purty

BaronVonMonkey on Feb 15 '09 at 2:27pm

Rose! How could you stop liking robots? (unless they decimated your town and ate your family or something, then I'd understand)

jess4002 on Feb 15 '09 at 2:28pm

all of them are great!

the golden spatula on Feb 15 '09 at 2:34pm

godzilla did that once, but no robots - robots are indeed lovely.

BaronVonMonkey on Feb 15 '09 at 2:48pm

Damn that Godzilla, comin' over 'ere, eatin' our children

Krimson on Feb 15 '09 at 2:54pm

awesome, you are gunna run out of pens though.

BaronVonMonkey on Feb 15 '09 at 3:00pm

aha, but these pens are refillable!

xiv on Feb 15 '09 at 3:01pm

impressive. the first one you've got up there is my fav so far.

againstbound on Feb 15 '09 at 3:03pm

I'm loving your new stuff.

BaronVonMonkey on Feb 15 '09 at 3:06pm

Thankyou! I tried putting that first one on a tee, I think it looks quite nice

the golden spatula on Feb 15 '09 at 3:07pm

woah! yes!

BaronVonMonkey on Feb 15 '09 at 3:09pm

BUT the original is not that big, so it'd prob look less impressive in reality

blossompossum on Feb 15 '09 at 3:10pm

Jon, this is ace!

This makes me like robots beyond the boundaries of Kraftwerk-land.

BaronVonMonkey on Feb 15 '09 at 3:12pm

Blossom!!!

I was listening to Kraftwerk during the creation of at least two of these robos

davidfromdallas on Feb 15 '09 at 3:13pm

your drawing style is incredible

blossompossum on Feb 15 '09 at 3:15pm

This blog is a great thing to see after not having access to the internet for 5 weeks, haha.

*high fives*

How've you been?

Jellyes on Feb 15 '09 at 3:18pm

these are great! sub that tee one, it looks rad.

BaronVonMonkey on Feb 15 '09 at 3:19pm

Thanks David!

Blossposs: I've been good thanks, just driftin, drawing some robots, the usual- I was just thinking earlier today that I should email you and see how you were, cos I haven't spoken to you in aaaaaages (I've hardly been on threadless either)- how is everything?

blossompossum on Feb 15 '09 at 3:24pm

Aye, it's been a while! Everything's going well, thanks--I have a week off now, so I've been catching up on some books I've been planning on reading and the like. It's quite nice.

the golden spatula on Feb 15 '09 at 3:31pm

hey blossom!!! great to hear you're alright - I wasn't around here much as well. Which books are you planing to read?

BaronVonMonkey on Feb 15 '09 at 3:31pm

Ah, I love that feeling of not having anything pressing to do... I have it a lot nowadays!

ratkiss on Feb 15 '09 at 3:35pm

The blog is full of awesome.

blossompossum on Feb 15 '09 at 3:36pm

Rose!!

Well, the last two books I finished were 1984 by George Orwell, and Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer. I'm reading a collection of short stories by Nikolai Gogol right now, and plan on taking out The Outsider by Albert Camus when I'm finished.

Yeah, it's a nice feeling. That's good to hear!

BaronVonMonkey on Feb 15 '09 at 3:41pm

Try and read the Camus definitely - I haven't read Into the Wild, is it good? I just googled it, and the whole 'going to get lost in the arctic wastes' thing sounds quite appealing- not so much the death by starvation though

BaronVonMonkey on Feb 15 '09 at 3:42pm

Oh, and thanks ratkiss!

blossompossum on Feb 15 '09 at 3:48pm

I liked the book. It's basically a study of a young guy who decided to travel rough after leaving college: his motivations, the places he traveled to, the people he met, etc. He left a pretty privileged background behind and didn't leave his family any clues as to where he'd gone. It's an interesting book, for sure.

Jellyes on Feb 15 '09 at 3:49pm

the movie Into the Wild is real good, too.

BaronVonMonkey on Feb 15 '09 at 4:38pm

Sounds interesting, I will definitely check it out

BaronVonMonkey on Feb 15 '09 at 5:58pm

I submitted The Runaway as a tee design, cos I would like it on a shirt

The Runaway - Threadless, Best T-shirts Ever

blossompossum on Feb 15 '09 at 6:08pm

$5'd (or will be in the near future)

BaronVonMonkey on Feb 15 '09 at 6:20pm

Thanks JS!

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BaronVonMonkey on Feb 18 '09 at 5:36pm

I had a coupla days off, but new robot added!

Roostersauce on Feb 18 '09 at 5:38pm

wow, full of awesome

BaronVonMonkey on Feb 18 '09 at 5:43pm

Thanks Rooster!

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BaronVonMonkey on Feb 21 '09 at 2:32pm

Ack, I'm being lax with my robot drawing- I need inspiration!!

blossompossum on Feb 21 '09 at 3:36pm

It seems all your robots are the result of some evil creator living in the desolate depths of the wild or something, so maybe you should place them in a different environment? But then again, that would probably change the robots quite a bit.

Maybe you should tell a story of the mysterious robot race?

BaronVonMonkey on Feb 21 '09 at 3:38pm

Ah, well funny you should say that, I was actually plotting out the story of a whole mysterious robot tribe living on a remote Pacific undiscovered by adventurers...

blossompossum on Feb 21 '09 at 3:42pm

Unfortunately, it appears I was seeing this from the point of view where robots need creators...

blossompossum on Feb 21 '09 at 3:43pm

(that is to say I totally missed the point, haha)

BaronVonMonkey on Feb 21 '09 at 3:45pm

Creationist conspiracy!

blossompossum on Feb 21 '09 at 3:48pm

Well, maybe I was talking about biogenesis as opposed to abiogenesis. Didja think of that? Huh?

This is a very deep robotic existential crisis.

BaronVonMonkey on Feb 21 '09 at 3:49pm

VE ARE ZE ROBOTS (bleep bleep bleep bleep)

blossompossum on Feb 21 '09 at 3:53pm

That was one good album. My dad has original pressings on vinyl.

BaronVonMonkey on Feb 21 '09 at 3:54pm

Your dad is a dude

blossompossum on Feb 21 '09 at 3:58pm

Aye, my dad is not only a dude, but a musically-progressive one. WIN!

On a side note, when you mentioned "remote Pacific", I thought of this tribe of Indians living on Vancouver Island who weren't found until sometime in the last century (or at least this is what I think I read).

BaronVonMonkey on Feb 21 '09 at 4:19pm

I love those kinda stories- it's so nice to think that there are still things that are undiscovered

blossompossum on Feb 21 '09 at 4:30pm

Yeah, it is, especially when the focus nowadays is always on the next bigger, more efficient thing. The Native Indians here haven't been treated all too well, though...

I'm still entertaining the option of becoming an itinerant vagabond for a few years, but I'm not sure how that would work out. Sigh.

(also, sorry for spamming your blog somewhat)

dacat on Feb 21 '09 at 4:31pm

Maybe the story brings in some human who discovers one of them? Or is that too "Iron Giant"-like?

BaronVonMonkey on Feb 21 '09 at 4:54pm

Well the way I was writing it was as a collection of travel memoirs of people who came across the mysterious island over the centuries. Kinda Gulliver's Travels-y

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