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Preface: While most of the people involved were goons, this was not a goon meet. The idea was raised at a goon meet to stage a Robot Protest. What would they be protesting? Who knows? They’re robots, it doesn’t have to make sense. That was two months ago. After three weeks of serious planning and hours upon hours of making costumes and signs, the day came. If you’re not from Madison, Library Mall is the hub of campus activity. The Union is there along with all the food carts. Plus the Teaching Assistants are out on strike so they were picketing today. We had 11 costumes; 10 “normal” ones and one massive “serverbot” which was about 7 feet high. The goons in attendance (and forgive me if I miss someone) were myself, *is not edible*, racer j, NukeleR, b33fyr33t, interknot, warwick5s, Zhentar, and the_ruiner along with some random friends/colleagues. We ended up having one extra costume which we drug along with us and wrote “Spare Parts” on. We also took NukeleR’s boombox and pumped Kraftwerk through it as loud as possible before the batteries died. We had three signs, all hand done by myself which were random 1s and 0s and said nothing. We also had 120 half-page flyers which were just binary. The night before we faxed this to both papers:  It was an amazing day. No clouds, 70 degrees, and a little windy so everyone was out. I’ve never seen the Union Terrace so packed. We set up and walked down State St. and onto Library Mall. Enter the pictures.  Here’s us first hitting Library Mall. That is Memorial Library behind us.  Here’s some guy who was wearing one of the “L33T LIKE JEFF K.” shirts from a bygone age. I have no idea who he is or where he came from.  We’re now in the rotunda between the Historical Center and Memorial Library. All Campus Party was going on so we were asked to leave. Without complaint, we left. You can see the serverbot well here and racer j tending to its needs.  We’ve now relocated to the area just off of where the TAA has set up its strike headquarters. The large building behind us is the Humanities building where the TAA was actually picketing. We moved there shortly after.  A robot has lost an eye! An eye patch was quickly drawn on to protect the illusion!  Oh Spare Parts robot, you’re a weight around our necks.  A robot gets feisty!  Even though the children love robots, robots don’t like children.  At this point we’ve moved directly in front of the TAA picket line. This picture just cracks me up.  That’s me on top of the concrete thing dancing to Kraftwerk.  Good shot of several things, especially my hot hot sign job.  It’s 1:30 PM and we’re heading to the Terrace for refreshments.  Nothing needs to be said about this picture.  Nor this one.  Or this one.  b33fy just pulled this off a Livejournal. After the terrace we walked back through the rotunda. We ran into Bucky and surrounded him. It was really neat if only because he played along with it.  Us heading home after a long day. Cars are honking as we are really close to holding up traffic.  This is just a really good picture. Here are some random pictures: Robots mulling around. Mulling, mulling, mulling. " , " , " God bless spring. Pretty good shot of Angrybot whose only job was to protect the Serverbot. Unfortunately his eyes fell off quite early on. Someone from the Daily Cardinal asked for an interview. We sent him a fax about how “we can’t give you a full interview as our spokesbot has powered down for the evening.” The full text will be posted tomorrow. More pictures to come and at some point we’re going to have the two hours of video that was shot edited down. This has already been posted on some Madisonite’s Livejournal: quote:so, there were a bunch of people in robot suits walking around on campus today. they had picket signs, much like almost everyone else today, and were handing out pamphlets, much like the ones being handed out by everyone else being all activist and such. except, these robots were listening to something resembling kraftwerk through a chinsey boombox, and their picket signs and pamphlets were in binary. being the civil minded person i am (robots have rights, too!), i went to the computer lab and took the 5 minutes to translate the binary on the pamphlets. it said: edit: VIDEO VIDEO VIDEO quote:b33fyr33t came out of the closet to say: edit post goldmine: removed a mirror Avatar fucked around with this message at 18:12 on May 7, 2004 |
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quote:thepartypooper came out of the closet to say:
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quote:Liface came out of the closet to say: This is the one that I used for the flyers. quote:Ditch came out of the closet to say: Avatar fucked around with this message at 05:13 on Apr 29, 2004 |
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quote:*is not edible* came out of the closet to say: The Terrace was beyond words. I've never seen so many people just stop whatever they were doing and just stare at us. A few people even started cheering. I destinctly remember "GO ROBOTS GO!" It was a girl too :cool:
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b33fy just pulled this off a Livejournal. After the terrace we walked back through the rotunda. We ran into Bucky and surrounded him. It was really neat if only because he played along with it.
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quote:racer j came out of the closet to say: quote:*is not edible* came out of the closet to say: edit: WOOO! A new avatar!! hehehehehe Avatar fucked around with this message at 01:59 on Apr 30, 2004 |
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quote:Myrddin Emrys came out of the closet to say: HUGE props for the video b33fy! Avatar fucked around with this message at 09:17 on Apr 30, 2004 |
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quote:frumpykvetchbot came out of the closet to say: I don't have a big version of that. That was sent to me by someone. I don't remember who.
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