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An interesting event happening in Danmark, at Odense - Robots at play from 23 to 25 August.

The lawn mower that mowes the lawn completely by itself. The therapeutic robotic teddy bear “Huggable”. The toy robot that provokes children to move around. Or the robot that very precisely selects the blood veins best suited for blood testing.

Many of the robotic systems that we think belong to the future have already been realized and can be seen during the Robot Festival in Odense where many fascinating robots will be on display. Both the entertaining ones and the hard working ones. And from many countries. The overall aim of the festival is to spread knowledge about robotics and we look forward to seeing you at this inspiring and fascinating festival where you can enjoy events like robot construction, film presentations, play, learning, a stage show, a conference and a debate on ethics.

Come and join in – and give way to your fascination with robots.

If anyone should attend please leave a comment.
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Daniel Lee is a guy that inspired me a while ago. I am very interested in color processing on digital images, and even though my work is not related to DTP and print, I almost always correct images I have to use on different multimedia presentations so that they have the proper color ratio.

I can say I’m almost obssesed with that. I don’t like cyan in my reds and yellows, nor magenta in my greens that’s me…. color addict, what can I say?!

So at some point, working so much on portait photos adjusting faces … i thought why not reinterpret myself? The result is somewhat strange… i can see it’s still me, but blue eyed? bonde? it’s soooo weird…

I’ve known about Lee’s work especially the one commissioned for Ars Electronica 2005… but looking on some other of his interpretations on portraits …. true art interpretation, the feeling is more accute … strange indeed.

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I first noticed Daniel Rozin when I was searching for a MFA in interactive art at NYU, ITP. [ Got into the program, but didn’t get the scholarship (another story, let’s get back)] … and I saw one of his artworks - Wooden Mirror. It absolutely amazed me at that point. I was at the moment into perception and replicas of eye perception, but his idea of making something digital out of purely analogical stuff … pfeeew!!!!

I’ve seen another mirror of his - Trash Mirror at Ars Electronica in 2005.

Now I see he has pursued this idea of mirroring through all sorts of unorthodox materials so I reckon his series are truly amazing. Enjoy!