@1:46 he says how it all started with this Art project for Burning Man. I saw the Mondo Spider there a couple times

Is this a traditional joint or an art project? I have never seen it.

Beautiful execution.

level 2 societal critique via a high school level art project goes viral

Yup; here is the Live Science take---in brief--it's a conceptual artist's thing (Vitaly Bulgarov) who has faked a website and even the Korea development company...

"New video clips purporting to show a 13-foot-tall (4 meters) humanoid robot piloted by a person in its torso look like something straight out of "Avatar" or "Transformers," but a Live Science investigation has revealed reasons to believe some skepticism might be in order.

The robot clips have been picked up by a variety of online news and technology outlets, including Kotaku and Wired UK. But the South Korean company that is supposedly developing the robot has virtually no online presence and was unfamiliar to robotics researchers contacted by Live Science.

Furthermore, the only source for the videos or any information about them is the Facebook and Instagram pages of a designer whose website mentions a conceptual art project about a "fictional robotics corporation that develops its products in a not-so-distant future."

The designer, Vitaly Bulgarov, told Live Science that the robot is real. However, he declined to share the names of scientists or engineers working on the project, and messages to the purported CEO of the company went unreturned. [Gallery: See Images of the Giant Humanoid Robot]

Mystery business

According to Bulgarov's Facebook page, the videos were taken in South Korea at a company called Korea Future Technology. Almost all references to this company online appear to be associated with Bulgarov's posts and the subsequent news pieces on the robot. Bulgarov said the company has been operating for several years."

""Robots are messy business," said Christian Hubicki, a postdoctoral robotics researcher at Georgia Tech who worked on the DURUS robot. "They get torn apart and put back together over and over, and transmission grease gets all over the place. Even the nice white floor is beautifully unscuffed [in these videos]. Never once during likely hundreds of hours of debugging the giant robot did it kick in a way that scratched it up?"

The people around the robot also appear to be too close for safety and are not following the standard practice of wearing safety goggles, Hubicki said.

Bulgarov said the company's CEO required that the lab be clean, and that the videos had been brightened in postproduction. Fearing said robotics labs in Asia can be relatively neat.

However, there's another problem: Hubicki told Live Science that the robot's leg joints look unusually smooth given the force that the step of a 1.5-ton robot would exert on the motors. [5 Reasons to Fear Robots]"

http://www.livescience.com/57296-giant-humanoid-robot-video-hoax.html

Seems like one of those "art projects" that is basically one guy getting his jollies by telling women it's an "art project"...

Upvoted though, I do loves me some amateur pr0n.

ps. I'm one of those "don't know art but I know what I like" types, and this doesn't strike me as art as much as titillating. I'm sure someone more educated could talk about juxtaposition etc but I'm struggling to get a handle on whatever message is lurking in there.

Welcome to planet lantern, where 116b/5m = 223k

For the rest of us, who live in the real world, 116b/5m = 23k or about half the debt of the average U.S. citizen.

Your country is like a child's art project... a very simple view of the world that is frequently wrong.

Burning Man zoetropes (very cool art installations) has been added as a related post - related requested by eric3579.

Phonographantasmascope -- coolest art project of the year has been added as a related post - related requested by eric3579.

Tim Burton Themed Zoetrope Cake. has been added as a related post - related requested by eric3579.

In a few years time, self driving cars will make the most amazing car art projects possible.

Changed it back to my original title (as seen by the url) as the title has kinda derailed the comments and what the video is actually about.
http://videosift.com/video/Street-Harassment-Of-Women-In-New-York-An-Art-Project

*promote for the video, not so much the comments which have veered off course. The title of the video could be "Stop Harassing Women." Telling someone to smile, when she doesn't want to smile, right after you've hit on her, when she doesn't want you to hit on her, is harassment. No one deserves to be treated like that and this video and art project are meant to raise awareness for the issue. Just listen to Tatyana's opening statement.

*equality

On a side note, how cool is it that she's has some Vibes in her apartment?

The links in the description of this video are not showing up as hyperlinks. Did I do something wrong? http://videosift.com/video/Street-Harassment-Of-Women-In-New-York-An-Art-Project

One from New Orleans, about an urban art project in a building that was about to be demolished.

http://videosift.com/video/Rosenwalds-Dying-Days

Back in school, we had an art project that used burned match sticks, so we had to burn 'em. Strike, extinguish. Strike, extinguish. That sure seemed inefficient, so I got the bright idea to just take a handful of matches--as many as I could hold--and strike them all at once.

I was right about one thing: it was more efficient.

>> ^GenjiKilpatrick:

@spoco2
You never got hugged as a child. Did you?


Why do you have a problem with me pointing out that this is 99% sure to be a 'hoax'? It's being reported everywhere as real (although a number are saying the video has the whiff of fake about it), and it irks me how readily people fall for things online.

If this were being shown as 'Hey, look at this cool art project' or 'Look at this thing that a guy built in his shed, isn't it awesome? Doesn't really 'do' much, but it's cool' then it'd be a cool video.

But it's being reported everywhere as a REAL robot suit you can really order for 1.3 Million and it'll really do what the video promises.

Would you prefer I just say 'AWESOME! TAKE MY MONEY! I WANT ONE! GIMME! I FOR ONE WELCOME OUR NEW ROBOT OVERLORDS!'?

>> ^GenjiKilpatrick:

http://technabob.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/kuratas_robot.jpg
You were saying.. Mr. Buzz Killington?
>> ^spoco2:
No-one else sees this for the joke that it is?
No one?
No one notices that it's CG when driving through the streets or find the smile shot to be odd... and the crash position part of the video?
No?
We're just going to think it's real then.
Ok, fine, I have a bridge I'd like to sell you, looks like a giant coat hanger.



Yeah? What? I get that they've made a full size 'thing' that moves and such, but there's no way this is a real product with a real 'Robot OS' and a real 'Smile Shot' shooting system. And those videos of it driving in the streets were CGI.

It's just a big 'art' project or something, not a real, for sale useful robot.