It's every child's dream to one day walk through a trio of space robot legs as entering
Silicon Valley, and if a proposed art project goes through, said dream will become a reality for budding tech superstars who land in Mineta San Jose International Airport. The $300,000 initiative would see a so-called Space Observer built and showcased prominently in the venue, allowing patrons to walk underneath its two-story-tall body and emit all sorts of "oohs" and "ahhs." The monolithic
space robot would sport three legs and propeller-tipped kinetic camera arms, the latter of which would collect live video to be displayed on embedded monitors within its body. San Jose Public Art Director Barbara Goldstein has already stated that "it won't follow you anywhere," but it's not like she really has the power to control what this obviously sentient creature
does / doesn't do.
posted Apr 20th 2009 7:08AM
"ahh"
Pointless much? Give me that $300,000. I will buy a year supply of 7-11 Taquitos and Slurpee, pay college tuition, buy a 2009 Mitsubishi Eclipse (my dream car), and buy that Sony Bravia TV I've been eyeing.
dude, a 2009 Mitsubishi Eclipse is your dream car...
maybe you should dream bigger...
IGNORE ME!
hahaha, well played.
Oh, and "won't follow you around"? riiiight
Some California teachers are buying toilet paper for the schools with their own money but they've found money for something that produces nothing. Great!
Perhaps we could compromise and TP this ugly statue?
No one ever accused California of being even the 3rd or 4th sharpest knife in the drawer.
Art in Public Places strikes again - http://www.sanjoseculture.org/?pid=4100
they should finish their current project first
It has two legs, the third appendage is for Miss Lady Space Robot, scheduled to be built in 2015
I am looking forward for boob shot videos from up above. Also I hope they make smaller version for underskirt live video. Oh and ability to transmit data to iPhone via a special app.
WHAAAAT?
Its the miniature version of the alien tripod from War of the Worlds...just white..with a blue lens to tell us everything is just swell.
Is that GLaDOS?
I see you...
Are you still there...?
What a colossal waste of money! Use the money to put some people back to useful work.
So where do the Combine watch this from??
What a waste of money. I can only imagine what better things they could find $300k to spend on here in the city.
I hope this goes over better than the $500,000 statue of Quetzalcoatl at the Plaza de Cesar Chavez in downtown San Jose that resembles a load of dog krap which it has affectionately become known as the PARK GOD.
http://www.sanjose.com/underbelly/unbelly/Sanjose/Quetzy/quetzy.html
I don't think the top of the stairs is a safe place to put a space robot.
San Jose has an airport?
May I present to you the ED-209.1, "Please put down your suitcase, you have 20 seconds to comply."