Classic Daft Punk with Robot Rock.  Annoying as all hell, but so perfectly repetitive that you’re quickly hypnotised into loving the song regardless.  Hear it play by pressing here to start a video clip playing in a new window.

I tried to think of robots really having a good time.  Dancing around… and volcanoes came to mind immediately.  Any robot party would definitely have volcanoes!  So my scenery starts with that.  Next, since robots by their nature are always working in such a repetitive way, I decided that stamping cut-outs of dancing robots would be one way a young robot would be able to express rock.  I would like to think they would actually be dancing as well… but that would assume some sort of freedom. 

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Moving on from that, isn’t a bit sad that robots could well develop to have a mind of sorts.  With a mind, one can be thoughtful.  But I wondered if that would automatically mean they would have a soul.  ie:  Do you need a mind in order to have a soul?  I’m not going to get into what’s all about souls, but it’s an interesting thought.  So let’s say they don’t… have a soul that is.  And so I’ve put some words in there to the effect of “When the dancing robots realised they had a mind but no soul, they said… Help… Help… Help…     and     oh    fuck”.  (I was about to ask someone if I can swear on here… but there’s no one to ask!)  Yes,  I know it’s moving away from the song, but Daft Punk don’t exactly give me many lyrics to work with here!

Taking that a step further I wanted to point to the inevitable dead end a robot mind faces.  Where there is no further experience they can get to in order to get past their limitations.  It’s the frustration of that I was trying to get in the end.  I’m probably not being precise in how the picture works, so frustration probably takes the form of confusion, being what the coloured bars are suppose to be.  Hmmm.. Well I like how it looks and I’m sure you get the gist anyway.

The coloured bars are actually taken right from Sir Sidney Nolan who’s retrospective I recent saw at the NSW Art Gallery much more variety to the bloke than you would assume.  I had a theory for when he used them (coloured bars), but now I can’t remember what it was??  Did he actually give a reason for the coloured bars? anyone??

So there you go… and why not join the one person so far to make a bid on one of these pictures listed here on eBay.  It didn’t sell - not even for a dollar!! Well that’s a bit of a slap in the face.  So it’s here if anyone wants it?  Send me a few dollars and it’s yours!

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