Cardboard Robot's Big City Adventure

[jboking]

Wow that is a great story. Heart warming even. For some odd reason this reminds me of '"Sheep in the Big City."

This has totaly rebuilt my faith in humanity. Who cares about every war in history. At least New Yorkers can find the kindness in their hearts to get a little robot from point A to point B. And I'm only being slightly sarcastic.

The parts in bold are where the sarcasm lies.

 

[ThaBenMan]

Awesome. It'd be interesting to see this taken in different directions - like maybe put a little box and sign on it asking for donations or something. What kind of monster would steal parts money from that cute lil bot?

 

[The Shade]

Duly noted: If I'm ever in New York and I need directions, I'll just tape my destination on my back and smile like an idiot. Surely someone will come along and turn me in the right direction...right?

 

[Reaperman Wompa]

That's cool and nice, cute little robot making it with the help of strangers, you really wouldn't expect anyone to help, but there you go.

 

[Nova Tendril]

How do we know that the "art student" was in charge? Maybe the robots were really pulling the human's strings. They're smart like that.

Of course. It's scouting New York City in preparation for the cardboard uprising.

 

[Souplex]

The whole New Yorkers are jerks cliche' is a lie brought on by those filthy San Franciscans.

 

[Disembodied_Dave]

The whole New Yorkers are jerks cliche' is a lie brought on by those filthy San Franciscans.

The only good thing you can say about people from there is that they're not from England.

 

[runedeadthA]

Nice work New York, I guess not all Americans are bad after all ( ;p )

You have gained assurance in humanity for helping a small cardboard robot!

This is actually quite nice that people helped the lil' guy get to his destination. Sadly, nobody there would do it for another human being..
BTW, that robot is now my new avi.

BTW Nice Avatar

 

[Taawus]

Must post this:
http://loadingreadyrun.com/videos/view/323/First-Draft-Iron-Man-Trailer
Initiate the next stage of cardboard robots !

 

[bkd69]

Very clever. She now has a photographic record of likely collaborators, come the robot uprising.

 

[Danny Ocean]

In New York, we are very occupied with getting from one place to another. I wondered: could a human-like object traverse sidewalks and streets along with us, and in so doing, create a narrative about our relationship to space and our willingness to interact with what we find in it? More importantly, how could our actions be seen within a larger context of human connection that emerges from the complexity of the city itself? To answer these questions, I built robots.

Buh?

 

[RetiarySword]

I WANT ONE!

 

[I III II X4]

Duly noted: If I'm ever in New York and I need directions, I'll just tape my destination on my back and smile like an idiot. Surely someone will come along and turn me in the right direction...right?

That, children, is how people whind up "lost".

I find it incredible that nothing bad happened to these machines, no vandalism, no blatant acts of destruction enacted against them...

Anyway, as Nightmare once put it... "How?!"

 

[skribb]

All I can say is; I will never, ever understand "art".

 

[SenseOfTumour]

Yes, its a damn shame that I think tried in my local area, it'd meet its first chav and either be set fire to and kicked thru an old woman's window, or stolen and fenced at the nearest pawn shop for cider money.

However, in a busy area, I like to think there'd be a certain peer pressure to not destroy it.

As a Brit I've always thought of New York in general as a fairly nice friendly place, tho I've never been there.

Would it be too much to ask that it's installed with lasers, and when attacked, simply slices a beam just above the overpriced trainers of the idiot trying to harm it?

As this is all quite negative, I have to say, it was really pleasing to read this and I'll pass the tale on without my clouds attached!

 

[KDR_11k]

Nice, I would have expected passerbys to dive for cover and the police to investigate this as terrorism. You know, like glowing signs attached to lamp posts.

 

[Asehujiko]

To answer these questions, I built robots.

When quoted of of context, this makes an awesome line.

 

[Singularly Datarific]

Aaawwwwww...
I wish people were treated this nicely.
Try it again, but set it on fire beforehand!

 

[Kuliani]

Aaawwwwww...
I wish people were treated this nicely.
Try it again, but set it on fire beforehand!

Well, they also made the robot small, cute, and put it in a park/relaxing non-Wall Street area. Thus, the people that interacted with it were more willing to help due to it not being seen as disgusting, ugly, or unapproachable, which is a large part of why normal humans aren't helping in the same way.