6/15/06

After years of posting my art on Deviantart I have long been watching the online art scene and hungered for my own sketch blog. Believe it or not the only reason that I have waited this long to get the damn thing is because I couldn't think of a good name.

I went through dozens of name ideas but I settled on this one because it kinda of expresses what i'm going for. I like older ideas and sensibilities while using new mediums. Obviously if you are using the internet well enough to find this blog you have an inkling of what the word digital means but if you don't know what Automata is I'll share.

Automata

1.Any toy or decorative item that has movable parts which are usually powered by a clockwork mechanism is known as an automaton.
(This goes back to how much I love penny arcade machines with tiny moving figures like "the drunkards dream" or "the spanish inquisition")

2. Noted in the 3rd century but popluarized with the automated birds in a cage and has now come to mean toys with a clockwork mechanism including japanese wind-up toys and cars. Many copies of these popular toys have now been produced.
(Tons of these exsisted in the victorian age and man are they cool)

3. a self-operating machine

The word also refers to the sci-fi scene of the 1950's. The Automaton was a popular word describing the clunky strangly designed robots that decorated the covers of space comic books and terrorized beautiful blond women in sci fi films. Another reason the word clearly rocks.

So that explained I plan to post here everyday. Hope someone eventually comes to look.