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By: Viviane Schwarz,
on 11/7/2014
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The Robot Workshop was a big success, despite my terrible Franglais. I had very good assistants.
I doodled a lot to distract myself from all the socialising. Socialising at Festivals is hard. These are doodles on demand, just people telling me what to draw so they can laugh at how fast it happens.
We went to the beach looking for treasure.
There was a panel talk. It was brief, so I didn't bring up the one thing that bothered me: how come that half the children in my workshop were girls, many of the organisers were women, there were girls and women all over the festival, taking part... but when I looked through the books on display, pretty much all of them were about men having adventures. Strange.
Otherwise, I absolutely loved the whole event. You wouldn't believe the amount of tasty food we were fed constantly. Look, there even was bacon at the panel talk.
I came back early in the morning of my birthday and fell asleep in a nest of balloons. Yay!
By: Viviane Schwarz,
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By: Viviane Schwarz,
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By: Viviane Schwarz,
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By the way, if you do buy the book (and it can be ordered from bookshops now, or even directly from Flying Eye) and make an Awesome Robot, please send me pictures, it will make me extremely happy and also we'll stick them on the Awesome Robot Tumblr (coming soon)!
By: Viviane Schwarz,
on 2/19/2013
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My favourite moment is not on this video: at some point these two robots suddenly turned to one another and bumped together with their arms flailing out the sides in a very small robot battle. Or maybe a hug. The amazing thing was that because of the shape of their heads and bodies they interlocked exactly.
By: Viviane Schwarz,
on 2/17/2013
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By: Viviane Schwarz,
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I was invited to Una Volta, the comics festival at Bastia, Corsica, to run a cardboard robot workshop and meet French comic artists. It was great! I met some lovely, brilliant people. Check the link to see who they were - I'll just forget someone if I list them here. They were all great. The work was amazing. I felt honoured to be there, and I laughed my head off because everyone was hilarious. I especially enjoyed making use of some echoing dungeons under the Citadel where the exhibition was held, singing quite dreadfully in harmony.
I was very proud to see my drawings from "Cheese Belongs to You" and "Sleepwalkers" framed up, I've never exhibited pencil drawings before.
The Robot Workshop was a big success, despite my terrible Franglais. I had very good assistants.
I doodled a lot to distract myself from all the socialising. Socialising at Festivals is hard. These are doodles on demand, just people telling me what to draw so they can laugh at how fast it happens.
And some doodles just for my own enjoyment.
We went to the beach looking for treasure.
There was a panel talk. It was brief, so I didn't bring up the one thing that bothered me: how come that half the children in my workshop were girls, many of the organisers were women, there were girls and women all over the festival, taking part... but when I looked through the books on display, pretty much all of them were about men having adventures. Strange.
Otherwise, I absolutely loved the whole event. You wouldn't believe the amount of tasty food we were fed constantly. Look, there even was bacon at the panel talk.
Hello Bacon.
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By: Viviane Schwarz,
on 2/27/2014
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Look at this!
Robots in Spain!
ESTUPENDO!
In other news, I have been downgrading my personal stereo.
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By: Viviane Schwarz,
on 9/7/2013
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I ran a workshop in Helsinki at the Comics festival, and I had no camera, so I only have these photos that the mother of this awesome robot sent me. LOOK AT THE DETACHABLE POWER PACK also feathers
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By: Viviane Schwarz,
on 3/9/2013
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Cory Doctorow of Boing Boing wrote a great review of "Welcome To Your Awesome Robot".
He calls it a "fantastic book for maker-kids and their grownups".
Boing Boing is where I go to discover wonderful things myself, so this makes me very happy.
Also my mother just sent me a message that she got the book and liked it because it reminded her of my childhood. That's good, too.
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By: Viviane Schwarz,
on 3/7/2013
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The latest edition of the AOI's VAROOM! magazine has this spread about "Welcome to Your Arwesome Robot", with a review, a short interview and some pages from the book, including a list of useful workshop rules for children and their adults.
If you wonder why the headline is AWKWARD, that relates to the style I chose for the book to make it look more achievable to build your own robot. I like saying "Awkward", it's one of my favourite words. I think it sounds like an Aardvark doing Woodwork.
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By: Viviane Schwarz,
on 2/23/2013
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Creative Review posted a lovely introduction to Flying Eye Books, the new NoBrow Children's book imprint - including a bunch of pictures from "Welcome To Your Awesome Robot".
Go have a look!
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By: Viviane Schwarz,
on 2/19/2013
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Here's a tiny video clip from the workshop we had to launch "Welcome To Your Awesome Robot" at the Imagine Festival.
Twenty robots were made within an hour, and these two led the celebratory robot parade.
I take no credit whatsoever, all I did was give the families a load of materials and say MAKE ROBOTS NOW! I figured they'd know what to do. Which was correct.
The plaque on the side of the left one says "STAND BACK THIS IS A DANCING ROBOT" and the other one I think might have a plaque on the back that says "INTERPLANETARY EXPLORATION VEHICLE". Both plaques from the book.
My favourite moment is not on this video: at some point these two robots suddenly turned to one another and bumped together with their arms flailing out the sides in a very small robot battle. Or maybe a hug. The amazing thing was that because of the shape of their heads and bodies they interlocked exactly.
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By: Viviane Schwarz,
on 2/17/2013
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IT'S OUT!
GO BUY THIS BOOK AND MAKE AN AWESOME ROBOT TODAY!
WELCOME TO YOUR AWESOME ROBOT
published by Flying Eye Books.
Robot not included. SO WHAT? MAKE ONE!
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They need their own spin off!