Recently, RoboSteel completed a project for a client in Heidelberg Germany.  Our customer had a very short but interesting project brief for the RoboSteel team. “Decorate my ultramodern home”

Located on the side of a very steep hill this amazing ultramodern house spans multiple levels and is constructed with state of the art building materials.  The house provided RoboSteel with an amazing opportunity to place some of our recycled steel sculptures in a perfect setting.

The 2.1 meter Predator took up his majestic position at the top of one of the two staircases that lead to the living room.

The 2 meter Alien Queen was carefully placed at the top of a spiral staircase.

The 2.2 meter Alien king took pride of place in the corner just beside the television.

And if you have doubt about the size of this house all three sculptures are basically in the same L shaped same room.

RoboSteel are based in Ireland but can deliver and personally setup (if required) our recycled steel sculptures anywhere in the world. At RoboSteel anything you can imagine is real!

The Carole Nash International Motorcycle and Scooter Show and The Red Adventure recently provided RoboSteel with a fantastic opportunity to create an Eco-minded life size MotorCycle Man sculpture.  They provided the concept and asked RoboSteeel to build a man based on their imagery of a man created from recycled motorcycle parts.

The motorcycle man is a perfect example of recycling in a digital age.  The original concept art was provided by the talented illustrator and graphic design artist Simon Roberts from The Red Adventure who used Adobe to create the original digital image.    Simon began by making pencil sketches, using photos of figures and anatomical drawings for reference.  Once the posture had been finalised, he began to piece the Motorcycle Man together, painstakingly resizing, distorting, positioning, and repositioning photos of bike parts, before carefully blending them to create the final mechanical man masterpiece.  When RoboSteel finally meet up with Simon it quickly became apparent that he had created the original graphic in his own image and the metal sculpture looked very much like him.

Building the Man:

The RoboSteel MotorCycleMan AKA RoboMan is made entirely from recycled motorcycle parts and took over 750 hours to construct.  Standing at 2 metres tall this one off sculpture has well over a thousand motorcycle parts creatively hidden.  If you look closely you will be able to see parts from many motorcycle manufacturers, including Suzuki, Yamaha, Honda and many others.

Tony Todd (AKA the fallen from the movie Transformers 2) is a big fan of RoboSteel and dropped by to see the sculpture in person.

The inspiration behind RoboSteel

Picasso’s sculpture of the bicycle saddle and a handlebar was the first example of a work made from everyday things, using junk or scrap. Like other of Picasso’s firsts this work opened up new possibilities for artists. In this instance – sculptors, who for centuries had employed traditional materials such as stone or wood now instead, many of them began to incorporate junk materials into their work (known as assemblages) or fashion new objects from them. The works are a great example of the inventive genius of Picasso and the ultimate inspiration for RoboSteel.

RoboSteel are based in Ireland and have completed commissions for corporate clients including Google, Activision, Jolt Online Gaming and many other private clients around the world.  You can visit them at www.robosteel.com or follow them on Twitter @RoboSteel

It was Thomas Edison who first said “To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.   RoboSteel’S mission is to create both simple and complex steel sculptures from recycled materials. At RoboSteel anything you can imagine is real.

Sending a 2.4 meter 650kg Alien in the post takes a lot preparation.  Especially when the final destination is on another continent.  This is how we recently shipped a large Alien to Trinidad from Dublin in Ireland.

Firstly the Alien is put to sleep by a massive dose of medication.  This gives us time to take him apart and also makes the journey easy on the creature.

The Alien pieces are then carefully packed inside the crate…………..

The reinforced crate is then fixed all around the beast

Finally the shipment is ready and everything is sealed inside the large wooden crate.  All that is left is the address and a call to the brave postman to come and collect the shipment for delivery.

RoboSteel gets a lot of photos from clients who have bought sculptures. Tony from Scotland recently sent us this photo of The RoboSteel Lion aka “Thunder” looking very majestic and perhaps a little cold in his garden. Thanks Tony!

Everybody at RoboSteel is really looking forward to Christmas and we have some very cool projects planned for the New Year. It has been an amazing year for us and we have really enjoyed all the people we have meet at various exhibitions and events across Ireland and the UK.

Wishing all our customers, friends and family a very happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year.

Be safe this Christmas and don’t forget to recycle, it is one of the best gifts we can give to our planet and future generations.

The Carole Nash International Motorcycle and Scooter Show have provided RoboSteel with a fantastic opportunity to create a life size MotorCycleMan.  They provided us with the concept and asked us to build the man based on their 2009 show imagery.

The RoboSteel MotorCycleMan AKA RoboMan is made entirely from recycled motorcycle parts and took over 750 hours to construct.   To make the whole idea even more interesting the kind folks at MCI Exhibitions Ltd who run the NEC bike show have decided to offer the sculpture as a prize.

Standing at nearly 2 metres tall this one off sculpture has well over a thousand motorcycle parts creatively hidden.  If you look closely you will be able to see parts from many motorcycle manufacturers, including Suzuki, Yamaha and many others.

The MotorCycleMan will be on show at the RoboSteel stand 2G10 in Hall 2 at the NEC Motorcycle show 27^th November to the 6^th of December 2009.

Building the Man:

The Carole Nash International Motorcycle and Scooter Show 2009

Carole Nash, the UK’s biggest motorcycle insurance specialists are the main sponsor of the UK’s largest motorcycling event, the International Motorcycle and Scooter Show. This show is set  to be the most enthralling Bike Show ever staged  and will feature the largest collection of 2009 and many 2010 motorcycle models under one roof along with a host of adrenalin fuelled interactive features.

MPH The Prestige & Performance Motor Show

Luxury and style are some of the key ingredients of the MPH Prestige & Performance Motor Show, where the world’s most exclusive marques are on show. Koenigsegg, Spyker, Lotus, Pagani, Lamborghini, Gumpert, Ferrari, Bentley, Rolls Royce, Caparo, Mercedes McLaren, Porsche, Mercedes and Aston Martin sit side by side in the MPH Gallery, while exhibitors in the Motoring Pavilion offer the latest gadgets, motoring gifts and accessories. There will be over 1 billion pounds sterling worth of cars at the show. Visitors can see, get close to, and sit in the world’s most desirable cars in the MPH Prestige and Performance Motor Show exhibition NO ROPES around the cars!

Top Gear Live

Bursting at the oily seams with Top Gear’s trademark smashes, crashes and customised cars, this all new show features the fastest cars in the universe being pushed to their mechanical limits, acrobats laying their lives on the line and some middle aged men overexerting themselves before erupting into flames for no apparent reason. Clarkson, Hammond, May and The Stig return with more motoring related mayhem, and following some hastily scribbled diagrams on a napkin, we understand they’ve even gone as far as to commission a stunt of such spectacular proportions it promises to be a world first… And possibly last.

With the infamous STIG orchestrating a troop of international stunt drivers via a system of whistles and clicks, the Top Gear Live show will continue to define motoring theatre in 2009, and shouldn’t be missed!

Come along and check out RoboSteel, we will be on tour with The Top Gear and MPH motor show at the follow dates and venues:

London (5-8 Nov) Stand MP17 at Earls Court  and Birmingham (12-15 Nov) Stand 101 at the NEC.

Whichever venue you attend, you are guaranteed to enjoy yourself. There’s something for all car enthusiasts, no matter what you’re into.

RoboSteel will have a number of amazing competitions coming up in November (details to be announced shortly) so keep checking our blog for information on how to win some amazing prizes. You can also follow us on Twitter @robosteel

To book tickets and to find out more information on both the venues got to the MPH Show website here or phone: 0871 230 5588

The British International Comic Show AKA BICS takes place next weekend 3^rd and 4^th October 2009. BICS is the UK’s largest comics convention.

This will be the first year that RoboSteel has attended the event and we will be bringing along some amazing sculptures so make sure and bring you camera!

There will be loads of interesting people to meet including Japanese manga artist Michiru Morikawa, renowned Marvel artist Pasqual Ferry and Paul Cornell from DoctorWho and Captain Britain fame.  The show will be held in the amazing Think Thank venue in Birmingham and the onsite IMAX theatre will be showing special screenings of this year’s hit move Watchmen.  Don’t miss your last chance to see Watchmen on the massive IMAX Screen.

To find out more about BICS and get a full listing of those attending and the events taking place over the weekend please visit: http://www.thecomicsshow.co.uk

How to get there:

Now in its 4th year, Culture Night 2009 will be the biggest and best yet with museums, cathedrals, galleries, theatres, artist studios and other cultural venues opening late, many until midnight,  welcoming visitors of all ages in for a taste of free culture for one night.

In 2008, Culture Night was an overwhelming success with over 100,000 attending the events in Dublin and this year the organisers hope to exceed that number.  There will be over 120 cultural venues open to the general public including Christ Church Cathedral, the National Museum of Ireland, the Science Gallery Trinity College, The Guinness Storehouse, the Light House Cinema, The Ark, A Cultural Centre for Children, the Chester Beatty Library Dublin Castle and much more.

Outdoor Events

Dublin Culture Night 2009 will feature a full and exciting programme of outdoor events taking place across the streets and public spaces of the city. From multicultural events, street theatre shows and walkabout characters, to amazing installations and light and film projections. You can come along and visit RoboSteel at the Designer Mart Cow’s Lane, Old City, Temple Bar, Dublin 8, from 5pm – 9pm.  RoboSteel will have some amazing sculptures on view to the public and if you have time check out the CHQ center down the Dublin docklands (IFSC) where RoboSteel have a 2.4 meter Alien and 2 meter Terminator sculpture on show for a limited time.

Culture Night and its programme of events are a very important event providing people with an occasion to discover and enjoy the rich cultural offering of Ireland’s top cultural venues at night.

The full programme of events and participating venues for Culture Night 2009 can be found on www.culturenight.ie you can also call the Temple Bar Cultural Trust on 01 888 3610 for more information.

Download a map of the event

www.culturenight.ie/docs/map2009.pdf

The motorcycle man is now starting to come together, the basic shape of the head was completed this morning.  This sculpture has been commissioned by the Carole Nash International Motorcycle and Scooter Show and will be on show at the NEC Birmingham 27th November until 6th December 2009

Here are the latest progress pictures of this amazing sculpture:

www.motorcycleshow.co.uk