The Bright Lights Film Journal reviews "Survival Research Laboratories: 10 Years of Robotic Mayhem," a documentary chronicling the first ten years of the pioneering machine art/performance group founded by Mark Pauline in 1978. SRL is an ad-hoc collective of brilliant engineers, including former BB guest blogger Karen Marcelo, who stage mind-blowing mechanized spectacles where "humans are present only as audience or operators." Check out the Bright Lights Film Journal article here.
Boing Boing offers our congratulations to dear friends Mark and Amy on the birth this week of Jake Edward Pauline, a feat of biomechanical engineering. Link
