Robert Burden's Voltron timelapse painting

Here is an incredible time-lapse video of Robert Burden painting Voltron. (Thanks, Kirsten Anderson!)

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shmengie

i’m so proud of robert. i remember when i taught him how to do that.
Tweeker

Damnit, I wanted to hear some Voltron music with that.
jonesp12

i imagine that this is exactly like how the wu-tang clan formed.
Slizzered

That heavy sigh right at the beginning of the film, when the canvas is still blank? As a pointillist who sometimes spends up to a year on a big canvas, man can I ever relate. Reminds me that I gotta quit foolin’ around on the computer and get back to work…
EH

I thought for sure the “One Year Later” was gonna be the painting falling over the ladder or something!
Rossifumi

Can I say fucking awesome? Will they bleep that?
hardyandtiny

a ladder?
David Pescovitz

Fuck no. ; )
Anonymous

This reminds me of another video in the robot-art-object time lapse category: Michael Salter installing one of his gigantic Styrofoam robots.

Link: http://vimeo.com/2196225
mdh

Apropos yet ahead of it’s time from GYWO

Voltron should count as a unicorn chaser, isn’t one of his sub-robots a unicorn?
Michael Slater

What was the background music score?
License Farm

@JonesP12: Close.

If I had 11′ ceilings in my pad I’d be buying this NOW. Maybe I ought to finally bite the bullet and open the Church of Voltron that I’ve been holding services for inside my skull’s tabernacle for the past 24 years.
Anonymous

MDH – That was the second season of Power Rangers. The blue one, I believe.
Teresa Nielsen Hayden / Moderator

Beautiful. I loved seeing the construction of the background patterns before they got overpainted in blue, and the close-up detail shots near the end.
Evil Jim

Looks like a pinball table.