Help underwrite Kal Spelletich's robot art show

We've posted on BB before about San Francisco machine artist Kal Spelletich, who has made dozens of elegant, menacing, and incredible robots and kinetic sculptures over several decades. Kal is a veteran of Survival Research Laboratories, Seemen, and a former artist-in-residence at the Exploratorium. He's managed to secure a gallery show in New York City on August 6, 2010. The rub is that he can't afford to finish the new pieces and, even more challenging and expensive, ship all this heavy metal and sensitive electronics, and himself, across the country. And back. So he's hoping to raise $3,000 via Kickstarter. If you donate $1,000, you even get a tabletop kinetic version of the giant tree robot (robot tree?) that will be the centerpiece of the show. Kal Spelletich: Cosmicism & Contemporary Forestry

• [Art]

  My advice:

  Do not ship your work, if you can help it.
  Rent a van or truck and drive it there yourself!
  You’re very lucky that your show is domestic and not overseas.

  Unless you use a super-expensive carrier like Gander & White, this is the ONLY way to guarantee large and delicate will arrive safely and in one piece.

• [MarlboroTestMonkey7]

  How much for the human sized broiler?

• [Art]

  BTW:

  The artist didn’t say where the show is being held.

  Donation requests require just a ‘tad’ more specific information.

• [David Pescovitz]

  The show is at the Jack Hanley Gallery in NYC.

• [WestTexas]

  Too scary. I like benevolent robots; or if they’re threatening, I like the idea of Dwight in “The Office” to prevent their plan of world domination by giving them each only a six-foot extension cord.