Giant bike-friendly junk-cyborg

Luke sez, "I made this cyborg sculpture out of scavenged electrical wire, conduit, and parts from a submarine and a nuclear power plant. It's neat because its innards light up at night and it comes from a future in which the human form is preserved through continued use of the humble bicycle."

Wheeled Victory, or The Cyborg of Interstellar Justice Spring 2008 (Thanks, Luke!)

I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

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Anonymous

Luke, we have space in Old Town Alexandria, come and measure to make sure. We’d all be excited to have you store it here so others could also view it.

It’s terrific art and should be available for viewing and inspiration.

Nick
Pantograph

Interesting how that picture gives no sense of scale. The statue could be towering over the square or be as long as your finger and held up to the camera.
Luckily the other pictures in the article give more information.
Anonymous

Isn’t a cyborg supposed to have some organic components in it in order for it to be called a “cyborg”?
Anonymous

So awesome to see this! I used to work for a local theater’s scene shop, and one of our warehouse spaces was a shared space with this group. I remember seeing it through various stages of the process while we were building sets. So glad to see it completed!
Anonymous

Badass and congratulations, senior Luke! Rejoice or the man may turn on you..
efergus3

“It’s neat because its innards light up at night…” What do you expect, it’s made from a sub, probably a nuke type, and a nuke plant. I imagine if you lean on it a while, your innards would light up too.
Anonymous

Yeah, from the other website pictures it looks like the statue is roughly the size of an average human man. Still cool, but not the 100 ft cyber warrior of Armageddon that I was hoping for. :(
Anonymous

Very creative
twelvesixteen

Wonderful! Looks like the giant monster in NausicaÃ¤. Looking at the images in the link, it’s a lot smaller than I expected from the photo above, which makes it look like a giant.
Anonymous

Nick, no permanent home now, but it needs one soon before I move, any good ideas?
-Luke
orwellian

Wonderful! A great work of art even cooler what with the submarine and nuclear power plant parts. I presume the lights run on awesome?
Anonymous

Does this sculpture have a permanent home for viewing or is it continually moving from place to place?

Nick