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Monday January 4, 2010
Michael Rapa Illustrations
Digital art for the robot and insect lover
Things you know about MIT: Boston's technology hub,
hilariously complicated pranks, not a lot of girls. Things
you don't know about MIT: it's an acronym! Oh wait, you knew
that? Damn. Well, here's something you don't: they've got
tech dudes penning sick art, like Michael Rapa.
Currently an MIT tech support specialist, MR is a
Quincy-living illustrator who digitally draws a wild/funny
collection of animated prints with a heavy focus on insects,
miniature people, sea animals, and robot gang violence, all
of which were Gary Busey's majors in junior college. The
arachnid series includes Mosquito Farm, a brown/beige/gray
print that depicts a mobile farm house built for "an almost
parasitic race of microscopic humans" on the back of a
flying mosquito; Bumble Brigade, showcasing a mutated bumble
bee carrying a three-masted pirate ship; and the marbled,
earth toned Cricket Communications portraying a giant brown
cricket with a full radio tower on his back complete with
mini picnic table and BBQ grill, but sadly no bar to mix up
Grasshoppers. Robotwise, there's Love Accessory, a tall gray
'bot hoisting a television with a heart on the screen above
its head; an antennae-equipped squid wrapping its
electric-plug tentacles around a toothy whale, aptly titled
Robot Squid vs Robot Whale, a Summer Blockbuster; and
Roboticide, depicting a yellow robot shooting a blue one in
the head with a revolver, because "in a war of complementary
colors there can only be one victor" -- this isn't your
fight, purple!
If you're less into 'bots, there's Squid Invasion, with a
blue jeans-clad, giant-headed squid running away from a
police car; and a yellow caped superhero with a smiling
triangular head of cheese giving the double guns, called
Laser Cheese, or as they refer to it on MIT's campus,
"something we invented in the 80s".
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-----------------Morning Quickie------------------
^ Finally! - Seriously this time, Stoddard's Fine Food & Ale
softly opens its Temple St doors on Wednesday. Stay tuned
for a full rundown.
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