Technology has come a long way from the dark days of the 1980′s when fingerless gloves and slap bracelets weren’t considered hideous forms of fashion expression and dumping your child’s entire college savings into Pogs were a sound investment that’s sure to pay off in the long run. Not only were the robots of the past primitive in terms of their technology and function, but they lacked a serious quality that practically makes them as obsolete as the horse and buggy: a lack of a personality that didn’t want to make humans grab something heavy and smash them until their own motherboards couldn’t recognize them.

Andrea Petrachi a.k.a. Himatic creates his robotic sculptures from things most of people simply throw away. Himatic see his work as a symbol of our out-of-control desire to buy things. At the same time, his work raise issues about the human desire to challenge nature through technology.

For light painting you need a digital camera with long exposure and 5 different types of light sources such as flashlights, light toys, torch, LED’s. Now you need to find a darkened room and partner to take the pictures. Now set your camera in such a way that it can take long exposure pictures, most digital cameras are capable of taking 8 seconds or longer exposure. This process is called “shutter priority” or “bulb setting”.

You can almost pimp everything nowadays, even your macbook. There are a lot of cool and interesting decals you can put on your mac, so it doesn’t look that boring and old. The Iron Man, Bart Simpson and Snow White are probably the most popular among people, but the other ones are also amazing.

The portraits are created mainly by using painted floppy disks and VHS, and putting them together into one piece. The artist Nick Gentry has focused on how the technology is affecting our society, and how the World Wide Web has put aside all of the physical objects that were used to restore information on, like cassettes, VHS, polaroids and disks.