{"id":1577,"date":"2012-04-17T10:13:06","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T14:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/?p=1577"},"modified":"2012-04-17T10:13:06","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T14:13:06","slug":"mike-rivamontes-assemblage-sculpture-robots-rockets-speaker-grilles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/2012\/04\/17\/mike-rivamontes-assemblage-sculpture-robots-rockets-speaker-grilles\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Rivamonte&#8217;s assemblage sculpture: Robots! Rockets! Speaker Grilles!"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/mrivamonte.com\/sculpture.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/grafx2\/blog\/Mike_Rivamonte_Robot_Sculpture.jpg\" alt=\"Retro Robot Sculpture by Mike Rivamonte\" width=\"501\" height=\"443\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<div style=\"width:450px;margin-left:25px;\">\n  <p align=\"left\">There&#8217;s just something about assemblage sculpture of robots, in which the artist picks from the cast-off streamlined spare parts of yesterday and makes something entirely original &#8211; though not entirely new &#8211; out of those old gauges, speaker grilles, canisters and vacuum tubes. Like I say, there&#8217;s just something about them and that something never fails to make me smile.<\/p>\n  <p align=\"left\">So thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkroastedblend.com\/2012\/04\/lightsaber-cat-vs-dogs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Dark Roasted Blend<\/em><\/a> I&#8217;ve been smiling this morning.<\/p>\n  <p align=\"left\">These are just a couple of pictures of <a href=\"http:\/\/mrivamonte.com\/sculpture.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mike Rivamonte&#8217;s assemblage sculptures<\/a>. My favorite listed component (so far!) is &quot;Australian drive-in speaker&quot;. Because the dedicated roboticist will go straight to the Antipodes for his diodes.<\/p>\n  <p align=\"left\">There are also rockets, including some resin-cast versions, listed on <a href=\"http:\/\/mrivamonte.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rivamonte&#8217;s home page<\/a>, and for those of us with more appreciation than ready cash there are <a href=\"http:\/\/mrivamonte.com\/cprints.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">some awfully nice prints, too<\/a>. Wonderful stuff!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p align=\"left\">\n[tags]robot, rocket, sculpture, assemblage, vintage, retro, mike rivamonte[\/tags]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s just something about assemblage sculpture of robots, in which the artist picks from the cast-off streamlined spare parts of yesterday and makes something entirely original &#8211; though not entirely new &#8211; out of those old gauges, speaker grilles, canisters and vacuum tubes. Like I say, there&#8217;s just something about them and that something never [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-found-on-the-web"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}