{"id":23,"date":"2007-07-08T12:40:03","date_gmt":"2007-07-08T16:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/2007\/07\/08\/retro-appliance-death-rays-by-greg-brotherton\/"},"modified":"2007-07-08T12:40:03","modified_gmt":"2007-07-08T16:40:03","slug":"retro-appliance-death-rays-by-greg-brotherton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/2007\/07\/08\/retro-appliance-death-rays-by-greg-brotherton\/","title":{"rendered":"Retro Appliance Death Rays by Greg Brotherton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brotron.com\/main\/maingal.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/grafx2\/blog\/brotronA.jpg\" border=\"0\" height=\"234\" width=\"320\" style=\"float:right;margin:12px;margin-right:-12px;margin-top:0px;\"\/><\/a>I like the way <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brotron.com\/main\/maingal.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Greg Brotherton<\/a>  thinks. His online gallery shows us demented retro-futuristic devices like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brotron.com\/gallery\/EDR1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Electrolux Death Ray<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brotron.com\/gallery\/HD6SE1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sunbeam Heat Ray<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brotron.com\/gallery\/HRS1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hydraulic Robo-Slab<\/a>; just the sort of equipment I need for the Secret Laboratory.\n<\/p><p>\nDo not, on any account, miss the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brotron.com\/Movies\/DeathRay.mov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Electrolux Death Ray commercial<\/a>. You will definitely<em> not <\/em>want to be the last on your block to own one of <em>these<\/em> babies.\n<\/p><p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brotron.com\/gallery\/HRS1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/grafx2\/blog\/brotronB.jpg\" border=\"0\" height=\"220\" width=\"220\" style=\"float:left;margin:12px;margin-left:0px;\"\/><\/a>And of course in addition to the household appliances there are some fascinating robotic sculptures like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brotron.com\/gallery\/mintron1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Minitron<\/a>, an insectoid robotic minotaur. Honestly, that&#8217;s a phrase I never thought I&#8217;d use.\n<\/p><p>\nAnyway, these are about as close as I&#8217;m likely to get to the mad scientist appliance I really need &#8211; the Omnidirectional Disintegrating Weed Eater. Though one can hope.\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retro Mad Scientist equipment sculptures by Greg Brotherton, based on art deco streamlined home appliances and a demented sort of brain. The kind of science fiction art that makes you say Muahahahaha.<\/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-23","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\/23","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=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}