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retroremakes
December 12th, 2009, 00:05
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/4/2009/12/500x_bot8_01.jpg (http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/4/2009/12/bot8_01.jpg)Meet Artform No. 1. It took him six years to grow from a heap of brass and stainless steel into this ooh-la-la-hey-there-gorgeous model you see now and he's damn proud of it. Just look at this cheeky metal man's poses.
The Artform No. 1 figurine was built by Mark Ho (http://gizmodo.com/tag/markho/) out of over 500 parts and the 17-inch, 16-pound fellow is fully articulated, which means that he can be posed in any of the shapes the human form can take and then some:

Only 25 of these sculptures have been made and, while their prices aren't listed, I can't help but want one to lounge on my desk, giving me those sultry bedroom eyes as I write silly posts. [Zoho Artforms (http://www.zohoartforms.com/index.htm) via Automata/Autamaton (http://www.dugnorth.com/blog/2009/12/articulated-metal-figure-in-bronze-and.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheAutomataBlog+(The+Automata +%2F+Automaton+Blog)) via Make (http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/12/jaw-dropping_fully_articulated_mach.html)


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