SRL At the Rivertown Revival: Post-Mini-Show Wrapup

by srl on July 26, 2010

Images and video are being edited and uploaded, keep checking the SRL Rivertown Revival archive page the next few days as we add more!

If you have high-rez images, video you would like to give us for our archives we would very much appreciate it! Please send your media to Karen Marcelo for details and credits.

Mark Pauline was also interviewed by SyFy Idea Lab on DIY. Read the interview here!


The Big Arm throws the Running Machine with Dead Frog flying to the ground


The Running Machine choking the Chicken

Images from k0re

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SRL at the Petaluma Rivertown Revival

July 20, 2010

Petaluma River Heritage Center Petaluma, CA Directions July 24 2010 SRL stages its first show since moving to Petaluma. Featuring the Big Arm and the Running Machine with “special” props. Saturday July 24th from 4pm to 6 pm in the field in front of the Petaluma River Heritage Center. See Rivertown Revival for location information. [...]

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Spine Robot Progress – June 2010

June 7, 2010

The bushings for the Spine Robot were just completed! Mark Pauline says, “These are the titanium 6AL-4V AMS 4928 bushings for the spine segments. They are press fit into the segments and are held in by snap rings. The best thing about making stuff out of titanium is the chips make blinding white light when [...]

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SRL: The Curse of Big

May 28, 2010

The Queens Museum in NY is running a show till October 03, 2010 called The Curse of Bigness.  The entrance will have several 12′ x 8′ original SRL show posters from 1978 on.  Three SRL videos will be played in a loop: Virtues of Negative Fascination, Will to Provoke, and Bitter Message of Hopeless Grief.  [...]

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SRL Machine Repair Log

April 25, 2010

In every SRL show, some of the large, more complex machines are damaged. Normally, these are repaired between shows. For the last 2 years though, getting moved and set up again was the priority, so few repairs were carried out. We’ve added a new section of the site: The Machine Repair Log which describes damage [...]

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The Latest Addition to the SRL Machine Stable: Spine Robot

March 28, 2010

At last year’s dorkbotSF at TCHO Mark Pauline talked about the latest machine he’d been working on and a review of other snake-like robot arms in existence. The SRL one is coming along. Read more about it and track its progress here or by clicking on the image above.

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Mark Pauline is interviewed in Russian Popular Mechanics

March 14, 2010

February 2010. More accurate translation forthcoming in the meantime, here’s the original and some links to Google and Babelfish: Original article in Russian Download PDF version here Babelfish Translation Google Translation

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New Machine Projects: Volunteers and Producers Wanted

September 13, 2009

Well, after a year and a half of moving from San Francisco to Petaluma and a few months of setting everything up again, SRL is finally back in the robot making business. We’re working on a couple new machine projects and want to be ready to show them off to the public. Photo from John [...]

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Renegade Art & Democracy

September 11, 2009

What do Andrew Stanton (writer director of Wall-e), Lynn Hershman (acclaimed filmmaker/video artist), Mickey Hart (Grateful Dead), Anne Lamott (author/activist), Mark Pauline (SRL), and Jane Metcalfe (co-founder WIRED) have in common? They (and 40+ other artists and activists) support the Renegade Liberal (as labeled by the National Journal) and champion of the public option in [...]

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2008: SRL Turns 30!

November 25, 2008

30 years ago today, I started Survival Research Laboratories. I hadcome up with the idea of machine performances a few weeks earlier,and when the owner of a local free magazine, “Boulevards Magazine”heard my spiel, and learned that I was thinking of forming SRL as acompany, he offered me, a free, full page ad space in [...]

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