Apr 30 2009Dead Bugs + Old Watch Parts = 'Cybugs'
Mike Libby is a Maine-based artist who glues old watch parts on dead bugs to create steampunk looking insects. Which actually seem pretty cool until you realize that this is what robots will really look like in a few years. True story: one time I let a beetle crawl into my ear just to know what it would feel like. Unfortunately, it burrowed into my head (not unlike a Ceti eel) and I had to brain myself with an ice pick to get it out. If you couldn't tell, that was a pickup line. Ladies?
The artist, who holds a degree in sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design, says his Insect Lab began after he found a dead, intact beetle. He thought the bug looked and operated like a little mechanical device, and decided to combine the two in a statement about the similarities and contradictions between nature and technology.
And speaking of statements about the similarities and contradictions between nature and technology: I just zip-tied a laser pointer to my penis. Now -- who wants to see some REAL art?
Hit the jump for a bunch more, including a ROFLCOPTER.
Artist's tricked-out 'cybugs' creating a buzz [cnet]
Thanks to Marc, who once glued old watch parts to his face and tried to convince his date he was a love machine. It worked.
Reader Comments
1. a retard - April 30, 2009 9:21 AM
i knew a guy that would build this stuff out of turds and tounge sepressors.
he was also in jail
2. a retard - April 30, 2009 9:25 AM
I used to hear stories about him when I was not there about how he would create GI Joes out of crap and pixie stix. We used to have to wash him down with a hose and sedate him. he also used to rip the door off the hinges.
3. chubo - April 30, 2009 9:34 AM
would be cool if the bugs did move with the clockwork parts but looks like he has just stuck them on with glue or something *YAWN* i would of made the little fukers dance or throw there own poo or maybe or form all together into some sort of giant fire breathing death wheel then roll into those fukers at FLM and make them eat sh*t and die.
4. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - April 30, 2009 9:37 AM
OLD!
http://inventorspot.com/articles/insect_lab_13432
5. STOMPY (mutha uckas) - April 30, 2009 9:48 AM
LOG!!11
6. Timbo - April 30, 2009 9:55 AM
Cool lookin ...until you realize he's playing with dead bugs...
Then again if I could get $250-$1,000 for a dead bug I might too...
7. Luke - April 30, 2009 10:02 AM
Mikde Libby is the shit. I should have bought a pice back when he was elling htem for like $250. Damn these are nice.
8. Daisy - April 30, 2009 10:12 AM
First <3
9. Whoah! - April 30, 2009 10:18 AM
@8
Fake! you can tell it's fake because the shadows are all wrong..Its like that scene in never back down when....
10. Kev - April 30, 2009 10:23 AM
TOP TEN WANGERANGS!
11. Daisy - April 30, 2009 10:26 AM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job, You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max tracked down a robot stripper using a scale from a robot snake.
12. STOMPY - April 30, 2009 10:27 AM
he should move from insects to bigger animals, imagine how cool a half mech half bear half pig would look!
13. kreebilicus - April 30, 2009 10:49 AM
@4 go somewhere else where people actually care that you were the one that saw it first. "oh gordon, you're so fricking kewl! suck my tiny wizard clit/dick, gordon"
14. naas - April 30, 2009 10:51 AM
This is dated shum, I thought I'd seen something like this before. Interesting though, I used to make stuff like this out of turds & tounge depressors. I was in jail for playing with poop & my GI joe's so there was a lot of time to kill. I also got off sexually to tearing doors off of their hinges
15. Quik - April 30, 2009 11:25 AM
"decided to combine the two in a statement about the similarities and contradictions between nature and technology. "
WHATEVER!
This guy just thought it looked neat to put watch parts on bugs.
I think they are pretty cool. But c'mon, the whole contradiction crap? Just say you like making neat little robot bugs.
16. Angel Mass - April 30, 2009 11:29 AM
Dang that is just awesome
17. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - April 30, 2009 11:39 AM
I'm officially creeped out.
18. STINK - April 30, 2009 1:10 PM
When will he start mechanizing dead humans? I want a clockwork Elvis!
19. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - April 30, 2009 1:25 PM
@14
Don't we all? HULK SMASH!
20. Me - April 30, 2009 1:55 PM
I wanna see what he does with dead cats...
21. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - April 30, 2009 3:10 PM
@20
He fücks them.
22. Mr.Nevermind - April 30, 2009 3:30 PM
He glues things onto dead bugs? WOW! I think someone neeeds to look for a job!!
23. L - April 30, 2009 6:25 PM
They're not fake, guys.
http://www.insectlabstudio.com/?item/291
24. Keithypoo - April 30, 2009 6:53 PM
Scorpinok......sweet.
25. Watch-303 - April 30, 2009 7:11 PM
this is cool! STEAMPUNK BUGS!
26. ok go - May 1, 2009 4:53 PM
the beetle one is quite cool.
27. Maja - June 24, 2009 7:04 AM
Incredibly imaginative work combined with very fine hand skills. It's amazing - absolutely love it! Can they actually move or is the machinery just for looks?
28. Maja - June 24, 2009 7:07 AM
BTW would be super cool to stop-motion animate the clockwork-bugs!
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