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Published: 2005-05-28 10:09:02 +0000 UTC; Views: 8034; Favourites: 87; Downloads: 592
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NanoBot Dragon OneArtifical Nanoscopic Robotic Organism
Medical series: Human Auto immune system enhancement.
Sterile (non-replecating) For single use only (do not attempt to re-target organism)
Absolute life span 46 hours. Patent must be kept under strict observation for duration of treatment.
Clarke's third law states: 'Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic'
Arthur C. Clarke, "Profiles of The Future", 1961 English physicist & science fiction author (1917 - )
This law of Sci Fi became well known after Clarks rise to fame following the success of 2001, and it was probably one of the most influential ideas behind the blending of high fantacy with 'hard' science fiction in the 1970s and beyond. It became common practice to gloss over the plausability of futuistic technolgy because Clark's law gave everyone a licence to say 'its beyond contemporary (Human) understanding'. Cultural relativism is taken for granted today, but in the 'serious' SF world up to the 1950's it was unthinkable. The whole idea of SF was to explore the possibilties hinted at by real scientific research.
So yes... under Clarks law you can have 'real' dragons. But Jurasic Park demonstrated like no other film, why it was not a good idea to do something like that just because we can.
So I put the question: If entertainment was not a good enough reason to bring 'dragons' to life, what would be? Why would you create something so terrible and dangerious? The answer to me is medicine.
Create a dragon on 'our side'; a dragon capable of hunting down and destroying cancer cells within a living human; a dragon too small to get out of hand.
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A published work is beyond the control of an artist and I think it is stupid to try. People are free to interpret this image as they please, and there is nothing the artist or anyone else can do to stop this from happening.
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BTW turn the sucker 'tail up', and check out the movement! Wow!
I regard this image as still in progress.
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SO COOL!
the detail is amazing. All of your drawings are amazing. How long does it take to draw these things?
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Thank you
The average out at about 30 hours each
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Heh. The funny thing about micro-organisms is that with the right numbers, they can decimate entire populations. Such is life.
All of your drawings are so fascinating. The level of detail and the thought behind them. Wonderful job.
I'm faving this ^_^.
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A very VERY good point.
That is why these little buggers have no sex organs and are engineered to die of old age BEFORE their natural ancestors reached sexual maturity 
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Very, very nice. I truely love the detail in this one...excellenet.
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wow, i sure didin't think nanobots would look so...artistic 
it's really cool though. indistinguishable from magic indeed!
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The roll of artists has changed thoughout the ages. There was a time when it was normal for people to conceive things in their head because they needed customer approval for their projects and materials were too valuable to mess about with. Today many artists are expected to come up with the unexpected. Both ways have advantages and disadvantages.
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Wow, this is fantastic! Arthur C. Clarke is one of my favorite authors. I like the description that you wrote 
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Thank you so much for your wonderful comments 
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Most excellent- i fancy that you have something in common with Kandinsky in that you seem to draw these great abstract shapes from the 'soul' as it were. Superb description too, tho i do think i prefer it as a standalone piece of surreal art that leaves the viewer to decide what it actually is. To me it looks like something that is massive, an instrument of some robotic, ancient and cylopean gods. But thats just me
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Well you could say I am a child of Kandinski. My father was very influenced by him and he taught me. Kandiski, Klee, Mondrian... I have a lot of time for the constructivists in general, because they were not affraid of ideas and believed that artists could play a role in society as vital as scientists.
Central to my training was Mondian's concept of 'taking a line for a walk'.
As for the soul of shapes... you are very right... It took me a long time to realise that the shapes had to be let loose on the paper and given their head.
I completely agree with your comment about my 'description'. A published work is beyond the control of an artist and I think it is stupid to try. People are free to interpret the image as they please, and there is nothing the artist or anyone else can do to stop that happening.
BTW turn the sucker 'tail up', and check out the movement! Wow!
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you know i'm gonna love it, sweet man, sweet
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They might be, but you'd need a whole lot of 'em to get any taste
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and I guess they'd mess up your digestive system, wouldn't they?
By the way "too small to get out of hand" - I'd say that the smaller it is, the more dangerous it becomes if it get out of hand. But then... I guess in the danger department, size doesn't matter *g*
wonderful dtails. How big is the original?
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No, your stomech acid and digestive ensigms would destroy them very quickly.
You are right about small not being weak. But these dragons are both sterile and short lived so I don't think they would be a problem.
The original was drawn on an A3 sheet of paper.
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ah, ok, good engineering then ^^
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Its easy to be a good engineer on paper... especially when you get great feedback like your own. If only such a useful creature was as easy to make for real.
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I always try to give constructive feedback, I'm happy when it's appreciated : )
Yes well, we'll have to wait another few decades, maybe less... It will probably not look this way, though.
You know, when browsing through your gallery, I noticed the way how some comments become little conversations about the pieces. And I never knew how to define "art", but now I think it may be something that stimulates other's imagination as well and brings about communicaton, and your art does that.
Or maybe I was just getting philosophical ; )
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Anything you can imagine... you can do!
Thank you so much for your wonderful comment. Its very gratifying to know I am doing something right from the audience's point of view.
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Why would it? 
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BTW I am just looking at your work 'Imagination' that has come up on my random favourets.
I think you are the best artist working in traditional paint I have ever seen on dA.
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I never lie about art
Being an artist on ebay is all about the work, not the artist. Which I think is a good thing. You have to make at least 100 sales on ebay before customers start to trust you, and that takes at least a year if you are lucky. But it is well worth it because you CAN earn a living from your art on ebay.
I will check out your scraps and get back to you
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The next time you want to reply to a message please press the REPLY button so I could recieve it on my acount! It's a good thing that I checked your "deviation" once more.
Sell my work on the internet? I don't know.
Please tell me what you think about my project. I'll give you some details if you want about the "process"
Thank you for your kindness and keep up the good work!
With respect.
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Oops 
I'm on an old lap top at the moment at the keyboard is a bit irratic.
I will have a look at your work now
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Oh... that's not true. 
And YOU are the nicest artist on DA
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Shhhhhh.... it might hear you
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I can't tell what it is exactly!! but sure I like it. *fav*
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stop sending these messages ok !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I am sorry. What messages?
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You asked me to stop sending you messages but I have not sent any to you.
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Yes it is... its a kind of magic
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Ah don't mention it... It is very interesting when the mind sees beauty in something that he can't explain...
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So I shall follow your example....
thanks
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wow... awesome job commenting within 30 seconds of the upload
Thank you so much for the fav.
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wow,awesome job on the details*favs*
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