About the Artist

MemeBots are cartoon robots, with themes that are sometimes topical and sometimes nonsensical. There is no real method to the madness, other then the robot art aspect. I just draw what amuses me at the moment and hope it can amuse a few others.

Drawn with ball-point pen on Post-It Notes, they are done in my spare time, when I get bored, when an idea strikes, whenever… What matters most to me is getting this out there, actually putting ideas down quickly and moving on to the next one.

Now, not to take myself too seriously, but…

What’s the Style?

The art style draws from when I was younger drawing graffiti in black books. Many influences, shapes, line-styles and character features, are drawn from graffiti that I remember seeing locally around Washington DC and also in graffiti magazines. In particular Felon was always a favorite character artist of mine around DC, and someone I’d still love to meet.

Later in my career as a web designer/developer I was lucky enough to work with a graffiti clothing line called East Coast Clothing, than a now defunct graffiti magazine While You Were Sleeping and even luckier to work on the old Dalek website. Each helped expand my horizons greatly as to the influence that modern illustrations could have on people.

Why Post-It Notes?

The idea of a limited canvas has always been something I liked ever since the early 90′s when I was a kid drawing ANSI Art for a group called iCE, among others, under the handles Metal Head & Shaggy. Being able to constrain one aspect of what you are creating tends to free you to be more creative in other aspects.

So I chose Post-It notes. Simple, readily available, ultra-portable and it doesn’t get much easier to get yourself a fresh canvas then peeling away one note only to have tens of them left right beneath it.

What’s the Point?

The concept here is the spread of MemeBots to the point where they truely become an Internet Meme in-and-of themselves. I would love to see my MemeBots propagate through the internet, showing up in random places, on random sites. The first time that I inadvertently come across one on the internet I’ll be celebrating.

But, be warned… As is quoted on the Wikipedia Meme entry: “Memeticists argue that the memes most beneficial to their hosts will not necessarily survive; rather, those memes that replicate the most effectively spread best, which allows for the possibility that successful memes may prove detrimental to their hosts.”

So, please feel free to save MemeBot images and post them elsewhere, but do it responsibly.

Save & re-post them how you would like, alter them how you would like, whatever. I’m a child of the internet from before the World Wide Web existed and BBS‘s still were alive and well as a means of digital communication. I’ve run and participated in many internet forums and understand how these things go.

BZA