29 September 2007 - giant robots

Jay Scott : Daily Whale : archive : 2007 : 29 September 2007

Mad Scientist Training

If you can’t throw a man out the window and build him prosthetic legs before he hits the ground, you’ll never construct giant robots.

clue:

“If you aren’t skillful enough to sketch a man who’s thrown himself out of a window during the time it takes him to fall from the fifth floor to the ground, you’ll never make grandes machines [giant paintings].” — Eugene Delacroix

give me a clue so sweet and true