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Farmer Dad And His Son Build Transformers From Scrap Metal In China And Make $160K A Year
A father-and-son team in southeastern China have started creating enormous recycled Transformer robot sculptures from spare parts of old cars. And they’ve been selling their sculpture art for more than 1 million yuan (more than $160,000) a year.
The Transformers movies are hugely successful in China, so Yu Zhilin, who is a farmer but has a background in fine arts, decided to start creating robot statues from scrap metal during his spare time. Three years later, he finished his first recycled metal sculpture with his son Lu Yingyun, and the statues only got bigger from there. Now his enormous Optimus Prime and Bumblebee sculptures, assembled in his makeshift workshop, have gone viral!
Transformer characters like these are often bought up and proudly displayed in malls throughout China, and this team isn’t the only one creating such cool art.
More info: shanghaiist.com (h/t: rocketnews24)
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ChiYeongAhn 10 years ago
Wow, I've made some robot model with welding techniqes but in tiny scale. They looks like being passionate.
HanaHasani 10 years ago
This originated in Montenegro, where a local student made transformers for a school project back in November 2014. Chinese copied.
Hymee 10 years ago
They're pieces of art so are therefore covered by the fair use act. It's the same law which allowed Warhol to sell prints of Monroe's face.
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ChiYeongAhn 10 years ago
Wow, I've made some robot model with welding techniqes but in tiny scale. They looks like being passionate.
HanaHasani 10 years ago
This originated in Montenegro, where a local student made transformers for a school project back in November 2014. Chinese copied.
Hymee 10 years ago
They're pieces of art so are therefore covered by the fair use act. It's the same law which allowed Warhol to sell prints of Monroe's face.
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