Recylcing Task

Film
In the film Transformers, the robots that the main warriors/characters are made up of bits of machinery some of the bigger and more important characters are other forms for vehicles such as like Trucks, Cars, Jets and Motorcycles. The Transformers themselves can transform at will into the vehicles they have been attached too, they also have the ability to recycle their old forms In order to switch which technology they can morph into as shown when one of the main characters, Bumblebee goes through a tunnel and swaps out from a dated old car into a more recent, expensive and quicker sports car in exchange for his old form.

Literature
In the Comic Books of the Star Wars series there are creatures named the Jawa, the Jawa are a species of Alien that use scraps and recycle bits of machinery that they find in order to craft droids. They even destroy some droids in order to use them for spare parts. Robots/Droids are a huge part in the Star Wars franchise and when the Jawa take them apart they sell them off to markets.
“Jawas were a communal, compulsive scavenger species who spent most of their life devoted to scavenging the deserts of Tatooine in search of any scrap metal, droid or mechanical part left behind from millennia of star travel and technological advancement.”





 

Game

In the game Minecraft and the Tekkit Mod recycling is a key feature as it is a survival game and you are forced to use any resources that you have available. Ways that recycling is used in this game are through means of; cutting down trees in order to build houses and tools, mining ore, using the recycling machine to convert old items into scrap. The Recycling Machine literally takes any item you throw into it and outputs blocks of scrap,this scrap can be used for other means like crafting metal tools.

Illustration

In the illustration to the right you can see a pair of metal players cutting down a tree this tree is in a paper texture and it clearly shows that the tree is been cut down in order to make a newspaper or a book.

Animation

For Animation I discovered the work of Nelson Costa. Costa created a small, stop-motion animation; these are some of his original design stop motion puppets that are recycled from several kinds of metal metal parts. They feature magnetic and fully poseable armatures with moveable details.

Artist/Designer

Ottό Szabό is a Designer from Behance who recycles used piping and bits of Metals in order to create models of Warriors, Wizards and Princesses. These pieces are called Lunch Break Warriors, they acquired this name because Szabό only has a few minutes in his lunch break at work and this is when he decides to craft the little figures known as the Lunch Break Warriors! More of Ottό’s work can be found at: http://www.behance.net/gallery/Lunch-Break-Warriors/13490077