Monsterobot's Silent Planet

Visual Artist and Filmmaker, specializing in stop-motion animation, video installations, sculpture and painting.

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Melanie Mandl

Things Are Looking Up, 2025

Oil on panel

18 x 24 in

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Here’s another tiny set for the film I’m making for @theautry museum. It’ll be part of their upcoming exhibition “Imagined Wests” that opens this summer. Fun times coming up with different little vignettes for it! #miniature #tiny #stopmotion #setdesign #museum #westernstyle (at Keystone Art Space) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqWzfevLVjR/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Even though we are finally having warm weather in LA, it’s still winter here in tiny town. This mini cabin was made @deanstyers. Mini TV printed by @thereyouhaveit3d. Another tiny set for @theautry video piece I’m creating for an upcoming exhibition. #tinycontent #mini #miniature #diorama #stopmotionanimation (at Keystone Art Space) https://www.instagram.com/p/CogKWvCJv2g/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Today in tiny content: mini TV printed by @thereyouhaveit3d takes center stage in tiny desert diorama. Another tiny set for @theautry video piece I’m creating for an upcoming exhibition. #tinycontent #mini #miniature #diorama #stopmotionanimation (at Keystone Art Space) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn7F8TApE6q/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Holiday show @keystoneartla is now open! I’ve got some smalls on the wall that could make a weird gift. Come say hi - open from 12-6 Tuesday thru Sunday through the 18th #artwork #gift #painting #losangeles #gouache #oilpainting (at Keystone Art Space) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl8r3Hure13/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Sky Octopus

Paintings by Melanie Mandl

September 10 -18, 2022

Opening reception Saturday, September 10th 5-8pm

In early 2020, someone was flying a black octopus kite in the local parks. Almost daily its stark and undulating shape hovered over the Cornfields near Chinatown and in Elysian Park above the empty tennis courts. This fluttering beacon in the sky signaled that another person was at the other end of the invisible string.

As a child growing up in Idaho, artist Melanie Mandl flew a similar kite in the hills of Boise. Her grandparents lived near San Francisco and bought it for her in Chinatown. Sometimes the string would run out, unattached to the core. She would have to run after in through the dust and sagebrush of the high desert. Somehow it always snagged on something and she could retrieve it, with great relief. She loved that kite.

If anyone reading this knows who the person was at the other end of that kite string, please let Melanie know. She has a painting for them.

Melanie Mandl is an American artist living and working in Los Angeles. She is the founder and owner of Keystone Art Space.

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Stations #5 - Video installation by Melanie Mandl 2018

watch the entire video here

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Portrait of Sharpie the chihuahua.

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STATIONS

STATIONS Stop-motion video installation by Melanie Mandl Sound design by David Bach c 2017 Monsterobot Inc.

Another strange thing I made.

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Some tiny things that I made.

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100 Days of Monsterobot

A compilation of the 100 videos created by Melanie Mandl for the100DayProject.

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The Story of Mabel McKay

Stop-motion animation piece created by Melanie Mandl for the Autry Museum in Los Angeles. This video portrait is part of "The Life and Work of Mabel McKay",…

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SKIN

Stop-motion video installation created by Melanie Mandl c2016

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The legend of Bloody Mary is REAL!!!

TOMATOFACE http://texasbeachbloodymary.com http://miserybrothers.com Produced by - Misery Brothers and The Branching Written by - Misery Brothers with Rob Wo...

Happy Halloween everyone! At last, the spooky story of Bloody Mary is revealed, via this spot I directed for the Misery Brothers and Texas Beach Bloody Mary Mix. Enjoy!

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One of the characters in my upcoming stop-motion short is this little seagull. I finished him yesterday.