Simone Giertz

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Simone Giertz (2019)

Simone Luna Louise Söderlund Giertz (born November 1, 1990 in Stockholm ) is a Swedish inventor , maker , YouTuber and TV presenter . She lives in Los Angeles (USA).

Life

The last name of the Giertz family is of Low German origin. Simone Giertz is the daughter of Caroline Giertz, a novelist and TV presenter, and a descendant of Lars Magnus Ericsson , the founder of the Ericsson company . Her father worked as a television producer. She grew up in a small town called Saltsjö-Duvnäs , near Stockholm .

At 16, Giertz spent a year as an exchange student in China. She lived in Hefei , where she learned basic Mandarin . While in China, she also appeared on a Chinese sitcom called Huan Xi Long Xia Dang (Chinese: 欢喜 龙虾 档, the happy lobster restaurant) in which she played Catherine, a young American woman who married a Chinese man Has.

After returning from China, Giertz stayed in Stockholm for only three months, then traveled to Nairobi to learn Swahili at a Swedish boarding school. In 2012 she worked as an editor for the Chinese language version of the official website of Sweden, sweden.se. She then studied technical physics at the Royal Technical University in Stockholm, but dropped out after a year.

Career

In 2014, Giertz began training in the advertising and marketing industry at Stockholm's Hyper Island School. In this context, she completed an internship at the engineering company Punch Through Design in San Francisco , where she is now part of the team. There she got to know the Arduino physical computing platform through an open source hardware community , which she later used in her first own inventions.

According to Simone Giertz, the Disney character Daniel Düsentrieb was a role model for her to start with her first inventions. She uploaded her first, then little-noticed video to YouTube on September 15, 2014. In it she demonstrated a popcorn catapult. Her second video showed a toothbrush machine she had built for a pilot episode of a children's show about electronics. The show never aired, however the video kicked off her career as a YouTuber as it became a viral internet phenomenon .

Since then, Giertz has been running a YouTube channel on which she demonstrates robots that automate everyday tasks. Her inventions include an alarm clock that slaps people in the face to wake up, a lipstick applicator that spreads lipstick all over the face, and an automatic hair washer. She describes herself as the "queen of shitty robots", because although these are perfectly capable of working from a purely mechanical point of view, they lag behind the practical use that they pursue. Rather, their goal is a comical effect, often paired with self-deprecating comments. When building her robots, Giertz deliberately does not aim to produce something useful, but rather works with absurd solutions for potentially automatable situations.

Giertz featured several of these robots on Stephen Colbert's Late Show in 2016 . In the same year she joined Adam Savage's team at Tested , a network from the maker scene that understands itself at the interface between popular culture, science and technology. In her first project with Savage, she built a popcorn feeding machine, the Popcorn Feeding Helmet . In November 2016 she published a video about the creation process and the background of the Pussy Grabs Back Machine , an ironic response to Donald Trump's remark "Grab them by the pussy". She built the machine together with Laura Kampf during a stay in Cologne .

In 2017 she was a guest and co-presenter on the comedy show Manick with Nisse Hallberg on the Swedish internet television channel TV6.

In April 2018, Giertz developed a self-resembling robot that promoted the second season of the HBO series Westworld . In August 2019, Giertz traveled to New Zealand to work on a praying mantis business costume with special effects company Weta Workshop . Later, in autumn 2019, Giertz converted a Tesla Model 3 into a pick-up truck, also with the support of Laura Kampf. The reason she gave was that she would like to use an electric vehicle, but for practical reasons she needed a pick-up truck and didn't have time to wait for the official Tesla pick-up. The associated, parodic commercial and the 31-minute video describing the construction process received noteworthy coverage.

In June 2020, Giertz lent her voice to the animated character CGO in a special on the animation series Adventure Time under the title Adventure Time: Distant Lands .

Private

Simone Giertz lived for a few years on a houseboat, a ship from the 1940s that she and a friend had converted for residential purposes at the age of 22.

On April 30, 2018, Giertz announced on YouTube that she had been diagnosed with a benign brain tumor. Following surgery to remove the first-degree meningioma on May 30, 2018, she posted reports of her postoperative progress, including photos of her "nascent supervillain scar" and a public video on her Patreon account. On January 18, 2019, Giertz reported that her tumor had returned. After radiation therapy , Giertz returned to video production on May 29, 2019, described her experiences and presented a project that turned the stabilization mask she needed for the radiation into a work of art.

From 2016 to 2020 Giertz lived in San Francisco, where she also ran her own workshop. In 2020 she moved to Los Angeles.

Web links

Commons : Simone Giertz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Simone Giertz: The Worst Day of My Life: When I was on a Chinese sitcom. In: YouTube.com. June 24, 2016, accessed March 19, 2021 .
  3. ↑ a b Martina Kix: Simone Giertz: She is the queen of robots. In: zeit.de. November 11, 2018, accessed March 19, 2021 .
  4. ↑ a b Lauren Goode: Simone Giertz: With her "Shitty Robots" she became a YouTube star - now she is reinventing herself. In: vogue.de. October 12, 2020, accessed March 19, 2021 .
  5. ↑ About Us | Punch through design. Retrieved March 19, 2021 .
  6. ↑ Tanja Mokosch: Simone Giertz and "The Wake-up Machine". In: sueddeutsche.de. November 17, 2015, accessed March 19, 2021 .
  7. ↑ Christian Taferner: Simone is the queen of senseless robots. In: futter.kleinezeitung.at. May 27, 2016, accessed March 19, 2021 .
  8. ↑ Glen Tickle: The Toothbrush Machine, A Motorized Helmet With a Robotic Toothbrush Arm. In: Laughing Squid. August 4, 2015, accessed March 19, 2021 .
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  10. ↑ Jimmy Nsubuga: Someone's made an alarm clock that wakes you with a slap. In: metro.co.uk. November 15, 2015, accessed March 19, 2021 .
  11. ↑ This brilliant woman made a lipstick robot. In: dailydot.com. February 7, 2016, accessed March 19, 2021 .
  12. ↑ Selma Zoronjić: Simone Giertz: YouTuberin starts a Kickstarter campaign after her tumor disease. In: spiegel.de. October 24, 2018, accessed March 19, 2021 .
  13. ↑ Aviva Rutkin: The many reasons why we love useless robots. In: newscientist.com. March 22, 2016, accessed March 19, 2021 .
  14. ↑ Sophie Hase: Simone Giertz: She is the coolest inventor in the world! In: woman.at. June 1, 2016, accessed March 19, 2021 .
  15. ↑ The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: Simone Giertz is Queen of Crappy Robots. In: YouTube.com. September 3, 2016, accessed March 19, 2021 .
  16. ↑ About. In: Tested. Retrieved March 19, 2021 (American English).
  17. ↑ Gareth Branwyn: Simone Giertz Joins "Tested", Builds Popcorn Feeding Helmet | Make :. In: makezine.com. April 7, 2016, accessed March 19, 2021 .
  18. ^ Rachael Revesz: Full transcript: Donald Trump's lewd remarks about women on Days of Our Lives set in 2005. In: independent.co.uk. October 7, 2016, accessed March 19, 2021 .
  19. ↑ Simone Giertz: The Pussy Grabs Back Machine. In: YouTube.com. November 12, 2016, accessed March 19, 2021 .
  20. ↑ Fredagsmys med tens | Manick with Simone Giertz and Nisse Hallberg. In: YouTube.com. October 3, 2017, accessed March 19, 2021 (Swedish).
  21. ↑ Bonnie Burton: Watch a creepy DIY Westworld robot flail through a field. In: cnet.com. April 19, 2018, accessed March 19, 2021 .
  22. ↑ Ronny Kraak: Simone Giertz wanted a business mantis shrimp costume - and then they just did it. In: kraftfuttermischwerk.de. August 9, 2019, accessed March 19, 2021 .
  23. ↑ YouTube star Simone Giertz has a brain tumor - the size of a golf ball. In: sat1.de - breakfast television. May 3, 2018, accessed March 19, 2021 .
  24. ↑ Chloe Bryan: YouTuber Simone Giertz posts photo of 'super villain scar' after brain surgery. In: mashable.com. June 4, 2018, accessed March 19, 2021 .
  25. ↑ chwae: Simone Giertz 'brain tumor is back. In: Jetzt.de. January 23, 2019, accessed March 19, 2021 .
  26. ^ Simone Giertz: My experience with radiation therapy. In: YouTube.com. Simone Giertz, May 29, 2019, accessed on March 19, 2021 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Giertz, Simone
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Söderlund Giertz, Simone Luna Louise (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish inventor and YouTuber
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm