Monthly Archives: May 2007

Beatbots – AI Dancing Squishies

By | Published: May 31, 2007
BEATBOTS Designed and built by Hideki Kozima, Keepon is a small creature-like robot developed to perform emotional and attentional interaction with children. It has four degrees of freedom, a soft rubber skin, two cameras in its eyes, and a microphone in its nose.
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Globe Probe – Tanqueray Ad spot

By | Published: May 19, 2007
The Tanqueray brand is at it again. With the help of award-winning director Tommy Kuntz, composer John Frizzell and production company MJZ, the brand has created an exclusive web adventure show dripping with flavor. In this episode, Tony Sinclair and his crew search for the rare Rangpur lime and find much more – a new [...]
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Names lost with time

By | Published: May 15, 2007
Take a peek at: The Baby Name Wizard. You’ll find that names below are way out of date. Pity them if they still shuffle among the popularly-named people. Ira – 1980s Ida – 1980s Etta-1970s Gertrude – 1960s Prudence – 1950s Fanny – 1940s Agnes – 1970s Pearl – 1950s Morton – 1950s Mortimer – 1940s Humphrey – 1890s Mabel- 1950s Augusta – 1930s Bertha -1970s Elmira – 1940s Maude – [...]
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Flirty Fishing: Prostitutes for Christ

By admin | Published: May 15, 2007
I’m currently researching family structure in utopian communes, and i’ve just come upon a late 60s system of proslytizing used by the cult ‘Children of God.’ It’s a way to transfer the hippie ideals of free love into Christianity, because God is Love, and any expression of it is holy. Flirty Fishing was a subset of [...]
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RC helicopter Acrobatics

By | Published: May 14, 2007
I guess now that this is a video only blog, I better keep it up. Here’s an astonishing display of RC acrobatics
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Hardrock Halellujah

By | Published: May 13, 2007
Lordi – Hardrock Halellujah Finnish Hardrockers.Hard Rock Hallelujah! Hard Rock Hallelujah! The saints are crippled On this sinners’ night Lost are the lambs with no guiding light The walls come down like thunder The rocks about to roll It’s the arockalypse Now bare your soul All we need is lightning With power and might Striking down the prophets of force As the moon is rising Give us the [...]
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Honest People, Noble Dreams

By | Published: May 13, 2007
GIZMO by Howard Smith Here we have perhaps the funniest collection of old footage I ever did see. It features many many hilarious people with their inventions, sideshow talents, and advice. The deepest desires of science are here revealed by a load of enthusiastic crackpots. This movie is a collection of stories of people obsessed by [...]
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Science! an infrared fart…

By | Published: May 9, 2007
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Bushu suru – Flashback time

By | Published: May 8, 2007
President George H.W. Bush vomited on the lap of Japan‚Äôs prime minister Kiichi Miyazawa during a state dinner Jan. 8, 1992, in Tokyo and then fainted. The Japanese coined a phrase, bushu-suru, meaning ‚Äúembarrassing public vomiting‚Äù or, literally, ‚Äúto do a Bush.‚Äù From a list of public blunders. If only there was a video….
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Starburst – Selling confusion

By | Published: May 7, 2007
TBWA\Chiat\Day is the genius behind these ads for Starburst/Skittles. The candy is somewhat in the backseat of a ridiculous series of commercials. They feature confused normal people in the presence of something strange like a singing bunny or a rapscallious courtesan in a bus station. Berries and Cream (longer version here)
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