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January 21, 2011

Friday Five: 01/21/2011

Filed under: cool tricks,F-ed up!,science — Tags: alternate ending, australia, danny macaskill, deathmetal, ewoks, flooding, freestyle bike, friday five, jedi, mcdonalds, NPR, preaching baby, sculpture, walking, water — Tod @ 11:28 am

Why Can’t We Walk Straight?

A Mystery: Why Can’t We Walk Straight? from NPR on Vimeo.

Saw this a month or so ago, but it popped up again on Boing Boing and I thought I’d share. I really want to try this experiment. who’s with me?!

Hardcore drummer + preaching baby


YouTube Doubler

Youtube doubler? Sweet! I will be playing with this some more.

Water Sculptures

Water Sculpture from Shinichi Maruyama on Vimeo.

Artist Shinichi Maruyama
via Boing Boing

Return of the Jedi Alternate Ending

Sorry Ewoks!

Automato: Ketchup dispensing robot

Worst robot ever? or best? It’s so enthusiastic and farty!

Canoeing through a flooded McDonalds

This is creepy and surreal.

Danny MacAskill – Way Back Home

Free-style bike master Danny MacAskill tears it up in front of some amazing scenery. The song’s not bad either. Beautiful stuff and awesome bikery.

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January 14, 2011

Friday Five: 1/14/2011

Filed under: animation,cool tricks,music video,nerds,robot,science,stupid,technology,Uncategorized — Tags: 80s, advertainment, beck, commercials, debt, drummer, drums, friday five, inxs, jellyfish, Mtv, ping pong, roanoke, robot, speed, spending, st vincent, super delicious ingredient force, superheroes, taco bell, time warp, turd — Tod @ 10:05 am

Drummer on high-speed

From Time Warp. I miss that show. Also this guy is sick fast.

Never Tear Us Apart

One of my favorite INXS songs covered by Beck and Annie from St. Vincent

Turdbusters

This 100% legit and real commercial is from the town i grew up in. Stay classy guys.

Super Delicious Ingredient Force

Holy crap. For advertainment, this is awesome!

Debtris

A well done info-graphic about the size and scale of our worldwide spending.

Jellyfish – The MTV theme

Heard this the other day and it brought back major flashbacks. I remember watching MTV at the neighbor’s house when i would visit my grandparents LONG before I had cable of my own. They had one of those big click-button boxes for changing the channels. Thanks to Jason for pointing me to the band responsible for this piece of television history.

Ping pong robot

this shit is sweeeeeet.

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June 19, 2010

Light ray animation: Gunfight

Filed under: animation,cool art,cool tricks,stupid,technology,violence — Tags: animation, gunfight, light — Tod @ 10:27 am

The animation effect from those feel-good phone commercials now used for violence.

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June 18, 2010

The Best of Data

Filed under: cool tricks,Movie Trailer,nerds,technology — Tags: 80s, Data, flashback, Goonies — Tod @ 10:24 am

From the Goonies. Granted his characterization reads a little racist today, but he was always my favorite.

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June 16, 2010

Motorcycle Hill Climb

Filed under: cool tricks,sports,stunt,stupid — Tags: hill climb, motorcycle, sport — Tod @ 10:24 am

I don’t know why i find Hill climb events so interesting. It seems like a very specific appeal sport.

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June 11, 2010

Working Lego Printer

Filed under: cool tricks,nerds,science,technology — Tags: lego, printer — Tod @ 10:30 am

I know everybody has posted this a million times by now, but too bad. here it is from me.

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June 10, 2010

Ripped and reposted 1000 times.

Filed under: Budge,cool art,cool tricks,DIY/instructions,nerds,science — Tags: degradation, download, experiment, video — Tod @ 10:30 am

This is amazing. This guy uploaded a video to Youtube, ripped it from Youtube and then reloaded it 1,000. Like photocopying a photocopy of a photocopy etc etc. The degradation is really cool

1,000 times