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Hitchhiker’s Guide Entry> Feasting horn
A ceremonial musical instrument. Not much is known about its origin or history except that it is sounded to herald the commencement of the consumption a large meal or an unhealthy candy alternative to a meal.
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Pop Lock and Drop It.
Most of my friends know my fondness for break dancing, in particular, popping. I’m not very good, but I have my signature “robot arm spin” move, and can moonwalk/float moderately well. I also am one of those people that went to see “You Got Served” in the theater. Even with Viral videos of David “Elsewhere” being seen by millions of people, it’s still a relatively underground art form.
So when Robert Muraine (aka Mr. Fantastic) showed up on the TV Show “So You Think You Can Dance”, I was shocked. Not just at how creative and brilliant this kid is, but at the judges’ reactions as well. Somebody give this guy some money. Now.
Watch him totally kill it in the video audition…
$1 Image Stabilizer for any camera
Wall painting in motion
This is amazing:
MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.
Where’s the party?
There’s a party in my tummy! (So yummy!)
Are you laughing? Or at least smiling and nodding approvingly saying, “aww yeah…”?
If not, watch this:
Yeah. Just take it all in. Maybe get something to eat…put some food in your stomach. Because I don’t think you should watch the next couple clips with an empty stomach. Plus, apparently, your food doesn’t like not being eaten. Anyway…on with the clips!
I think this is the opening title sequence…but with this show…you never know.
Now watch Frodo dance.
The show is called Yo Gabba Gabba! and while it is by all rights a children’s show, it has an absurd and quizzical appeal that I’m sure only older ones appreciate. Consider some of their guests during the first season: Tony Hawk, Biz Markie (he has a regular segment - Biz’s Beat of the Day, where he teaches kids how to beatbox…), The Shins, Mark Mothersbaugh (Devo), Rahzel, and The Aquabats.
So if you have children, you’ll have no problem explaining why you have all the episodes DVRed. If you don’t…well, just show anyone who’s curious one episode—they’ll either understand completely or you may never hear from them again. Either way, you’ll still have your Dancey Dance Time.
We like what wii see
OK. I can say without much expectation of negative feedback that the Nintendo Wii has universal appeal. The realistic demographic of this system is probably quite similar to the age range found on those Yes & Know invisible ink books.
Video games used to be a relatively focused territory of adolescent/teen/20 something boys. Rarely would parents or grandparents or girls venture into this button-mashing pastime. When mom or sis would somehow get reeled in for a game of Sonic the Hedgehog or MarioKart, we would laugh as they’d gesture emphatically with their controller in an effort to assist whichever character they were controlling. As if Mario would jump higher if you thrust the controller upward at the moment of your jump…how silly!
Fast forward to now. All those amateur game maneuvers have become an essential part of playing many games on the wii. They’re putting wiis in nursing homes and these old people are digital bowling their liver-spotted heads off. Moms, sisters, girlfriends and wives are all waiting in line for their turn to play wii tennis.
But there’s more to the wii than just extreme overall likability. The wii and its components have huge potential for abilities beyond what they already can do. Thankfully, there are people who realize this and are doing their best to take advantage of it. Take, for example, Johnny Chung Lee. He’s put together a number of different projects using the Wii Remote. Here’s a quote from his website:
“[The Wii Remote] happens to be one of the most sophisticated [computer input devices in the world]. It contains a 1024×768 infrared camera with built-in hardware blob tracking of up to 4 points at 100Hz. This significantly out performs any PC “webcam” available today. It also contains a +/-3g 8-bit 3-axis accelerometer also operating at 100Hz and an [expansion] port for even more capability. These projects are an effort to explore and demonstrate applications that the millions of Wii Remotes in [the] world readily support.”
Here are his projects:
Tracking your fingers…think, Minority Report
Multi-Point Interactive Whiteboard
Headtracking (3-D)
World-Renowned Speed Eater- “Quick Lips” Lathan
In the hyper-competitive world of speed eating, it doesn’t get much better than this.
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