Archive for 'Totally Whack'
The Improv Everywhere video from Design Indaba
Posted on 08. Mar, 2011 by Jonathan Cherry.
Newly released from Charlie Todd’s Improv Everywhere organisation is the ‘Museum Prank’.
The world premiere of it was at Design Indaba a couple of weeks ago – now live on the interwebs.
Elfoid: A humanoid mobile phone that’s hopefully a big joke
Posted on 04. Mar, 2011 by Jonathan Cherry.
Freaks
We have no idea whether this is for real or not, but all the same it’s the stuff of science fiction and cheese-induced nightmares.
Stop playing with the doll you sick, twisted freak
Robotics researchers from Osaka University have teamed up with NTT Docomo and Qualcomm to develop a handheld humanoid phone that brings a new dimension to mobile communications. A prototype of the device — called “Elfoid P1″ — was unveiled at a presentation in Tokyo on March 3.
The Elfoid phone is a miniature version of the Telenoid R1 robot developed last year by a research team led by Osaka University professor Hiroshi Ishiguro. The current prototype measures 20 centimeters (8 in) long, is covered in a soft fleshy urethane skin, and has the same genderless and ageless appearance as the Telenoid. The control buttons are embedded in the chest, which glows green when the Elfoid is in use. [via]
Trussssssst in meeeeeee!
More thoroughly disturbing pictures from the future here.
Water city
Posted on 01. Mar, 2011 by Jonathan Cherry.
This video is like Merlot for your eyes. Smooth and soft with no real purpose, but you like how it makes you feel.
[thanks Luka]
Are your limitations real?
Posted on 28. Feb, 2011 by Jonathan Cherry.
Older people are very fond of ‘knowing their limitations’ – a concepts that very young people have no knowledge of.
So where do these limitations come from? Are they real – or a direct result of the social programming that we are constantly subjected to?
Perhaps our ability to truely innovate is really just a state of mind. Think ‘out of the box’ – only if you believe ‘the box’ to exist in the first place.
Coke own the emotion of happiness in Brazil
Posted on 23. Feb, 2011 by Jonathan Cherry.
Seriously – have a look at how unhappy and miserable these Brazilian city dwellers were before the Coke van arrived and their complete sense of community and elation after they get a free hit of Coke.
Even a free surfboard doesn’t seem to have as much of a positive result as a free drink.
[Thanks Andrew]
[Yawn] Riots and riot police – still very hot
Posted on 16. Feb, 2011 by Jonathan Cherry.
Does anyone else notice that riots and riot police have been a hot theme for the music industry for some time now. Rihanna, Beyonce, Kerli, Lady Gaga and others have been pushing that agenda for a while.
In the last couple of days, Muse performed Uprising with strong riot undertones at the Grammy’s and Take That rocked the Brits with their riot police for their song Kidz. [BTW - Simon Cowell reported didn't allow Take That to perform that exact show on the X Factor because of the riot police theme].
So what’s the big attraction to revolution? Stylists just looking for a hook or is there another agenda that’s being pushed here?
Was this theme a prelude to the student demonstrations in the UK last year and the uprisings in the Middle East this year – or in some way a catalyst for the intensification of revolutionary activity.
The conspiracy theorists have their views, which you can choose to subscribe to or not, but why all the military gear? Is anarchy cool again? Is punk set to be making a comeback? Bring back the Sex Pistols?
Is it art imitating reality – or dictating a response to your supposed reality. Sex and guns – awesome!
Get used to the sight of riot police – they don’t seem to be going anywhere.
New innovation in the field of torture
Posted on 08. Feb, 2011 by Jonathan Cherry.
On the surface of it – the shaving helmet can be seen as a quick way for skinheads to make sure they are never mistaken for their head haired brethren. In just 24 seconds it’ll remove every hair on your head. Impressive.
In Egypt it’s perhaps being considered for a recalibration to be used by police to make sure that those testy pro-democracy people diminish in number over time. Either way, it’s dodgy.
Friday Movie: Nothing is original – Everything is a Remix
Posted on 04. Feb, 2011 by Jonathan Cherry.
Originality is commercially overrated.
See Part One here
Inside Job: The story of how banks screwed the world
Posted on 02. Feb, 2011 by Jonathan Cherry.
What do you call 1000 lawyers marketers bankers at the bottom of the ocean? A good start.
That’s how we would have started this movie promo. But it’s an old joke – and the global economic meltdown isn’t. But when all has been forgotten, human nature dictates that those that can feed our need for greed will always be welcomed back into the fold eventually.
So don’t worry bankers – you’ll be able to take that Bugatti Veyron out of the garage real soon. Just hang in there a bit.
We’ve posted about this movie before, so hopefully it gets here soon so that we can go see it and stop staring at the trailer.
Mark Visser surfs a 30 foot wave – at night
Posted on 24. Jan, 2011 by Jonathan Cherry.
Surfing at night – while wearing a vest covered in LEDs is an unusual thing to do. Doing that on top of a 30 foot wall of liquid hell is another thing all together. Here Mark Visser does just that.
“Riding in complete darkness meant I had to go off feeling,” says Visser. “I had to zone out from how you normally ride and just be a part of the wave. I am so pumped to achieve something that no one thought possible and that I was told couldn’t be done.” Watch a a video of his ride.
It looks like animation, but it’s not. See more here and here.
