Category Archives: Video

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The DARPA Robotics Challenge, set up after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, aims to ‘accelerate the development of robots that can respond to man-made or natural disasters’.

This year,  a transforming Korean bot won the $2 million prize.

Hurray!

Now here’s a montage of the robots that fell over.

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A demonstration (filmed last December) of the ‘laser-art’ system at LasX Industries in Minnesota.

Drawing at a rate of 6 metres per second. an illustration is etched into a chalkboard surface  in two stages: first raster mode (like an inkjet printer) and then, at about 1.40, vector mode.

You’ll like vector mode.

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Director Jonathan Chong of Dropbear recommissions 240 audio cassettes, 1700m of video tape, 108 floppy discs and an old  Walkman in a stop motion video for Australian DJ Opiuo’s Quack Fat (from the album Meraki).

Proper old school.

Making-of featurette here.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UPGRwMgJ3k

Cookie Monster covers Busta Rhymes’ ‘Gimme Some More’ thanks to some nifty editing by visual artist Benjamin ‘Animal Robot’ Roberts.

Now try Big Bird singing Big Pun’s ‘Still Not A Player’.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG9wGUvw0MQ

Editor Jacob T Swinney sez:

Many filmmakers pay homage to other films, but Tarantino takes things a step further by replicating exact moments from a variety of genres and smashing them together to create his own distinct vision.

Previously: The Blood Of Tarantino

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