Category Archives: Video

tattoo

Part two of a series of short films from Thinkhouse that examines youth cultures across Ireland.

This week; carving phat ones on your BODY.

James writes:

“We turned our cameras on some of Ireland’s best known tattoo artists – and those whose bodies exhibit their work – to analyse Ireland’s changing tattoo culture.

Skin Deep explores the history and future of tattoo culture with artists from Dublin Ink, Spilled Ink and Dragon Tattoo.”

 

Via Thinkhouse

rdj
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy2-B4Wl8WI

RDJ guests at Sting’s 60th birthday party at New York’s Beacon Theatre in 2011, performing lead vocal on ‘Driven to Tears’.

Fair set of pipes on the Downey, in fairness.

22words

robot

Of this ultra fast robot he spotted at a 2010 competitive robotics event in Osaka, Japan, robotics dude Drew Noakes sez:

This machine was mind-blowingly fast and precise. Unforutunately for me, the guys demoing it barely spoke English, so I didn’t get much info on it other than it’s intended for use in positioning surface mount devices on printed circuit boards (SMD on PCB) during manufacture.

awesomer

beartree

As part of an ongoing research project into the behaviour of bears in Alberta’s Kananaskis Country, a camera was set up during May and June of this year to take pictures every few seconds of a tree popular among the local ursine community.

And here’s the soundtrack they should have used.

22words/presurfer