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Saturday, April 19, 2025
Metamorphosis
Dog Does His Duty
Lusy Imbergerova and and her dog Deril perform canine freestyle at the FCI Dog Dance World Championship 2016. This routine is not so much dance as it is a military drama. Deril works out, goes on patrol, and even saves Lusy's life before it's over! That's a good dog.
Friday, April 18, 2025
How Insects Walk on Water
There are certain species of insects that can walk on the surface of water. They've found their ecological niche because there are other species that don't have the same talents, and they can be food. These insects use several different methods of moving on water: walking, rowing, jumping, surfing, and even a sort of jet propulsion. They've developed technique and even specialized body parts to harness the science of fluid dynamics, meaning surface tension and capillary action, to out-maneuver whatever it is they want to eat. Yeah, that's plenty of science to interest you, but this is also a True Facts video, so you get Ze Frank cracking jokes and making fun of these talented little creatures. There's a 65-second skippable ad at 4:56.
5 Lego Walkers vs. 7 Obstacles
How many legs must a robot have to navigate over various obstacles in the terrain? Or does it really matter? Maybe the type of feet matter more than the number of legs. Or maybe the size of those feet are key. The Brick Experiment Channel built five different types of walking machines out of LEGO blocks and pieces, and then subjected each of them to seven different obstacles to see which design worked best. None of them had an easy time. Well, one did, but I won't tell you because this is a competition on video, and you may get really invested in your favorite walker robot. I will go as far as to express sympathy for the "simple 2-legged walker" because that little guy has no talent for walking whatsoever and no clue going into an obstacle. Yes, it's okay to laugh at a machine that doesn't work properly. (via Metafilter)
Chad Gadya in Embroidery
Chad Gadya is a traditional Passover song (lyrics here). Nina Paley and Theodore Gray animated it using embroidery on matzoh covers, a process Paley calls “embroidermation.” She also calls it “Our most ridiculously labor-intensive animation ever!” I can see that.
Each embroidered matzoh cover, used in zoetrope fashion, provides six frames of animation. Gray explains the process of creating the video here. Not only did they have to embroider hundreds of characters, but create custom software, too!
This video is a part of Paley’s ongoing feature film project Seder-Masochism. She says Chad Gadya will serve as an intermission in the story. (via Metafilter)
Thursday, April 17, 2025
DragulAPT.
DJ Cummerbund went a little crazy when he mashed up the song "APT." by ROSÉ & Bruno Mars and "Dragula" by Rob Zombie. About a dozen other musical artists got caught up in the mix. They are listed at the YouTube page. (via b3ta)
Jožin z bažin
Jožin z bažin is a song written by Czech musician and comedian Ivan Mládek and recorded by his group, Banjo Band, in 1977. The lyrics:
Joe from the swamps I'm going to camp to Orava with my Skoda 100(via Everlasting Blort)
I'm in a hurry so I risk, I'm going through Moravia
That ghost rages there, stands out from the swamps
It eats mostly Praguers,
his name is Joe Joe from the swamps, crawling through the swamp
Joe from the swamps, approaching the village
Joe from the swamps, has a grudge against
Joe from the swamps, bites, suck and choke
Only one thing could work who would think...a powdering aircraft
I was driving through a village on my way to Vizovice
The chairman welcomes me, talk to me with slivovice
If somebody brings here Joe, alive or dead I will give him my daughter and a half of JZD
Joe from the swamps, crawling through the swamp
Joe from the swamps, approaching the village
Joe from the swamps, has a grudge against
Joe from the swamps, bites, suck and choke
I say, hey chairman, give me an aircraft and powder
I will bring Joe to you, I don't see any problems
Chairman agreed and I raise in the morning
And powder from aircraft covered Joe Joe from the swamps, he is all white-covered
Joe from swamps runs out from mud
Joe from swamps hits by a rock
Joe from swamps, it is all over now
I catch him up, I'm holding him, yahooooo every money is good,
I sell him to ZOO
What If The Sun Went Dark?
The What If? series from Randall Munroe and Henry Reich seeks to give serious answers to ridiculous theoretical questions. The most common question they receive, over and over, is what would happen if the sun went out? This is also a common question outside of the series, too. What they are actually asking is how long would it be before we all froze to death. The answer varies, because humans know how to keep warm up to a point. But we would lose our light, our food supplies, and pretty soon our orbit. Since those scenarios have been addressed all around the internet, Munroe and Reich decided to look at the bright side, as if there is one. The lack of a sun would actually solve some problems we have here on earth. Not that any of that makes up for freezing to death, but here you are with a list of benefits from the sun ceasing to burn.
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
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