Total madness

[Guest]

Apologies if you've seen this before - if not, it should brighten up your Saturday. A friend sent it from Spain. I watched in disbelief.

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=qybUFnY7Y8w

[DracoM]

Incredible!!

[johncorrigan]

Most enjoyable Richard....had me thinking of this old class act.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iP8WjXE3FU

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

wonderful!

[Stunsworth]

Thank you very, very, much

[Lateralthinking1]

Excellent. I understand that it is by OK Go and is from the cd "Of the Blue Colour of the Sky". The machines are based on those by the late Rube Goldberg - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg_machine.

Here is info on how they were built - http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/...rube-goldberg/

The album is described as:

"a concept based on an unnamed passage from The Influence of the Blue Ray of the Sunlight and of the Blue Colour of the Sky by General A.J. Pleasonton. The title of this book, proposing that blue is the essential life force, was adapted for the album because of the parallels between Pleasonton's faith in the color blue and faith in the music that Kulash, the primary songwriter for the album, has arising from him organically without rational thought. Elements of the accompanying booklet compare the lyrics with the passage, with data gathered from the characteristics of the texts presented by different graphical means.

The image on the album cover was constructed with a list of twenty-five themes (for example "Unfounded or Wildly Broad Claims", "Wonderment", and "Light/Optics/Color"), each representing a specific color, assigned to each sentence in both the passage and the lyrics. If more than one theme is assigned to the same sentence, the colors are combined with additive mixing. With each sentence being represented by a colored line, the lines are arranged radially giving the impression of beams of multicolored light emanating from the center. Other data collected for presentation inside the booklet includes sentence length, parts of speech occurrences, syllable stress, and words common to both texts".