Oblique Observations: May 2009

Friday, May 15, 2009

Thursday, May 14, 2009

ACE, Autonomous City Explorer, isn't really a detective, it's... well, a city explorer, but a different sort of city explorer from this guy
When picturing a robot rolling around Munich for five hours asking for directions my imagination can't help but add a trench coat, fedora, and world-weary face with a cigarette hanging from it.
The true test for this robot is when they build another one and have the two search for each other.

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Inside the Machine

A few more images for you:

Monday, May 11, 2009

Preproduction_Crisis

Some of you have been subjected to the prototype of Causality_Crisis.
Having learned from your trials, criticisms, and reactions I've begun to craft the followup.
Here are some images for you:

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Chevron Lives Again!

Spent most of the day dodging real work and messing around with the projector instead.
This has yielded positive results... in the sense that it is now working, not in the sense that I've dedicated an entire day to an obsolete medium.

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Promaster 521 TL & Kodak Chevron 8

Went to Goodwill yesterday.
Made the purchase of an 8mm film camera and projector, neither of which work.

Now to try to fix them.

Google is...

Lately I've obsessed myself with attempts at getting a better hold on what the Internet is thinking.
One of the more amusing attempts came from a google screenshot someone showed me displaying the search results for the phrase "Chinese people are..."

Taking it a step further I made my own collection of screenshots from google involving the intimate and unprincipled relationships of human dichotomy.

Three of my favorites so far:
Men are like waffles women are like spaghetti
Young people are no longer interested in buying newspapers or magazines in print format...
Fat people are harder to kidnap

Men are...