Real Live Rube Goldberg
You remember Wile E Coyote, right? With all his crazy inventions to try and catch the Roadrunner (Tom and Jerry were great for these as well). At any rate, there's actually a name for these things - they're called Rube Goldberg devices. Seems that Rube was a cartoonist. But the devices can actually be made for real. Here are a couple of examples to illustrate.
The first one (above) is made out of stuff you'd find in a forest. The second one illustrates how you can use a car to start a car (the Honda Cog). And both are simply amazing. These are real - they were photo-shopped or CGI'd. They were filmed in realtime, cameras rolling, and they show what a little creativity can do (I suppose you could think of this as rock-balancing-in-motion). I can't wait to see my kids run wild with this one...
posted by Pilgrim in Progress @ 7:46 AM
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Hmm... not sure about the Honda one. You sure that's not CGI?
No computer can generate this kind of corniness though...
According to the Wikipedia article Cogs (television commercial), the commercial is for real (well, almost) - it was made in 2 takes (since you couldn't get the whole thing in one room. And CGI was only used for lighting adjustment.
And as for that David Hasselhof link... all I can say is WOW. I am speechless. What kind of sick, warped person goes to the time and effort to make something like this anyway? Wow. :-)
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