Apologies if repeat. I looked, didn't see anything, but I'm retarded sometimes.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/bryantpark/...nd_beasts.html
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10-11-2007, 04:51 PM #1
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Crazy "Sand Beast" wind-driven art monsters attack!
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10-11-2007, 05:09 PM #2
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Very cool. How awesome would it be if those things just randomly roamed the deserts of the world?
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10-11-2007, 05:31 PM #3
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Those are very cool living sculptures that guy is making. They are like very simple computers in some aspects. They know how to stay between the water and the dunes, and they know when its going to storm to hunker down and stay put.
Check this for more info
http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/162
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10-11-2007, 07:13 PM #4
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Cool. (But definitely "art lite", if art at all.)
"Active management in bear markets tends to outperform. Unfortunately, investors are not as elated with relative returns when they are negative. But it does support the argument that active management adds value." -- independent fund analyst Peter Loach
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10-11-2007, 07:57 PM #5
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Imagine what it would be like, having not seen this, to see one of this just cruising around the desert on its own.
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10-12-2007, 06:35 AM #6
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Originally Posted by leroy jenkins
That would be enough to get me to lay off the hard stuff.
"Those 1%ers are not an avaricious "them" but in reality the most entrepreneurial of "us". If we had more of them and fewer grandstanding politicians, we would all be better off."
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10-12-2007, 07:38 AM #7
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This is amazingly cool...I showed my kid and he loved it!
Thanks for posting it
Sprite"I call it reveling in natures finest element. Water in its pristine form. Straight from the heavens. We bathe in it, rejoicing in the fullest." --BZ
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10-12-2007, 11:07 AM #8
Your mom says hello
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Fixed it for you. Originally Posted by leroy jenkins
Try to keep two ideas in your head at the same time without blowing your brains out your ass.
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10-12-2007, 11:12 AM #9
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The bitch spins clockwise for Theo.
Life is not lift served.
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10-12-2007, 11:27 AM #10
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It begs the question: What do you consider "art?" Originally Posted by Cliff Huckable
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10-12-2007, 11:37 AM #11
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Indeed, please define 'art'. Originally Posted by Tippster
It's like a Bud Lite?
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10-12-2007, 03:02 PM #12
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Art is defineable only by the one perceiving the piece. Their is art in painting, music, even cooking and engineering; the latter being where I think these machines can be categorized - engineering art.
When I watched the vid, I was moved by the ingenuity and dedication involved in much the same way I am moved by a painting or photograph that would be considered art in a more traditional sense.
I think those machines are amazing, and beautiful in their own artistic sense. (However, they do not "know" how to stay away from waves. They are not sentient. Yet.
Try to keep two ideas in your head at the same time without blowing your brains out your ass.
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10-12-2007, 03:22 PM #13
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lolz Originally Posted by Hohes
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10-13-2007, 04:13 PM #14
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Good question. Originally Posted by Tippster
"Active management in bear markets tends to outperform. Unfortunately, investors are not as elated with relative returns when they are negative. But it does support the argument that active management adds value." -- independent fund analyst Peter Loach
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10-13-2007, 05:48 PM #15
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Sure it's art. Just like a 1947 Rolls Royce Silver Wraith could be considered art. It's also an engineering exercise.
And, it's damned cool to boot....Some will fall in love with life and drink it from a fountain that is pouring like an avalanche coming down the mountain...
"I enjoy skinny skiing, bullfights on acid..." - Lacy Underalls
The problems we face will not be solved by the minds that created them.
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