The "Autogene"

Started by TehBorken, Mar 02 06 02:23

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TehBorken

Very weird, but definitely cool to watch!
http://www.peter-william-holden.com/installations/autogene/autogene_mov.html
[h3]Autogene mechanical umbrella performance        [/h3]Installation artist Peter William Holden built a cool machine consisting of eight umbrellas that "dance" to "Singin' In The Rain." The video of the mechanical performance is terrific. From Holden's description of the work:[img]http://www.boingboing.net/images/umbrella.jpg" alt="Umbrella" align="left" border="1" height="200" hspace="4" vspace="4" width="287"] Busby Berkeley choreographed dancers to mimic the motions of machines and modern inventions. "AutoGene" is the flipside of this. It's a simple aesthetic looking robot composed of eight modified umbrellas mounted in a circular pattern. A cocktail of air hoses and electrical cables join these umbrellas to a central computer which enables "AutoGene" to produce a choreographed dance to music which replaces the machine's mechanical qualities and transforms the mundane umbrellas into near-magical animated objects.
[a href="http://www.peter-william-holden.com/installations/autogene/autogene_mov.html"]Watch  Autogene![/a]
The real trouble with reality is that there's no background music.

kitten

I went to that link but what I got was "The Heebie Jeebies Perilous Picnic".  Where did I go wrong?
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TehBorken

kitten wrote:
I went to that link but what I got was "[em]The Heebie Jeebies Perilous Picnic[/em]".  Where did I go wrong?

Hmmm, maybe you can't link directly to it. Try this link: [a href="http://www.peter-william-holden.com/installations/autogene/autogene.html"]http://www.peter-william-holden.com/installations/autogene/autogene.html[/a]

The real trouble with reality is that there's no background music.

Legion

[strong style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"]Error:[/b] Embedding [a style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);" href="http://www.archive.org/download/AutoGene/autogene_podcast.mov"]Autogene[/a] with the [a style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);" href="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/"]QuickTime Plug-in[/a] did not work.
curses!

TehBorken

Legion wrote:
[strong style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"]Error:[/b] emb edding [a style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);" href="http://www.archive.org/download/AutoGene/autogene_podcast.mov"]Autogene[/a] with the [a style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);" href="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/"]QuickTime Plug-in[/a] did not work.

Yup, allowing that would be a security hole, one that caused a little bit of grief here and a lot on DV. So, it's turned off to prevent a recurrance of that kind of exploit. If we allowed it, they'd exploit it and you'd get the millions of pop-up windows with Outlook sending email, etc etc. I wish I could allow it but it's not a safe thing to do because of malicious trolls.
The real trouble with reality is that there's no background music.

Witch

Worked for me, but it was too wierd to watch the whole thing.

Legion

It's weird, the [a href="http://www.peter-william-holden.com/installations/autogene/autogene.html"]http://www.peter-william-holden.com/installations/autogene/autogene.html[/a] link works in Firefox but the [a href="http://www.peter-william-holden.com/installations/autogene/autogene_mov.html"]http://www.peter-william-holden.com/installations/autogene/autogene_mov.html [/a]and the [a href="http://www.peter-william-holden.com/installations/autogene/autogene_mov.html"]Watch  Autogene![/a] links don't.

curses!

Legion

Doh! _mov indeed!

Fall on your face with those [a href="http://www.lyricsfreak.com/p/pixies/108978.html"]bad links[/a]...
curses!

Legion

Oops, please forgive me, that was no flame...
curses!

P.C.

LOL.....  I wish I could find an umbrella that could take that kind of abuse.
Sir Isaac Newton invented the swinging door....for the convenience of his cat.