Date: 2007-06-01 05:07 pm (UTC)

Date: 2007-06-01 05:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sistercoyote.livejournal.com
That was all kinds of awesome...and also proof that some people have waay too much time on their hands.

Date: 2007-06-01 07:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bastette-joyce.livejournal.com
My thoughts exactly! Just think of how much time and mental effort went into designing it, and the physical effort of building it, rehearsing each part, and then filming it?

Date: 2007-06-01 06:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stonebender.livejournal.com
That is mind boggling! There were so many places that could've gone wrong. I wonder how many times they ran it before everything did what it was supposed to do?

Date: 2007-06-01 06:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] serenejournal.livejournal.com
I suspect that some of the camera cuts mean it didn't actually all go right at once.

Date: 2007-06-01 06:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] juliansinger.livejournal.com
I was wondering that. I saw another Rube Goldbergian device awhile back that had no camera cuts; this one jumped several times, and also there were a couple of moments where the specific action was obscured.

Date: 2007-06-01 07:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stonebender.livejournal.com
I suspect that some of the camera cuts mean it didn't actually all go right at once.

Well yeah there is that, but still even getting some of those sections to do everything they were supposed to do is pretty amazing.

Date: 2007-06-01 09:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hnybny.livejournal.com
I agree, so many things that could have gone totally wrong.

Date: 2007-06-01 06:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] epi-lj.livejournal.com
I think that the one thing that could have improved it would have been if they'd have designed it to be reproducable without a manual reset / replacement of any parts.

Date: 2007-06-01 07:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hitchhiker.livejournal.com
awesome it is :) the chess endgame was particularly brilliant

Date: 2007-06-01 07:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bastette-joyce.livejournal.com
How did that work, anyway? Magnets underneath the board?

Date: 2007-06-01 10:11 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)

My guess is that it's a computer chess board which is programmable: set the board up, put the board into computer-vs-computer mode and let it play out the endgame at the press of a button.

Date: 2007-06-01 10:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] serenejournal.livejournal.com
My guess is that that's [livejournal.com profile] nooks, because he's the only commenter I know who uses <p> tags. ;-)

Date: 2007-06-01 07:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bastette-joyce.livejournal.com
Ooooo, my kitties would love that!

Date: 2007-06-01 09:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tom-allen.livejournal.com
Some people have way too much freakin' time on their hands.

Awesome

Date: 2007-06-01 10:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dawnd.livejournal.com
Rube would be so proud.

Date: 2007-06-01 10:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wtfpotatoes.livejournal.com
I loved it! That was so awesome.
Most likely if I tried to do that it would fall down every other obstacle part I put up, then i'd never get finished. ;_;

Date: 2007-06-01 10:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] serenejournal.livejournal.com
I know what you mean, but it makes me want to try to design something like this. Maybe next time you visit, we can invite some people over and try to set something up. I totally love the idea!

Date: 2007-06-02 04:02 am (UTC)

Date: 2007-06-03 01:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bratman.livejournal.com
It's like one huge life-size game of mousetrap.

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