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Sunday, 26 December 2010

Monday, 20 December 2010

Trololo Man vs Focus - Hocus Pocus

FOCUS - Hocus Pocus (1972 UK TV Appearance)

I couldn't find the previous Trololo Man post (Skinflaps, as this you?)

Monday, 13 December 2010

Big Dog Mk I - Horse Of Steel Runs Across Fields (Apr, 1933)




A MECHANICAL horse that trots and gallops on steel-pipe legs, under the impulse of a gasoline engine, is the recent product of an Italian inventor. With this horse, he declares, children may be trained to ride. The iron Dobbin is said to canter along a road or across a rough field with equal ease. Its design recalls the attempts of inventors, before the days of the automobile, to imitate nature and produce a mechanical steed capable of drawing a wagon.

Shark Octopus Undersea Battle Filmed (Jul, 1933)
A most remarkable battle between a shark and an octopus has been photographed by a daring cameraman for the film, “Samarang”(Out of the Deep). With his camera and equipment inside a diving bell, open at the bottom, the internal air pressure being sufficient to keep the water out at shallow depths, he placed a piece of meat in the water to attract the shark, the octopus already being in the vicinity. The battle which ensued between shark and octopus lasted twenty minutes, but it was quite one-sided. The shark swung into attack from below, as shown in one of the pictures, getting a death grip which is never relinquished until the helpless victim succumbs. The shark was of the tiger variety. The battle was staged in comparatively shallow water to allow of sufficient light for recording the extraordinary scenes. The battle winds up with the shark dining off one of the tentacles of his foe.





From http://www.stellasmagazine.com/totally-unnecessary-inventionsssss/

Clive Thompson on Coding for the Masses | Magazine

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