Behind the Scenes: Ron Mueck

Ron Mueck is an artist. A very creepy artist. Here’s a small collection of pix of some of his installations.

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Nadia Montage

Here’s another video of Nadia edited for those with short-attention spans:

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The Wave Machine

The Wave Machine on Break.com. Really cool video, especially the ending.

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Jim Gaffigan – Hot Pockets

I like this guy because he’s funny. I’m hungry for Hot Pockets.

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Social Experimenting with the Worst Pickup Lines Ever

This is a viral video floating about the interweb right now about some dude that uses some lame-ass pickup lines on chicks. This video serves as proof that there is hope even for a nerd like me.

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The Goldberg Variations

This is Glenn Gould playing Bach’s Goldberg Variations. At the risk of sounding pretentious, I admit that I have grown to enjoy and appreciate this group of works. I was thrilled to find this video on Google.

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The Real Fake News

O’Reilly is a jerk and Colbert is funny. Here two clips with Stephen Colbert on The O’Reilly Factor and Bill O’Reilly on the Colbert Report:

- Colbert on O’Reilly: Link

- O’Reilly on Colbert: Link

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UFO Documented

Do you believe in UFO’s?

Mission Control, please be informed, there is a Santa Claus.— James Lovell, Apollo 8 Commander, 1968. He made this transmission after coming around the far side of the Moon on the Apollo 8 mission. Although it was Christmas time, this statement has caused considerable controversy as “Santa Claus” was supposedly a codeword used to indicate a UFO or other unusual sighting.

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Galileo Experiment on the Moon

This video clip is definitely worth viewing if you haven’t seen it already. It shows an experiment made by Apollo XV astronaut David Scott, concluding that Galileo was right. Objects fall at the same rate of speed in a complete vacuum due to the specific weight of gravity and the lack of atmospheric friction. Since the moon is in a vacuum of space, a feather and a hammer fall at the same rate of speed (the feather drops like a rock).

I’m not a “moon conspiracy theorist.” I believe what the American government tells me and if they said they went to the moon, then they defied all the odds and went to the moon. I’m not even going to ask the obvious question, “So you went all the way to the moon to drop a feather and a hammer, but you didn’t bother to take a picture of the stars?”

My question is this, after viewing the video: If the falcon feather drops as fast as the hammer, then why did the astronauts need so much weight to keep them from flying into space? Why did they bounce when they walked even though they were weighed down? Since the feather fell straight to the ground as it should in a vacuum, shouldn’t the astronauts adhere the same way without the use of the additional weights?

Can someone set me straight on this?

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A Tribute to Bogie

Ursi did a very nice tribute to Humphrey Bogart. This is just one of the clips:

Link to Ursi’s Blog.