It just keeps getting Better.

at Museum Of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Mon, 20 May 2013 20:11:55 -0400

at Museum Of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Found this in the seat pocket in front of me… hope it...

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 12:44:16 -0400

Found this in the seat pocket in front of me… hope it wasn’t important… or confidential. Anyways I just learned a lot about the company.

thatfunnyblog: Funny Stuff you like?

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 01:42:52 -0400

thatfunnyblog:

Funny Stuff you like?

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Sun, 14 Apr 2013 15:41:26 -0400

soundlyawake: I think Kmart just saved their company with one...

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 12:20:37 -0400

soundlyawake:

I think Kmart just saved their company with one commercial.

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Sat, 13 Apr 2013 13:03:50 -0400

I feel like a shady book deal is about to go down….

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 23:43:47 -0400

I feel like a shady book deal is about to go down….

ellipsisthegreat: You keep using that word, I don’t think you...

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 23:31:01 -0400

ellipsisthegreat:

You keep using that word, I don’t think you know what it means.

shawn hunter and cory matthews: the ship that ships itself.

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 23:04:28 -0400

shawn hunter and cory matthews: the ship that ships itself.

merfolkish: scifigrl47: omelaas: nachttour: newvagabond: max...

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 21:51:03 -0400

merfolkish:

scifigrl47:

omelaas:

nachttour:

newvagabond:

maxistentialist:

Tweenbots by Kacie Kinzer:

Given their extreme vulnerability, the vastness of city space, the dangers posed by traffic, suspicion of terrorism, and the possibility that no one would be interested in helping a lost little robot, I initially conceived the Tweenbots as disposable creatures which were more likely to struggle and die in the city than to reach their destination. Because I built them with minimal technology, I had no way of tracking the Tweenbot’s progress, and so I set out on the first test with a video camera hidden in my purse. I placed the Tweenbot down on the sidewalk, and walked far enough away that I would not be observed as the Tweenbot––a smiling 10-inch tall cardboard missionary––bumped along towards his inevitable fate.

The results were unexpected. Over the course of the following months, throughout numerous missions, the Tweenbots were successful in rolling from their start point to their far-away destination assisted only by strangers. Every time the robot got caught under a park bench, ground futilely against a curb, or became trapped in a pothole, some passerby would always rescue it and send it toward its goal. Never once was a Tweenbot lost or damaged. Often, people would ignore the instructions to aim the Tweenbot in the “right” direction, if that direction meant sending the robot into a perilous situation. One man turned the robot back in the direction from which it had just come, saying out loud to the Tweenbot, “You can’t go that way, it’s toward the road.”

The Tweenbot’s unexpected presence in the city created an unfolding narrative that spoke not simply to the vastness of city space and to the journey of a human-assisted robot, but also to the power of a simple technological object to create a complex network powered by human intelligence and asynchronous interactions. But of more interest to me, was the fact that this ad-hoc crowdsourcing was driven primarily by human empathy for an anthropomorphized object. The journey the Tweenbots take each time they are released in the city becomes a story of people’s willingness to engage with a creature that mirrors human characteristics of vulnerability, of being lost, and of having intention without the means of achieving its goal alone. As each encounter with a helpful pedestrian takes the robot one step closer to attaining it’s destination, the significance of our random discoveries and individual actions accumulates into a story about a vast space made small by an even smaller robot.

AwwWWWWWWAHHHHHHHHHHHH.

*weeps all over the place* I have robot feelings, okay?

Always reblog bot feels.

BOT FEEEEEEEELS

YOU CAN’T GO THAT WAY, IT’S TOWARDS THE ROAD

@DarrenCriss: Well that was fun and silly! 15 years in the...

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 20:34:23 -0400

@DarrenCriss: Well that was fun and silly! 15 years in the making, but mission accomplished: Got to sing with @Hansonmusic. Check that off the list.

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Mon, 08 Apr 2013 16:14:41 -0400

maisewilliams: liamdryden: italktosnakes: kateoplis: Netflix,...

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 00:44:30 -0400

maisewilliams:

liamdryden:

italktosnakes:

kateoplis:

Netflix, April 1st

The Internet is my favorite place on April 1st.

I did so well I got this awesome sticker! #justduckytours...

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 19:31:53 -0400

I did so well I got this awesome sticker! #justduckytours #pittsburgh

And there is this pretty awesome chica

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 18:46:27 -0400

And there is this pretty awesome chica

Fun times with my super cool cousin O!

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 17:51:04 -0400

Fun times with my super cool cousin O!

@cristinalacosa @xoqueenpea I feel this is incorrect.

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 16:14:27 -0400

@cristinalacosa @xoqueenpea I feel this is incorrect.

Dino Egg!

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 16:05:57 -0400

Dino Egg!

Coloring eggs with Grandma! #easter #fun #family

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 16:03:50 -0400

Coloring eggs with Grandma! #easter #fun #family

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Tue, 26 Mar 2013 01:12:40 -0400