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Wow! That takes me back; my father bought us the blue and the brown robots, on the 2nd row, in London in 1970.
You could pose the arms with satisfying clicks. With AA batteries in their legs they buzzed along on rubber caterpillar tracks, lights flashing!
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For the record...yes they do make tin robots today. Although they're most likely made in China and considered "adult collectibles not suitable for young children".
In fact, in that first group of tin robot pictures in the bottom left corner is an gray R-1 robot produced about 10 years ago by Rocket USA. They still make versions of it today.
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And the one on the middle at the top may very well be the inspirations for the "aliens" from the manga/anime Pani Poni
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Hey, this Zerak robot (the blue one) has the same problem as mine; his pants fall down! Compare him to the box art!
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Fun post!
The "Space Crawler" is a GI Joe accessory. I had one and it was very cool. It went with a "moon base". I have no idea what happened to it.
I had a little blue plastic robot that with arms that swung around. It came to a spectacular, pyromaniacal end when I grew tired of it.
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If you like robots AND DONUTS, check out the art work of Eric Joyner (http://www.ericjoyner.com/) - he paints excellent toy robots being perturbed by donuts, often of giant proportions. Two great tastes that taste great together.
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Actually the space crawler is a 1960's Matt Mason toy, from Mattel.
Look it up, I had one as a kid a looooong time ago.
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in the picture
"Goodwin Museum Toy Robot Collection:"
You can see the robot Gort ( http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/The-Day-the-Earth-Stood-Still-757302.jpg) from the movie "the day the earth stood still"
Brilliant movie by the way.
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The five Dinky toys are of course all from Gerry Anderson series: UFO, Thunderbirds and Joe 90.
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I have a CBS Toy Maxx Steele Robot I would like to sell (good working condition). Anyone interested?
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The helicopter is a stock Boeing CH-47 Chinook transport helicopter, nothing fancy about it.
Any helicopter - and anything flying - is able to do that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CH-47_Chinook
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It really all depends of the skills of the pilots.
Many say it's theoretically imposssible, , but with enough speed, height and guts a good pilot can actuaaly make loopings with a chopper.
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Got to click on that cosmonaut photo and see the whole set. One question though, did they bring the rocking chair into space with them and if so, why? If they didn't, and it was supplied by the chase team, you have to wonder, why bring a rocking chair to a ballistic reentry party, and 2, you bring a rocking chair but not a stretcher to get the 'naut onto the helo? The whole photo set just screams Estes backyard rocketry.
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In the new color railgun picture, that's Hitler 2nd from the right. I recognized his red colored hatband. Standing to his right is Albert Speer, wearing the "Organization Todt" armband.
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I guess they're taking anti-flea baths. Or being part of some crazy sort of body-cleansing experiment during the war?
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That last link isn't to an animation about peace, it's to a video of car crashes... :P?
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Link fixed, thank you Elliot
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Lions pictures are from South Africa. It could be the Lions Park next to Johannesburg.
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I think the lions are getting a little tired of tourists wandering through being nuisances? Or maybe they just like biting things.
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The lion pics are indeed from south africa. See "ZA" sticker on back of the defender - symbol for South Africa, from old Dutch: Zuid Afrika.
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Hard to choose this time ;-)..my fav is #13, the unexpected evil child. I'm wondering if it's the mother who's sitting in front and if it was her taking the picture..scary!
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Very nice!
The one with the dude with the axe is the best.
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I mean number 8!
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Yeah number 8 for me too.
Although it's not a axe but a machete
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The face of the number eight is terrible :-)
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2 things for you Avi, no. 9 is the British "celebrity" Pete Doherty who, I shall say, was like that 24/7 until he had an implant put in his head.
2nd thing being that the CHINS idea originated on the BBC comedy series Red Dwarf.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Dwarf
for more info on Red Dwarf.
http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/guide/index.cfm?sectionID=episodes&seriesID=6&subsectionID=gunmenoftheapocalypse
for more info on the episode.
The fat guy with the machete was the best.
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Think I am gonna have to go with 12
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Thank you Will - great info. It must be fun to be Pete Doherty.
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I'd say the Karamazov Bros' on #16 are a close call to the #3 girl whi(t)ch I'll have to go with. Boy she's ugly !
:-))) My word verification is : milfdisr...
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Sorry folks. I can't see any that are "ugly". They are pictures of ordinary people either making faces (1 or 4) or having their faces warped in some way (6 or 38). There are old people(14 & 19), but they are OLD not ugly. There are the grotesque (20 & 34) and the photoshopped (45 etc). You have the old 'face-on-a-chin' trick (46) and the obligatory 'political-candidate-caught-with-stupid-face' category (28). My favourite would be 47 which is real cute.
The face I would least like to see close up would have to be #20.
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#13, but only for the kid in the back seat. If you are not permitted to separate photo subjects, then #37--at least he was probably unstaged.
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#14 and #19 are really cool but #8's probably gonna give me nightmares
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the 14th looks like monkey ))
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#14 is a raisin, not a human.
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# 8 is scary.
But the evil child is awesome.
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These are priceless!
www.wannasmile.com
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lol, classic, I recognize the cars in 15. it's from Johannesburg (now Gauteng) in South Africa.
and WTF? once again, things that connot be explained.....
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I think that 19 looks like amy winehouse
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Number 3 is a natural.
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no. 16: Children of the Damned - the return?
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19!
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8, 12 & 13 have utterly freaked me out, I mean children are spooky most of the time anyway..and men with weapons look indestructible at the best of times... but when a freaky looking fella carrying a machete, who looks like he's from the eerie, totally uncomfortable film "the hills have eyes"... and children who look like they're just about to eat you... starting with your face,... well, that's just plain wrong!!! Where's my mum!!! I want my mum! I'm scared!!!
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What a terrible faces, if I see this face in my dream I will mess up :d
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Excellent Post...Some really crazy crazy faces
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#14! Hands DOWN! I LOVE her face. And she still wants to be a princess. Love it!
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#8 Comical, unusual, weird, odd, unique....none of these things are ugly to me. Evil is ugly...and #8 looks like pure evil.
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Will, the upside down chins was used on Red Dwarf, but it predates that by a LONG shot. I saw it in a book dating back decades, described as an amusing act to entertain friends.
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#8, he looks TOO real :O
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# 45 is the most hilaroius picture I have ever seen
my friends and i cant stop laughing every time we see it
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I love #13. I mean, maybe love isn't the right word.. it's actually pretty scary. You wonder how something so cute can turn out so awful...haha
-Sylvia
Barbecue Smokers
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# 12 with the little girl was the creepiest. She looked like she murdered someone.
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I found the portable rain covering hilarious because I have actually saw someone using something similar once and I figured they were either a bit mental or extremely neurotic. I found a picture online:
http://www.allpics4u.com/artwork/creativity-stuff-all-around-us.html
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Very beautiful stuff... I was always intrigued by patterns in the smoke from a candle or a cigarette as a child... lol
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lovely gallery, but I thought I'd point out that I don't think the 'crown' of smoke is actually smoke. I'm fairly sure that I saw the image on DeviantArt and that the photographer explained that it was a drop of milk in a glass of water.
Just thought you might like to know ^^
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very beautiful, i've always been entranced by watching smoke, as well
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Original and interesting art form
dugg!
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Wow, that is some pretty amazing stuff!
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@Anonymous:
The caption clearly states that the image to which you refer is made with milk and water.
Read before you dis.
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Incense doesn't create colored smoke, at least not to the extent to which its depicted here. The coloring is done afterwards in photoshop.
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To Anonymous #6 referring to Anonymous #2: I'm pretty sure DRB added that "milk in water" caption AFTER Anonymous #2 pointed it out.
Think before you dis.
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These pictures are fantastic!
Thanks!
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Photoshop anyone? At least for some of the pictures its clearly obvious.
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This site is very nice.Pictures are extraordinary.It clearly explains about the implications of smoke.
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Those are absolutely fabulous! It makes me want to go out and experiment.
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I have been doing this awhile. All natural smoke, no digital effects. Check out my Gallery at: www.smokeart.org
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really cool stuff... certainly gets the imagination going
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utterly beautiful!
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Love the bird print! Do you sell these?
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the link for the Rubik's bra is http://xkcd.com/457/ for the record
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Thank you Emily
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The 'Quantum Jump' picture is an ad for the Portal game...
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This is the best blog i've seen so far!Can i get a link on your website!
I have similair things on my blog.
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The Wanderman photograph is of this area: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=34.960106,-103.326931&spn=0.105092,0.219727&t=h&z=13
Google Maps is a great way to waste time, as always.
(For more fun:
Nuclear Craters in the Nevada Test Site.)
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The address for the 'quantum jump' picture is from SomethingAwful's Photoshop Phriday for the game 'Portal'. Afraid I can't find the link, though.
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Good morning, I would like to inform that the author of the pic of the old guy on the tank is: http://jr-art.net/
By the way, amazing blog you have.
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Thank you for all the info. Post updated.
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You can also see Jeremy Clarkson's documentary movie about Brunel ( and the "Great Eastern") on youtube. Keywords- Clarkson Brunel.
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I think I read somewhere that the ship also had a huge ballroom that was gimbled to always stay level even in rough seas. However, it ended up lurching around so much that the ended up locking it into place...
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Brunel's "atmospheric railway" (the one in Devon) failed because he couldn't seal the slot along the tube. Rubber wasn't available at that time so the seal was made of leather. When the iron tube rusted in the damp air, the iron reacted with the tannin in the leather and destroyed the seal. But in the brief time it worked, apparently it worked quite nicely. (Source: Routledge, R, "Discoveries and Inventions of the 19th Century)
The same book also has an item on the Crystal Palace atmospheric passenger railway, or "shuttle" as we would call it today, though it claims the tube was under Hyde Park, not in Sydenham where the Crystal Palace ended up.
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Thank you guys for great info. Jeremy Clarkson link was especially entertaining.
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Really enjoyed this piece... I was surprised though, that there was no mention of his broad gauge Great Western Railway. Brunel also made plans for an above ground pneumatic railroad. Compressed air was to be carried beneath the railbed in leather tubes. A piston attached to the railway carriages would then fit into this tube, much in the manner that a cable car has a grip that reaches below the rails, and engages the cable. The problem with this scheme it that the leather tube was not sufficiently airtight to be effective. If Brunel had access to todays modern materials, maybe he could have pulled it off.
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Great read!
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Avi, thanks for all your effort in producing Dark Roasted, it's always full of fascinating things and great pictures, I hope you keep on doing this.
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Oh, and, by the way... Brunel's atmospheric railway, a further problem with the leather seals was the fact that they had to be kept lubricated in order to remain flexible and seal well, this was done with animal derived greases, which led to them being an irresistable target for rats. Failure of the vacuum seal stopped the train, so although the concept was viable, the system failed due to the lack of a suitable flexible sealing material.
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Soubriquet - thank you for good words; you're welcome to submit similar articles, if you want.
As for unrealized atmospheric railway - RATS!..
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Another unusual pneumatic railway was trialled by a man called Alfred Beach, in New York, 1870.
An article on it can be seen
here, and a series of better pictures are viewable
here.
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Brunel was one of, if not the best British engineer. Many of his designs are still in existence today. If he had his way the gauge of railways would have been wider, that's what he planned for the Great Western Railway. Also on the GWR, over the river Thames is a flat arched bridge which nobody thought could be built.
On a related note I live about 1/4 mile from where the Great Eastern was built and some of the slipway still remains.
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The ship was built that size for an interesting reason. Early steamships needed sails because they couldn't carry enough fuel to cross the Atlantic by steam alone. Brunel had the insight to see that there was a scaling law at work.
Specifically, the cargo capacity of an iron steamship goes up as the volume, but the horsepower required goes up much more slowly. So there was is a size such that the ship could steam the whole way from London to New York.
Brunel didn't just realize that a big ship could be built (and could be safe). He also realized that big ships were needed, a point that no one else saw.
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The painted cubes is a work of Agustín Ibarrola, a basque artist.It called "Los cubos de la memória" (The memory cubes)and is placed at the village of Llanes (Asturias)
If you're wondering, the Pininfarina concept pictured is a Ferrari 206 S Dino Berlinetta Competizione. It's based on a prototype racer chassis. More info here (as well as a comment from the current owner): http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/car/3713/Ferrari-206-S-Dino-Berlinetta-Competizione.html
Alvarhillo, are you 100% sure ? I would also say it's in the Basque Country but in the north, in France, in Socoa.
http://maps.google.fr/?ie=UTF8&ll=43.396956,-1.677099&spn=0.006018,0.013947&t=h&z=17
Maybe it's two different works by the same people.
Yes I´m sure. You can look here.
http://www.desdeasturias.com/asturiasbasica/rutas.asp?idruta=3
http://www.llanesnet.com/loscubosdelamemoria/fotografias.htm
@ alvarhillo
Yes, I confirm : it is the rompeolas from the small puerto de Llanes, a very very nice place to visit.
http://www.ojodigital.com/foro/concursos-de-ojodigital/110700-ganadores-concurso-llanes-con-mucho-ojo-2006-a.html
"Esto ye Asturies" !!!
The picture "from some B-Movie" is from Gog (1954)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047033/
I saw it a long time ago, it really is a prototype for 50s b-movies: robots, russian spies and silly science.
Great info, thank you... page updated!
hee thanks for the info, really great help
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