Rockets have been in the news a bit recently. Not the first one, the v2 has been out of action a while now. The words “Chuck you’ve been selected for V2 related duties…” most likely turned a man’s knees to water.

This home made Saturn V replica however works a treat!

A rocket inspired tune to play out on…

Flying penguin robots kick in at about 1.oo minute mark. Excellent robots throughout.

Machines that Almost Fall Over from Michael Kontopoulos on Vimeo.

Armstead Snow Motors from Seeking Michigan on Vimeo.

“We need  better robots.”

We agree, could they be like this collection?

The first clip SAM is silent.

The second clip (also silent) shows  the cybernetic sculpture grandfather The Senster. The Senster site also has information about SAM.

The last clip is hardly a robot, a beautifully simple sound making device/machine perhaps?

Amusing and seductive, mechanical musical objects.

Enjoy!

fire plug and a bucket

When we are not waiting for your suggestions we take photographs of things around us.

There are many insanely amazing things to be seen right outside your front door.

This very crisp, moderately well exposed image taken with a consumer level digital camera is probably not one of those things.

Until we confess that we placed the bucket next to the fire plug for just this effect after watching the bucket mill around on the corner of our street for three weeks.

This whole thing is staged. If I remember correctly.

Photography!

Real world feedback this time. “The blog needs to develop slowly, with more posts.”

The girl and crab in this image were a very popular Brighton tourist attraction in the 1940’s. The duo  formed despite the crab’s tendency to viciously attack and repeatedly nip the girl.

Apart from waitressing and sulking their were few tasks for a young girl, that attracted any real money in the early years of the war, crabs on the other hand were experiencing a surge in popularity. Knowing which side of the nut loaf had the margarine on it, Eileen Bennett seized the crab in a self protective embrace and took the quaint spectacle to the people.

Eileen and the enormous crab last performed their uneasy duet at the 1958 Royal Variety Performance  in Scotland.

Thanks RedTraveller for the SMS

Requested by Stylopath, we hope this reminds you of your betrothed.

We asked you to “Tell us what this blog SHOULD do?”

Some good people asked for stuff and so far the result has at least been funny…thus a slightly better blog.

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FEEL FREE to suggest anything that will  improve your experience of this blog.

We’ll credit you and link to your stuff if we can make your idea work.

The sound of this explosion is really soothing.

Suggested by Jodie

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