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A confluence!

Airwolf Season 4? What’s that all about? I saw an episode & thought I was dreaming.

Almagamated mirror world tv show on laughing gas.

Not the Jan Michael Vincent & Ernest Borgnine jaunt in a weaponized whirlybird I was accustomed to!

Airwolf SE4 was broadcast on the USA Network, budget slashed, had the entire cast replaced, they filmed in Canada, & reused the flight scenes from earlier seasons! The chopper was a fake too!

Watch Airwolf Season 4 episode 20 “The Puppet Master” either on Hulu (why is it on HULU? Bandwidth be damned!),

or a dedicated fansite! http://bit.ly/9kSIp (OF ALL THE THINGS TO MAKE A FANSITE ABOUT?)

OMG! THEY'RE GONNA MAKE ME WATCH IT!

Spoiler: It’s like the Bloodhound Gang meets Skynet on the set of War of the Worlds the series. (Yes, I watched WOTWTS.)

It’s just so bizarre on many different levels.

Here’s the intro to Season 4 on youtube:

It’s not quite the same is it without JMV and EB?

Think I’ll go back to watching Banacek.

Ahhhh, R.I.P. George Peppard.

Quad screen design mayhem

A shot from Cut and Paste Boston Digital Design Tournament!

Kind of like a no holds barred grudge match, but for design geeks, with Wacom Tablets.

I had the honor of participating in it as a judge for the Motion Design competition.

Lo-fi video at it’s best. A toy of a video camera.
The Fisher Price PixelVision.
It recorded to audio tape!
I passed by one once in a window of a thrift store.

Here’s an example of the low resolution blurry ghostlike image quality

I found this endearing clip of a guy and his grandfather in the yard.
“I don’t think it records sound, so…”

Now mobile phones can take about the same quality of video, but the nostalgia isn’t quite the same.

I don’t remember falling asleep during the beginning of “The Last Samurai”.

But I woke up during this scene!

NINJAS FLIPPING OUT! oh and gaijin Tom Cruise getting nasty with the katana.

What a delightfully epic battle scene in the middle of a Cruise flick. Who’d a thunk it?!

My favorite part of this clip is at 3:42, when after fighting dozens of ninjas, THREE MORE JUMP IN.
( I suggest you add it to your Netflix queue / Public Library request list.)

It’s “Glory” meets “The Last of the Mohicans” set in “The Seven Samurai”.

Build-a-bot from Roy V Simonds on Vimeo.

Chiptune by:
Jon Siegel
www.sasuraisamurai.com

What I did on my Summer vAcation from Roy V Simonds on Vimeo.

With Rusty Kinnunen, check him out at http://www.uptogood.org/

I was searching for Robot Carnival on dvd, it isn’t. It’s a fun collection of anime shorts.

But I searched for “Robot Circus” mistakenly, and instead found this french album on ebay, then I searched for a clip of that

delicious sounding track, Tous Des Robots, and found sheer DIY awesomeness.

Backyard robots in a breakdance battle, juggling torches in front of a GIANT FLASHING LED sculpture of underpants!

“There’s a fine line between performance art and just having a good time.”
It’s like a Sweded Michél Gondry video, which is all sorts of cultural feedback going on.

made entirely with After Effects