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A Crazy Cambridge Contraption

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the what-are-weekends-of-fun dept.

lhdentra writes "A few friends and I got bored one weekend and decided to build a contraption. Remember the Honda advert? We think ours is better." This took dedication.

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  1. for the clueless by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    honda commercial

    Slashdot is getting scooped by memepool now.

    1. Re:for the clueless by Sinus0idal · · Score: 4, Informative

      The Honda commercial wasn't original - it copied an old short film Der Lauf der Dinge (The way things go)... Imdb link

    2. Re:for the clueless by quiddity · · Score: 4, Informative

      search google for lauf.mov
      or
      http://www.tcfilm.ch/MOVIE1/lauf.mov

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  2. Re:Slashdotted already by Exstatica · · Score: 4, Informative

    i have a mirror of it. http://www.exstatica.net/slashdot/196237/ enjoy :)

  3. Re:You should have built... by VC · · Score: 5, Informative

    Mirrordot.org mirror of the video

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  4. Re:Faked Honda Commercial by po8 · · Score: 4, Informative

    I believe the tires were weighted internally to achieve this behavior. Counterintuitive, but not cheating.

  5. Mirrored by Exstatica · · Score: 4, Informative

    I created a mirror... http://www.exstatica.net/slashdot/196237/ enjoy :)

  6. Link by Ceirren · · Score: 3, Informative

    Thanks to mirrordot for the...well....mirror http://mirrordot.org/stories/4a5348d4e9a30ecdb1883 7ab66bcbcbf/index.html

  7. Pure Genius (And Coral Link) by g_bowskill · · Score: 5, Informative

    Wow, this looked really awesome! Much more realistic than the Honda one (Which was still pretty cool) in my opinion.

    I managed to get to it via coral:

    http://people.pwf.cam.ac.uk.nyud.net:8090/lwh21/ma chine/machine.avi

    Enjoy!

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  8. Got the torrents up :) by xbmodder · · Score: 5, Informative

    The contraption.AVI http://thebrokenwargames.gotdns.com/con.torrent and the machine.avi http://thebrokenwargames.gotdns.com/machine.avi.to rrent the honda video will be up in a few minutes. stop downloading it if you can. I need the video to make meta.

  9. Rube Godwin by AtariAmarok · · Score: 3, Informative
    " I've never seen it but I have been told about one called the "Hitler Killer" which was started when a hen laid an egg "

    See title. Rube Godwin's Law was named after the fact that in any fierce Internet argument (first Usenet, now elsewhere), whenever someone discusses ungainly contraptions, someone will always ask "but can you kill Hitler with it?"

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  10. mirroring by yack0 · · Score: 3, Informative

    web server on fire...

    the original

    the edited type movie

    The honda wagon commercial - still a classic

    Enjoy

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  11. Re:Faked Honda Commercial by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative


    Actually the only cut in the Honda cog is at the exhaust (muffler) section when it rolls across the floor (because they couldn't fit all the components in), apart from that and the 606 takes later, its all real, we discussed this here when the advert was first released

    Of course the big hoo-haa was Honda (or their agency) was taking all the credit and collecting numerous prestigous creative awards when they (or their ad company) blatently "borrowed" the idea from Rube Goldberg's "Lauf der Dinge" (the way things go) without giving any credit to Rube, all while giving some bullshit story about being inspired by Mousetrap (the board game) if you see Rube's film (1987) you will see the plagiarism for yourself.
    I guess Picasso was right ? "good artists copy, great artists steal"

    That is, award winning multi million dollar production companies certainly do.