A Crazy Cambridge Contraption

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A Crazy Cambridge Contraption

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday March 12, 2005 @07:25AM 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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for the clueless by Anonymous Coward · 2005-03-12 07:26 · Score: 5, Informative

honda commercial

Slashdot is getting scooped by memepool now.
1. Re:for the clueless by Sinus0idal · 2005-03-12 08:22 · 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 · 2005-03-12 09:35 · Score: 4, Informative
  
  search google for lauf.mov
  or
  http://www.tcfilm.ch/MOVIE1/lauf.mov
  
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  . hmmm
Re:Slashdotted already by Exstatica · 2005-03-12 07:33 · Score: 4, Informative

i have a mirror of it. http://www.exstatica.net/slashdot/196237/ enjoy :)
Re:You should have built... by VC · 2005-03-12 07:33 · Score: 5, Informative

Mirrordot.org mirror of the video

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Re:Faked Honda Commercial by po8 · 2005-03-12 07:34 · Score: 4, Informative

I believe the tires were weighted internally to achieve this behavior. Counterintuitive, but not cheating.
Mirrored by Exstatica · 2005-03-12 07:35 · Score: 4, Informative

I created a mirror... http://www.exstatica.net/slashdot/196237/ enjoy :)
Pure Genius (And Coral Link) by g_bowskill · 2005-03-12 07:40 · 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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Got the torrents up :) by xbmodder · 2005-03-12 07:40 · 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.
Re:Faked Honda Commercial by Anonymous Coward · 2005-03-12 09:14 · 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.