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Baltimore Kinetic Sculpture Race Photos
YetAnotherName writes "Tom Jones again has coverage and plenty of eye candy of the Baltimore Kinetic Sculpture Race, where engineering prowess converges with a sense of humor. Check out what bizarre contraptions for 2005 won awards for Best Engineering, Best Art, Best Bribes, etc., and if anyone actually finished the race."
For anyone at work on this fine Saturday, be advised that the link in the summary labeled "coverage and plenty of eye candy" is not safe for my work, and likely many others.
I found out the hard way - it would be better to put a disclaimer in the summary.
I'm a big tall mofo.
To find kinetic sculptures from everyone.
The whole thing was hilarious. Specially the "It cain't" titanic parody, and my favorite, La Kafkaracha. For those not spanish-savvy, 'la cucaracha' means "the cockroach" in spanish. It's also a famous traditional song in Mexico. (Ironically, the song is about a cockroach not being able to walk because it's missing a leg).
La kafkaracha's face was very funny, too!
It's the top half of a damn mannequin.
You've seen worse at department stores.
There is a picture of what appears to be a papier mache turtle or tortoise about halfway down the page. This construes a clear violation of company policy, as we believe that all creatures were created by god, and any effigy of a creature (ie. created by man & science) is an abomination against christ.
This site is only not safe for work if you happen to work for some kind of totalitarian mothers against everything company.
IIRC, in some countries (or states?), it is illegal to allow children to see naked shop dummies.
Anyway, in the image the mannequin is seen from quite a long way away anyway.
# cat
Damn, my RAM is full of llamas.
I looked straight at that picture and still didn't notice the nudity, and I'm using a 21" monitor! Just *how* close was your boss sitting to you to catch you looking at those pictures?
I'm thinking you have a counterclaim.
Well, if your boss needs a reason to fire you why not do so because you keep surfing slashdot during your work on saturday?
It's not unusual for people to be named Tom Jones. You'll find it happens all the time.
A more serious note:
While entering the water at Canton, the Westward Ho train lost control on the wet ramp and over several seconds skidded into the rocks, and apparently also into a young boy, who started screaming, "I'm gonna die!" While the Coast Guard called for an ambulance, the boy's father was eventually located, and a physician on the scene conducted a brief examination after which the boy was well enough to walk away. Please exercise due caution when attending races of any sort.
Off-topic but I'd like a list of these countries so I can avoid them like the plague. Every time I go the mall, I see something like 10 fully naked dummies, no one cares: it's just a plastic dummy!
You need to change your screen resolution to 320x240 ;) I bet you're one of those crazy xterm fanboys who use a resolution of 1600x1200 (or even worse if you have a 16/9 LCD screen)
sites starting to creak under the slashdot pressure (with all those pics) so here is the coral cache of the article
Old news.
What's new, pussycat?
Waaaaa-Oh-waaaaa-Oh-waaaa-oh-oh
"Eye candy" is really getting old. Time to find a new synonym for photographs or art work.
Duh?
Where do you work???
The Vatican? GOP Headquarters?
Jezus M*****F****** Christ, the era of Queen Victoria is over, if you (or your boss) haven't noticed yet.
You seem to be indicating is a fierce desire to see naked plastic dummies. Although you say "no one cares," you'd assiduously avoid countries that hide them and you can recount how many you've seen in a mall visit. Interesting. Sure, we'll work on that list for you, but in the meantime, tell us about your childhood. Do you visit the mall daily? Have you ever ever missed an important meeting because you were at the Mall "ignoring" the dummies?
http://kineticsculpturerace.org/
I'm not certain how long Baltimore's been doing it, but the Arcata race has been going for 37 years.
The original, which is still running and has the wackiest entries, is at Arcata, California, Humboldt County.
You must be kidding. You must work under the watchful eyes of Pastor HomophobicAntiTitties.
watched it from the canton waterfront park....its a shame that it rained all day (and I was looking forward to seeing the train enter the water)
for those that plan on visiting baltimore, i highly suggest checking out the American Visionary Musuem (http://www.avam.org/ which sponsored this race...its a musuem full of art by non-trained artists. has some really great stuff.
Just as an aside, I happen to work at the Vatican and we surf pr0n sites all the time--no problemo.
--Archbishop (name withheld)
The best part was at the end of the article:
A more serious note:
While entering the water at Canton, the Westward Ho train lost control on the wet ramp and over several seconds skidded into the rocks, and apparently also into a young boy, who started screaming, "I'm gonna die!" While the Coast Guard called for an ambulance, the boy's father was eventually located, and a physician on the scene conducted a brief examination after which the boy was well enough to walk away. Please exercise due caution when attending races of any sort.
I can just imagine the train verrrrrry slowly sliding on its side down the ramp into the water, while some boy is standing in front of the sliding train for several seconds watching as it slides towards him, not moving an inch, and then suddenly screaming "I'm gonna die!!!" when it barely touches him, and then the coast guard whips into action, beaching their 40 foot cutter in the 2 inch deep water next to the ramp to save the boy, calling for ambulances to race in and make sure that the boy's scraped knee is not life-threating.
Get back to work and abuse some choirboys!!!
~Ratty
... Red Bull Flugtag, just without the flying.
i think liverpool in the uk is one of them.
cant rember which half is deemd illegal.
male child ove r4 and uner 12 or sth.
the highlight of the page is the story way down at the bottom... apparently one of the sculptures ran into a kid who fell over and started to yell "i'm going to die"... the paramedics came, the kid was fine.
This one in Baltimore is just a cheap-ass Pretender
http://www.drewmeyer.net/gallery/kinetic2003 Here's some pictures from '03 of the Ferndale to Arcata California race. The best part is the local strip club owner dressed up as the evil bandit of the race. Apparently that's become a ritual.
Tim Smith - Ramblings from Nerd Land
"The hard way"? Were you fired for looking at a photo of a giant homemade duck? Or are you just suffering from a severe case of melodramatitis?
"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it." -- GBS
There was a similar one in Boulder, CO today, too. As of posting, the pictures aren't up yet, but there are pictures of past-years events. I found out about it too late -- hopefully I'll be there next year.
HIV Crosses Species Barrier... into Muppets
http://kineticsculpturerace.org/
We have all sorts of history on our page, plus descriptions of our Kinetic Lab where machines are built and the Museum where they go to die.
We crown the most talented, most rutabaga like contestant who offers herself (or this year, himself) to the public for their approval and acclamation as our rutabaga queen. They receive a hand-made crown from Glorious Founder, Hobart Brown.
Do visit us... whether electronically or as Tom Jones and crew did last year IN PERSON!
I so enjoyed visiting Baltimore last year... you can see pix on
http://ebeltz.net/fieldtrips/ksr-balt04/ksr-balt04 .html
Plus there's tons of photos of the mother race on the kinetic site. We have a forum, too for people interested in conversing with real live kinetinauts!
For the GLORY!
Seer#13