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Les premiers vrais tests du nano quad d'Ulix, un plaisir à voir et à piloter! [video]
The true first tests of the nano quad of Ulix, a pleasure to see and to pilot!
(Translated at Free Translation)
(Translated at Free Translation)
Uploaded by FVP2MACAM on Feb 6, 2011
This video is in the video playlist Transport Future Air
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Future of air travel - Airbus unveils the transparent plane - 2050
Uploaded by pilotsubi on Jun 15, 2011
This video is in the video playlist Transport Future Air
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H/t Soothsayer at Ace of Spades.
[Correction: earlier graphic that said "Shredder" instead of "Soothsayer"]
[Correction: earlier graphic that said "Shredder" instead of "Soothsayer"]
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Why? Because I had these two partial video recordings of this song, so I stitched them together. (Roughly. The audio change is rather obvious, even besides the sudden change of my hair and shirt). Then I overlaid them with silliness, as befits this goofy old song.
Lyrics are not quite the same as in the video. Most notably, I realized that all these years I'd been singing about Francis Scott Keyes, which isn't his name. Appropriate changes followed.
Note to patriots: No, I am not saying America is imperialistic. Not in spirit. But Americans can be, who veer from the American way. That's what this song is about. If anything. It's a one-note joke, see. How can a song titled The Great American Song not be The Great American Song, even if it isn't really The Great American Song? (Which would probably have to be either America the Beautiful or Don McLean's American Pie. Or American Woman by The Guess Who. Just kidding!)
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On his Arlo & Janis blog, Jimmy Johnson wrote about creating the March 20 strip: "Finally, with deadline looming and the other five strips in the can, I picked up the strip and, voila, Janis spoke her lines." I just commented that I liked that, but also had these thoughts.
"...voila, Janis spoke her lines...."
I like that. I've dabbled in comics and storytelling. It's delightful to have a character surprise the author. I've had a character who was only intended to be an onlooker suddenly pipe up in a significant way. Or when the key to getting your character home again, previously a vague outline, becomes revealed by the unwinding story.
You know the story and script is unwinding in your brain's circuitry, but while sometimes you're forcing thoughts out with a grunt, there's those times you almost seem to be a pipeline for the Cosmic Mind, the Idea Itself, struggling to be realized in time and space.
I recently finished re-reading the Harry Potter series, and frequently imagined Rowling having similar feelings as she worked on her magnificent opus. Or Tolkien, or Beethoven, or Da Vinci. I recall Rowling saying about the 7th book, she hadn't expected one character's death and found herself crying about it. Nice thing about it, on such points, one can look back and admire a nice turn of phrase or twist of plot with amazement and a kind of reader's delight rather than anything like writer's pride. One can see outtakes of nigh-perfect movies and realize, yeah, that really didn't belong (the Jitterbug dance in Wizard of Oz).
In our minds, we do art. In the Cosmic Mind, art does us.
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