Not wanting to look like a chump here, but assuming this machine isn't either powered by fossil fuels or an independant power scource (i.e. battery).......... Didn't it ummmm cross anybody's mind to just UNPLUG the damn thing?

They are pretty smooth http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5uNXskl3OA and pretty

In reply to this comment by oritteropo:
Thanks, I liked that :

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http://videosift.com/video/Boy-Skin-Live-Unplugged-Accoustic

*promote Boy
and
http://videosift.com/video/Boy-Skin-Live-Unplugged-Accoustic
http://videosift.com/video/Boy-Drive-Darling-Live-Unplugged

Thanks, I liked that

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http://videosift.com/video/Boy-Skin-Live-Unplugged-Accoustic

http://videosift.com/video/Boy-Skin-Live-Unplugged-Accoustic

wouldn't this be cooler and more practical if you didn't have to cut the wires? How about just unplug them?

>> ^drk421:

>> ^Boise_Lib:
The capacitors aren't the problem as stated above. The CRT itself is a very large capacitor (stores charge) and can knock you on your ass for a long time after the tv is unplugged.
Also, she's weird.

Yeah, my old boss got shocked by the CRT discharge and his arm swung against the side of the wall and he got cut really bad. It has about the same effect has getting shocked by an ignition coil from a car. I had a similar situation while working on a tube amplifier (around 600V).
High voltage DC will basically burn you really bad (provided it has enough current), but unless you have heart condition it probably won't kill you. It will defibrillate you and wake you up though.
High voltage low frequency AC (between 30 and 1000hz) is deadly starting at around 45 volts. As you get into the higher frequency AC voltages it has less affect on your heart, and thus less likely to kill you.


I saw a chart once in physics class that showed the lethality vs. frequency of AC. The peak was at 50 Hz--right where Europe put their power supply.

I got bit by 277VAC 50Hz once--burned a 1/2 inch hole 1/4 inch deep in my arm.
(I wish we had the metric system in the old USA)

>> ^Boise_Lib:

The capacitors aren't the problem as stated above. The CRT itself is a very large capacitor (stores charge) and can knock you on your ass for a long time after the tv is unplugged.
Also, she's weird.


Yeah, my old boss got shocked by the CRT discharge and his arm swung against the side of the wall and he got cut really bad. It has about the same effect has getting shocked by an ignition coil from a car. I had a similar situation while working on a tube amplifier (around 600V).

High voltage DC will basically burn you really bad (provided it has enough current), but unless you have heart condition it probably won't kill you. It will defibrillate you and wake you up though.

High voltage low frequency AC (between 30 and 1000hz) is deadly starting at around 45 volts. As you get into the higher frequency AC voltages it has less affect on your heart, and thus less likely to kill you.

The capacitors aren't the problem as stated above. The CRT itself is a very large capacitor (stores charge) and can knock you on your ass for a long time after the tv is unplugged.

Also, she's weird.

Nah, these are pretty great and much better than a traditional tablet for end-to-end drawing. Do you draw, Westy?

Traditional tablets are just messy... try to draw a straight line up or down... every stroke is a goddamned irritating process of trial and error. The tablet, your arm/hand, and the monitor, all have their own "square" orientation.

After ten years owning a couple Intuos tablets I have not gotten any better at drawing with it (while my pen+paper drawing skills have improved greatly). I have left my 21" Intuos unplugged for most of the time I owned it, in fact. This is because I have to look at a screen while my hand is in another place using the stylus. It feels like trying to draw with some kind of robot arm holding the pen. Looking directly at your hand, and directly at what you're drawing, makes it so much more natural.

The only way I can do any good "drawing" with an Intuos is to draw it on paper first then scan it in and "ink" it with the Intuos. Sort of defeats a large part of the concept of a digital art tablet.

>> ^westy:

This is the stupidest shit ever fucking hell.
it looked like the image was a 3d render rather than a drawing , and on-top of that its the type of drawing you could draw with a mouse prity much using splines as fast as you could with a pen.
I mean the basic wakom is gr8 if your used to working with paper and pens and its a good way to sketch things out with that style of drawing but really a good artist can probably produce the same end result with same effort using basic mid range wacom. the cintequ and above range are nice but they are far to clunky and impractical.
I think they should focus effort on a very portable wacom pad that's basicly like an I pad but specifcaly for drawing comes with latest photoshop and loads of drawing tools , + high rez digital cam built in.

regardless of the products which are for the most part really good . The protentois nature of this advert is a joke and utter bullshit.

Dude can't handle it--unplug this bastard Junction.

See also:
http://videosift.com/video/Roast-of-Charlie-Sheen-Sheenpocalypse-Now-ad

Superficial artistic integrity is an ingredient of commercial success in today's pop. Did you know that Lady Gaga writes all her own music?!?! lyk omg>> ^westy:


I thought the music company was just making these songs purely for bussiness but it actually seems like they are treating it as a serous artistic Enterprise rather than a comercail one.

Hmm, won't play for me

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Fixed!

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*dead

Fixed!

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*dead

The band is called "Get well soon", Le Cargo is the excellent French webzine ("Webzine musicale" as it calls itself) whose youtube channel I've been mining for content... and a rich seam it is too

I'm not the first to observe that between Le Cargo and La Blogoteque all the cool and interesting bands seem to be covered! The two have slightly different focus though, Le Cargo specialises in minimalist "unplugged" acoustic sessions.>> ^Opus_Moderandi:

That was great! Lecargo is the band name? Pardon my ignorance...
(and laziness for not just googling it )