I am ABSOLUTELY mesmerized by this video. For what reasons, I do not know.

*promote

@hpqp your golden member is mesmerizing!

whoaaaa Mesmerizing

I think he's genius...he kept my 4 month old daughter mesmerized until the 2:30 mark. Now I have to beat-box every feeding.

This is what inspired the invention:
http://videosift.com/video/Ketchup-Bot-accurately-adds-condiments-to-any-fast-food

edit: or maybe this:
http://videosift.com/video/Oozinator-Disturbing-Super-Soaker-Commercial

oh, and *quality because that thing is mesmerizing

This video always leaves me transfixed and mesmerized.

A lot of VERY talented people worked on this and cost roughly $90K to pull off. It took thirty some odd takes (with resets, that could take almost no time to a few hours depending on where the machine got to) with two edits and some manipulation (just the speed-to match with the song) This used NO CGI and they actually got the machine to work IN FULL with no resets three times.

People from MIT and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and other, just as talented people, helped to build and get this machine to run. And, specifically, to get it to run in time with the music (or roughly so--the editing slows it down and speeds it up where necessary, but they aren't LARGE edits--you won't notice them unless you look HARD). This will always be a great and unique video.

BTW, considering the people that worked on this you should keep your eyes open and on the look out for easter eggs that are included in the course and related with, usually, their day jobs. This would also be a great teaching tool to introduce kids, in a physics/science class, specifically talking about the easiest of beginning physics: Newtonian Mechanics. Maybe, get the class or better, groups in the class, to come up with their own using various objects available. Make sure you show your math!

Thriller is a great music video and is epic to watch and is great in it's own way. This video does the same. It's memorable and very re-watchable (although the music is average ).

Mesmerizing.

I love the sound of Irish and Scottish folk music, the girl is pretty mesmerizing too.

The 10 minute version is ... mesmerizing.

Woah, I'm glad that's over. I was trapped in the the Osirian Portal the whole time. Mesmerizing....

On the one hand, it's incredible because the movement of the double pendulum appears so chaotic.

On the other hand, it seems like a pretty straightforward system so it's not entirely surprising that it's possible to monitor, calculate and manipulate it.

But that doesn't keep it from being mesmerizing to watch.

mesmerizing *anatomy

>> ^djsunkid:

True story- My favourite part of this ride wasn't the ride itself, it was actually in the corridor on the way to the ride. As well as these videos, they had a bunch of mad-science lab decorations scattered about. One of the decorations was a computer monitor that was showing an animated Mandelbrot zoom. This would have probably been in around 1991 or 1992.
I was already familiar with the concept of zooming in on the Mandelbrot set, but remember back in those days it would take minutes or even sometimes hours to render each frame. It had never occurred to me to make an animation of a zoom. It totally and utterly mesmerized the twelve year old me. It was the worst thing being in a line and not getting to just stand and watch it- the line moved and I couldn't block people, so I only really caught a glimpse of it. It was really just a few seconds ping-pong loop, but wow. What an effect.
When I first saw the program Xaos running on a (then) modern computer, probably an early pentium or something, I knew for sure that it was the future. Realtime animated fractal zooms, WTF!
I wonder if there are any photos or videos of the decor of the corridor from that ride?


Hhaa, Blue Man Group uses that too IIRC. I love the 3D ones now! I want a screen saver of it!

True story- My favourite part of this ride wasn't the ride itself, it was actually in the corridor on the way to the ride. As well as these videos, they had a bunch of mad-science lab decorations scattered about. One of the decorations was a computer monitor that was showing an animated Mandelbrot zoom. This would have probably been in around 1991 or 1992.

I was already familiar with the concept of zooming in on the Mandelbrot set, but remember back in those days it would take minutes or even sometimes hours to render each frame. It had never occurred to me to make an animation of a zoom. It totally and utterly mesmerized the twelve year old me. It was the worst thing being in a line and not getting to just stand and watch it- the line moved and I couldn't block people, so I only really caught a glimpse of it. It was really just a few seconds ping-pong loop, but wow. What an effect.

When I first saw the program Xaos running on a (then) modern computer, probably an early pentium or something, I knew for sure that it was the future. Realtime animated fractal zooms, WTF!

I wonder if there are any photos or videos of the decor of the corridor from that ride?

Replace America, and chosen famous artists/musicians with your country's name and artists and this speaks loudly for a lot of countries, I know it does for Australia...

I've seen Rollins live and he is pretty mesmerizing, and this is just nicely saying what should be obvious to all, but that's what most great speeches are really.