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This contraption may not necessarily encourage the desired behavior .... I mean, it doesn't exactly appear to distinguish between poop and non-poop objects ... O_o

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>> ^AeroMechanical:
The problem I see with using 3D interfaces is simply that the screen is 2D.

I disagree. The real limitation is the mouse and keyboard. Something spatially aware like wired gloves on this would be pretty fun.

edit: well the keyboard kicks ass still, but maybe it's just b/c I'm biased towards it ... @andybesy, keyboard ftw!

Teehehe. He said "appected."

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I'm always stuck by how relevant/appropriate the little clips they air from days past are, despite from whence they might have come .... I wonder how they sort through them all so quickly ...

>> ^notarobot:
I still love the style of flash animation he uses!


Doesn't really look like flash to me ... looks more like some sort of tracing paper with him drawing the scenes with perhaps a soft graphite pencil from behind the paper. You can sort of see the vague blurry outlines of his fingers and drawing hand moving around behind the paper. Some cursory searching confirms my suspicion:

[fyi] via http://animationcritic.blogspot.com/:

I actually completely lifted the technique really from an obscure old arthouse movie called The Mystery of Picasso where the filmmaker [Clouzot] spent a few days with Picasso in his studio. Picasso painted on transluscent canvases and [Clouzot] shot him from the other side, shot the canvases from the other side. I sort of took that and just added narration to it.

I wish 1st ave made a 'behind the scenes' or something for these. Concept art, what sorta toys they used to render this with ...

kinky ....

real-life counterpart to the g-man?

He doesn't really look very nimble enough to be able to really take advantage of the extra second a roll of toilet paper flying past the cat's face might buy ...

... he should take fishing rod or long pole, tie a rope and a feather duster to it and sling it around near the cat ...

Automatic upvote for Mr. Tyson!

part 2 (59:37) & part 3 (1:09:59)

I don't know why the links weren't working in the description ....

>> ^ant:
I have seen earthworms do this.


Is that a common worm thing to do ... ? I have not ...[seen earthworms do this]