Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Cool random video of the day: "Pipe Dreams"
The following video -- which is, in fact, animation -- circulated (to me, anyway) attached to a fraudulent Internet urban legend:
This incredible machine was built as a collaborative effort between The Robert M. Trammell Music Conservatory and the Sharon Wick School of Engineering at the University of Iowa. Amazingly, 97% of the machines Components came from John Deere Industries and Irrigation Equipment of Bancroft Iowa, yes farm equipment!
It took the team a combined 13,029 hours of set-up, alignment, Calibration, and tuning before filming this video but as you can see it was WELL worth the effort.
It is now on display in the Matthew Gerhard Alumni Hall at the University and is already slated to be donated to the Smithsonian.
While I would be the first to believe that the John Deere company and various farm equipment manufacturers could make such a device -- which reveals, I think, my "blue state" knowledge of farm equipment -- the video is awesome even if it is fantasy.
2 Comments:
By 
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Tue Nov 21, 07:46:00 AM:
Hey, TH -- this is a commercial product called "Animusic". You can read about their DVDs and the very talented guys who produced them at http://www.animusic.com. I bought their DVDs -- they are awesome!
By 
Catchy Pseudonym, at
Tue Nov 21, 09:36:00 AM:
I made something similar out of a vacuum cleaner, a mandoline and 20 gallons of chick peas.
