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Best Rube Goldberg machine ever

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkzr0naZnZ0

Honda commercial. They used all and only the parts of a car. No computer manipulation. It's brilliant.

It also creates a sense of precision and engineering competence that is sorely lacking in the automotive industry's public image. I think this was a coup for the ad department.

Submitted by Adryan on Tue, 2007-02-13 11:23.
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Submitted by mark p on Thu, 2007-02-15 10:54.

As much as I enjoyed the spectacle itself, I really enjoyed reading the Youtubers comments, where their appears to be debate (and I use that term loosely) about the authenticity vs computer manipulation of the commercial. Many of them seem to think there's no way it could be done without fakery. It seems we only debate and care about such a thing when it applies to something where the answer is relatively unimportant. Meaning, on the recent Dove commercial that shows how women are made up and photoshopped to create "beauty" there was little debate, and sadly, a lot of comments from likely fourteen-year old boys like "But she is hotter at the end, dude!" But when faced with manipulated images of people on a daily basis, does the same consideration and debate even happen?


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Submitted by Amylea on Thu, 2007-02-15 11:08.

The comments on YouTube in general are fascinating--no wonder our students have difficulty with peer review! What these amateur reviewers choose to focus on is often the beauty of the image, not the beauty of the construction that the video makers have created. There are few constructive comments out there. This might have something to do with the chid psychology of the day ("Everyone is special!"), but it's not helping us make better creations.