Ready.
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Tweenbots by Kacie Kinzer:
Given their extreme vulnerability, the vastness of city space, the dangers posed by traffic, suspicion of terrorism, and the possibility that no one would be interested in helping a lost little robot, I initially conceived the Tweenbots as disposable creatures which were more likely to struggle and die in the city than to reach their destination. Because I built them with minimal technology, I had no way of tracking the Tweenbot’s progress, and so I set out on the first test with a video camera hidden in my purse. I placed the Tweenbot down on the sidewalk, and walked far enough away that I would not be observed as the Tweenbot––a smiling 10-inch tall cardboard missionary––bumped along towards his inevitable fate.
The results were unexpected. Over the course of the following months, throughout numerous missions, the Tweenbots were successful in rolling from their start point to their far-away destination assisted only by strangers. Every time the robot got caught under a park bench, ground futilely against a curb, or became trapped in a pothole, some passerby would always rescue it and send it toward its goal. Never once was a Tweenbot lost or damaged. Often, people would ignore the instructions to aim the Tweenbot in the “right” direction, if that direction meant sending the robot into a perilous situation. One man turned the robot back in the direction from which it had just come, saying out loud to the Tweenbot, “You can’t go that way, it’s toward the road.”
The Tweenbot’s unexpected presence in the city created an unfolding narrative that spoke not simply to the vastness of city space and to the journey of a human-assisted robot, but also to the power of a simple technological object to create a complex network powered by human intelligence and asynchronous interactions. But of more interest to me, was the fact that this ad-hoc crowdsourcing was driven primarily by human empathy for an anthropomorphized object. The journey the Tweenbots take each time they are released in the city becomes a story of people’s willingness to engage with a creature that mirrors human characteristics of vulnerability, of being lost, and of having intention without the means of achieving its goal alone. As each encounter with a helpful pedestrian takes the robot one step closer to attaining it’s destination, the significance of our random discoveries and individual actions accumulates into a story about a vast space made small by an even smaller robot.
This made me smile for a solid day - not an easy feat… :P
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All of my friends live near each other.
For them, it’s like,
“Hey bro, wanna come over?”
“Aight bro, lemme just cross the street.”
For me, it’s like,
“Hey bro, wanna come over?”
“Aight bro, lemme just cross the bridge to Terabithia, take the shortcut through Narnia, take the detour around District 12, and stop by Hogwarts to get groceries.”
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Suits S1 characters - Harvey Specter
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The Awkward Moment when….
Within the first segement of Hawaii 5-Oh Danno has
1) Had a mock lovers-tiff with McGarrett over ‘running away’
2) Has referred to McGarrett as ‘babe’ in deadly seriousness.
3) Has tried to initiate phone sex with McGarrett - ‘What are you wearing…’
4) Confused himself in to thinking he’s Bond/McGarrett and meeting up with people secretly.
Also Kono fraternising with the enemy much?!
Segment 2
1) ‘Oh Im Danno, imma get kidnapped like a douche. Then McGarrett will HAVE to come back to save me like always :D’
2) ‘Im the idiot thats gonna breath really heavily through my nose for EVER’
3)’Im gonna spill all I know to the baddies and then make empty threats of protecting my I-wish-he-was lover…’
Kono, quit being a fool!!!I get that he’s hot but come on!! His floor is covered in plastic FOR A KILL!!!
BTW McGarrett handcuffing yourself together is really counter productive…
Also - why did all the guys that came to get McGarrett and Wo Fat come in SUITS to the JUNGLE?!?!?
Segment 3
Thats right McGarrett - you trust that backstabbing MoFo
Kicking him in the does face solve that problem…. well done :)
Chin is so badass :) He’s the least annoying of all… but what MG lacks in sense he makes up for in hotness :P
‘Im Kono and i cant keep a secret for my life, im a double crossing shlagg…’
Bless the old guy helping Danno because he’s too useless survive without MG
Oh no Danno your perfect (?!) hair!!!
and now its back to normal -_-
well done Kono, showing some balls for a change in shooting that guy - almost makes up for your constant whiny annoyingness. But not quite.
Thats right Danno, you critise how much of a ‘mess’ MG is - not like hes had to single handedly take out a shit load of guys in the jungle…
Gosh I hate them all, I hold on to the mere hope that one day MG will get his shirt off again…
Ah well :P
xx
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