Posted on March 31, 2008 by jailbreaktoys
Living My Life Faster – 8 years of JK’s Daily Photo Project from c71123 on Vimeo.
Considering how much time he put into this, I think we all owe it to him to watch it. I’ve learned that there are a bunch of films like this on YouTube but this is the first one I [...]
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Posted on March 31, 2008 by jailbreaktoys
It’s a little-known fact (outside of my personal circles) that, in addition to authoring this blog, I also sculpt all the toys for Jailbreak. What’s even less-known though, is that this sculptor lost a fingertip last summer at Burning Man. (It’s a long story involving art, bells, and helicopters but I’ll leave all [...]
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Posted on March 31, 2008 by jailbreaktoys
Since we’re already wearing our hearts on our sleeve anyway with the Obama Action Figure, this video really says it all so brilliantly.
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Posted on March 31, 2008 by jailbreaktoys
I came across this a while back and was amazed. Now we’re on the verge of releasing a Tesla Oddfellow, so I had to go back and read it again for some research. It’s about a project that Tesla began but never finished that essentially would have given us a wireless worldwide web [...]
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Posted on March 31, 2008 by jailbreaktoys
Yes, Norman Mailer had a rep as a “two fisted writer”. But still, nothing in that rep quite prepared you for seeing the man in action. There’s a whole back story behind this video. Watch carefully and you can see when Mailer bites a piece of Rip [...]
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Posted on March 31, 2008 by jailbreaktoys
I don’t want to spoil the video because I think most of the joy comes in watching him (her?) at work. Having said that, this video does really open up some questions about how brains work and what separates us from all the rest of the animal kingdom. (Answer: less [...]
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