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JimmyCracksCorn
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Macedonia - Sovereign country north of Greece.
Dec 2002
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I was looking up some instructions on google for how to do robot dancing (don't ask) and I happened across this video.
Its a Korean-American talent contest in California and three guys dance, although one only for a second. You think its supposed to be about the first guy, who is OK, but once the third one comes out - oh my christ. Give him a second to get into it and your mind will be blown. This guy must be quintuple jointed in every joint in his body.
Its amazing, maybe some of you have seen it before but if you haven't you should. Especially watch for the very end when he goes into slow motion...it looks like there's a strobe light on him or that frames have been cut out, but its obviously not edited. He's just that good.
http://media.ebaumsworld.com/index.php?e=robotdance.wmv
That is all.
Last edited by JimmyCracksCorn on 13-06-2005 at 22:42
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JimmyCracksCorn
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Macedonia - Sovereign country north of Greece.
Dec 2002
time: 05:33
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Originally posted by Dissident
why were you looking for some instructions on how to do robot dancing? |
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Originally posted by JimmyCracksCorn
(don't ask) |
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the video doesn't seem to work for me, but they rarely do. I usually have to go and use internet explorer instead of firefox. |
right click on the link and hit "save as" and play it through windows media player. Thats what I do.
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JimmyCracksCorn
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Macedonia - Sovereign country north of Greece.
Dec 2002
time: 05:33
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Originally posted by Dissident
I assume you are talking about the guy in the orange shirt. interesting.
I've always found dancing to be incredibly stupid. How is the human urge to dance related to survival of the fittest? |
Good question.
You should look up the anthropology of dance and ritual. Victor Turner is a good place to start. Lots of interesting and intuitive explanations to the question you ask.
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JimmyCracksCorn
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Macedonia - Sovereign country north of Greece.
Dec 2002
time: 05:33
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Originally posted by JohnT
It attracts mates. |
Possbily an aspect, but not nearly the whole picture.
It has more to do with the symbolic process in humans and mythology. i.e., its fundamentally religious in nature.
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BlackCat
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Originally posted by JohnT
It attracts mates. |
Yep. Besides, it's fun and good exercise.
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JohnT
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Capitalist
Mar 1999
time: 00:33
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Possbily an aspect, but not nearly the whole picture.
It has more to do with the symbolic process in humans and mythology. i.e., its fundamentally religious in nature. |
Spiders:
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Certain female jumping spiders demand that their mates tap dance and sing before they will mate with them, according to new research.
While it is well known that birds sing and bees dance, the addition of Fred Astaire spiders to the story of "the birds and the bees" is relatively new, and suggests that spiders engage in much more sophisticated communication and behavior than previously thought. |
http://animal.discovery.com/news/af...103/spider.html
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A male three-spined stickleback starts his courtship by building a nest inside a territory he defends. When a female approaches he performs a zig-zag dance towards and away from the nest until she turns towards him and raises her head. He then leads her to the nest and waits, head down, beside the entrance. If she enters the nest he nudges her tail. She lays eggs, and leaves by swimming through the nest. He follows, fertilizing the eggs. In this ritual, each response stimulates the next activity and an incorrect response causes the last step to be repeated. |
http://uk.encarta.msn.com/encyclope..._Behaviour.html
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Watch a male Arfak Parotia bird of paradise dance and displays to females a weird, beautiful, and funny routine by clicking above. |
http://www.princeton.edu/~amoroz/20...ak-parotia.html
(the above is a video of a dancing bird and the mates he wants to boink, er, have a loving and stable relationship with.
Not saying that humans haven't added a plethora of other reasons to dance, but in Darwinian terms the urge to dance likely comes from the need/desire to attract mates.
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BlackCat
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He maybe also have practiced a little; practiced some more; done it again and have a lot of talent.
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13-06-2005 22:36
ACK!
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I was close to advise you to take a stroll on the nearest highway to end your misery.
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, It'd be better if I examined her, and she examined me.
I flicked through the thread and saw JohnT taling about spiders and fishs and assumed it had got threadjacked somewhere along the way
Horrible movie with a terrible premise.
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