[Found here and here. Top one courtesy of Mrmacs, and dude, that was just disturbing.]
Category: Cat Stuff
Saturday Matinee – Cat Fail Sail, Mechanical Principles, & Tom Waits
[Tip ‘o the tarboosh to Mrmacs who found it here and insisted that we post it.]
“Mechanical Principles” – Simple gear actions from 1930 by Ralph Steiner, set to classical music. From the UToobage comments:
Some of the mechanisms featured:
0:16 Positive displacement pump
0:26 Four-stroke engine piston;
0:50 Simple steam engines or pumps;
2:00 Steam engine reversing gear as on ships;
3:10 Differential gear;
4:05 Worm gear;
4:10 Archimedes screw;
5:22 Geneva gear;
5:32 Pawl and ratchet;
5:55 Grasshopper escapement;
7:15 Scotch yokes;
8:07 Positive displacement pump (same as 0:16);
9:29 Wheel and disc integrator used in analog computers;
9:54 Possibly a turbine.
The only other soundtrack I can think of that might go along with that vid would be something by this guy:
Tom Waits’ Private Listening Party. I’m there if you need to get in touch with me. Have a great weekend, be back here tomorrow.
LaserCat Charging Station
[Found in here.]
The .Gif Friday Post No.230 – Party Cats, Snow Spaz & Hovercat Attack
ArCATecture
[More here.]
The .Gif Friday Post No.224 – Roadtrippin’ Gibbons, Doggie & Puppy, Rockin’ The Cat Box
The .Gif Friday Post No.223 – Catlight, Obama Skates, Eyeball Springs
The .Gif Friday Post No. 221 – Cat Tongue, Bear Smack & CheetahBot
The .Gif Friday Post (on Thursday) No.219 – Kit Kat Clock Hate, Zoo Chimp Hate, Ninja Cat Hate
The first is cool, because I have one, and they’re evil as hell.
The second, I don’t know, but someone’s not paying attention to what’s going down.
The third is completely in the realm of douchebaggery, primarily because Mr. Dbag thought his sit-ups were worth recording. I’m glad he did, because it’s one of the few .gif animations that induce mental sound effects.
Update– Blew the scheduling for the Friday >gif post. I set my calendar ahead instead of my clocks. Oh well…
