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Dave Brubeck — specifically, “Take Five” — will be forever associated in my mind with “The Secret Life of Machines” I’ll add a link once I have a chance to sea
by donw 6y ago
Dave Brubeck — specifically, “Take Five” — will be forever associated in my mind with “The Secret Life of Machines”
I’ll add a link once I have a chance to search. It’s a delightfully quirky TV program from the 1970s, and which I thought showcased some brilliantly fun, yet simple, mechanical engineering.
- ZeroGravitas 6y agoI think they used the Reggae version by Val Bennet called "The Russians are Coming" https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pzqoqzSZkPs https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pzqoqzSZkPs But yes, great show.
- js2 6y agoThat's right. Good memory. I'd never realized it. https://youtu.be/mDe-T5JayN8?t=1349 https://youtu.be/mDe-T5JayN8?t=1349 (At the end of this episode, he talks about the short life of vacuum cleaners as compared to vacuum cleaners of the past. Hah.) https://www.secretlifeofmachines.com/the_music.shtml https://www.secretlifeofmachines.com/the_music.shtml
- s_dev 6y agoUnsqare Dance will be forever associated with "Baby Driver".
- rchase 6y ago“The Secret Life of Machines” My god how I loved that show. Tim Hunkin is such a weird and wonderful person. And though the show sorta predates the modern internet, as soon as the tech was available/undertandable to him, he put the whole damn series online for download (initially on an FTP server) for free. The episode where he and Garrod make a an audio recording with some rust filings and Scotch tape (sticky tape ;) was simply amazing.