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Horrifically bad software demo becomes performance art
- apowell 17y agoNeat concept, but the title "The Last Lecture" reminded me of this: http://www.cmu.edu/randyslecture/ http://www.cmu.edu/randyslecture/. It's surely a coincidence, but an unfortunate one. And if you haven't watched Randy Pausch's "Last Lecture", you should.
- tlrobinson 17y agoDid you watch the video? I don't think it's a coincidence, he makes pretty blatant references to Randy Pausch's "Last Lecture". This video is just painfully awkward, but I guess that's the point.
- apowell 17y agoNo, I just read the article (sitting in a coffee shop at the moment). I'll have to watch the video when I get home -- thanks for clearing that up.
- huhtenberg 17y agoVideo http://www.lumalin.com/lumalin_films/last_lecture.php http://www.lumalin.com/lumalin_films/last_lecture.php
- charliepark 17y agoWhat a total disrespect for the students that were there. 35 minutes of painful awkwardness, with absolutely nothing to redeem it. I don't know what the students were anticipating, or if they were required to be there for credit, but the whole ordeal was pathetic. And calling it "performance art" doesn't elevate it or make it in any way worthwhile.
- jsyedidia 17y agoThis was from a class for students in the UCSD "Interdisciplinary Computing and the Arts" major. Presumably this was very on-topic for that class. In any case, it's hilarious!
- gjm11 17y agoHorrifically bad software demo becomes horrifically bad performance art.
- psyklic 17y agoThe only reason I wouldn't have gotten up and left would have been the guy's story about his deceased student. There are glimmers of a potential performance art, but the video is mostly just awkward. He's lucky there weren't any interruptions or the video playing in the background would have been out of sync.
- compay 17y agoGreat idea, horrible implementation. 5 minutes of something like this followed by an actual serious and worthwhile presentation might have been pretty funny. But 35 minutes is definitely moving into Yoko Ono territory, and not in a good way.
- gfodor 17y agoDon't watch it.
- chrischen 17y agoMicrosoft need no pre-recorded video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y_Jp6PxsSQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y_Jp6PxsSQ
- chrischen 17y agoThe assistants were unrealistically disobedient. And when the computer fell there was like nothing plugged in the back (but somehow it messed up the game).
- joecode 17y agoworth it for the jesus puppet. everything else was pretty tiring.