Strange times: The sui generis Dave Brubeck

Re:Strange times: The sui generis Dave Brubeck by donw on Monday August 17, 2020 @11:37PM (#24195007)

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.

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Re:Strange times: The sui generis Dave Brubeck by rchase on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @09:45AM (#24198448)

“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.

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Re:Strange times: The sui generis Dave Brubeck by ZeroGravitas on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @09:09AM (#24198118)

I think they used the Reggae version by Val Bennet called "The Russians are Coming"

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pzqoqzSZkPs

But yes, great show.

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Re:Strange times: The sui generis Dave Brubeck by js2 on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @12:29PM (#24200714)

That's right. Good memory. I'd never realized it.

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

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Re:Strange times: The sui generis Dave Brubeck by s_dev on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @09:20AM (#24198199)

Unsqare Dance will be forever associated with "Baby Driver".

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