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A comment on Toto’s ‘Africa’ Will Play Forever on Loop in the Namib Desert (2019).

Re:Toto’s ‘Africa’ Will Play Forever on Loop in the Namib De... by sitkack on Thursday December 17, 2020 @10:33PM (#25463509)
Zero engineering effort has been put into this. I am sorry, but this is lame.

Had they constructed a shape that could float on the changing dunes, something that could charge into a medium that wouldn't degrade, this won't even last 6 months, then it would be interesting.

I was hoping for Discotheque of the Long Now.

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Re:Toto’s ‘Africa’ Will Play Forever on Loop in the Namib De... by xupybd on Thursday December 17, 2020 @11:28PM (#25463869)
I think the title is setting us up here. I'm not sure the artist actually intended it to last forever. Art like this is more about making a statement, rather than making a feat of engineering.
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Re:Toto’s ‘Africa’ Will Play Forever on Loop in the Namib De... by sitkack on Friday December 18, 2020 @12:16AM (#25464129)
What is the statement, rich white Europeans leave trash in the sand?

edit, I don't think was even in the desert. The video is motion tracked. The artist is bad dancer with no butt hole.

https://vimeo.com/maxsiedentopf

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Re:Toto’s ‘Africa’ Will Play Forever on Loop in the Namib De... by core-questions on Friday December 18, 2020 @12:20AM (#25464146)
> Discotheque of the Long Now

makes you want to start the Sandbenders ( http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=80 ) and build the thing yourself

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