Sadly, car co's will never fire-sale their cars. It dilutes their brand and could ruin their image ("Hey, I bought one last week at full price!"). They will crush them or cut them up for scrap before they sell them off cheap.
Oh, and the test track was not built to store cars. It was probably just not being used and they needed land to park the cars.
I think Roberts flubbed the oath so they'll have a (lame) technicality to kick Obama out of office for some petty reason. Okay, I don't _really_ think that, but I don't put shenanigans like that past the conservatards on the court. Now if just a couple of them would retire, we'd be set for a while.
That was awesome. Reminds me very much of a movie some friends made years ago about a group of plague survivors in San Francisco and how they dealt with day to day living. There were no zombies, but there were the "wild" people who shunned the groups living in the city and became unsocial psychopaths living off the land in the mountains. The people had to make the best of salvaging a slowly decaying world.
Anyway, great show premise since it tightly encapsulates human nature, desire and survival instinct. I wish a thoughtful, quality sci-fi show like this could make it on the air.
Seems like a pretty arbitrary set of criteria for what is "best". I'm sure there are many jobs on the "worst" list that are actually more appealing to people than sitting at an office desk all day.
I realize that some on the worst list are dirty, unskilled jobs, but the study doesn't take into account that, maybe even when given all the choices, there are some who would prefer to work on cars or be a child care worker than be a statistician.
It seems creepy and a little "unbalanced" to me, but after seeing what some friends, relatives and coworkers have gone through in their attempts to conceive or carry a healthy child to term, it doesn't really surprise me that much.
In some ways, it reminds me of those nature documentaries where an animal's egg gets stolen and it goes right on preparing the nest, storing food, etc. I realize that's more pure instinct on the animal's part, but I think the nesting/parenting drive is incredibly strong in many animals, including ourselves, even to the point of self-delusion and make-believe.
Nice stuff, in that "rich, cosmetic surgeon waiting room wall art" kind of way. Her drawing on her site are more interesting than the paper cut work, imho. Though at one time I was something of a power user of an X-acto blade, too, and don't envy her finger cramps.
Also, the video on her site is much better than the embedded one:
Ummmm....okaaaaay. What about the 5400 US nook-u-ler warheads scattered around the country/world? I suspect if things really did get all Red Dawn on us that nukes would definitely be in play. The hard part would be deciding which Canadian or Mexican cities were actually worth nuking.
Agreed: fake-a-roo. There's no way the people's clothes would stay cemented in position as they are lowered into a horizontal position (on top of a car, yet!). If the subjects lowered themselves somehow (hanging from monkey bars?), there's just no way they could leave imprints that clean. Also, considering the amount of detail present, the edges of the imprints seem very soft and blurry, which indicates a lazy Photoshop job. What betrays this is the few where blemishes and mistakes appear. Clever touch, if they're fakes.
OTOH, a couple seem very plausible, like the hands/face only ones. But the poster's comments are funny - what's a point & shoot camera? I know this used to be a type of camera, but aren't all cameras P&S now? And why no pics of them making the "sculptures? That would have sealed the deal as real for me.
I'm half tempted to replicate the effect in PS just to see what it would look like.
Oh, and the test track was not built to store cars. It was probably just not being used and they needed land to park the cars.
:-)
Anyway, great show premise since it tightly encapsulates human nature, desire and survival instinct. I wish a thoughtful, quality sci-fi show like this could make it on the air.
I realize that some on the worst list are dirty, unskilled jobs, but the study doesn't take into account that, maybe even when given all the choices, there are some who would prefer to work on cars or be a child care worker than be a statistician.
In some ways, it reminds me of those nature documentaries where an animal's egg gets stolen and it goes right on preparing the nest, storing food, etc. I realize that's more pure instinct on the animal's part, but I think the nesting/parenting drive is incredibly strong in many animals, including ourselves, even to the point of self-delusion and make-believe.
And "wow" should be banned, if only from my own overuse.
Also, the video on her site is much better than the embedded one:
http://wetheat.tv/Stark-DriveBy.html
Sorry, one ticket to hell, please.
OTOH, a couple seem very plausible, like the hands/face only ones. But the poster's comments are funny - what's a point & shoot camera? I know this used to be a type of camera, but aren't all cameras P&S now? And why no pics of them making the "sculptures? That would have sealed the deal as real for me.
I'm half tempted to replicate the effect in PS just to see what it would look like.