plastique monkey » deputydog http://www.plastiquemonkey.com yuka yamaguchi's art blog Mon, 22 Dec 2008 06:56:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3 en my favorite websites :: milk magazine http://www.plastiquemonkey.com/2007/10/11/my-favorite-websites-milk-magazine/ http://www.plastiquemonkey.com/2007/10/11/my-favorite-websites-milk-magazine/#comments Fri, 12 Oct 2007 04:29:24 +0000 yuka http://www.plastiquemonkey.com/2007/10/11/my-favorite-websites-milk-magazine/

milk magazine (fashion & culture magazine from hong kong), asked me about my favorite websites. videosift is by far the most entertaining website that i like. nowadays, i don’t really have time to browse websites, but i check videosift everyday to find something amusing. paul and i joined as a sifter over a year ago. we post videos that we both like.

at one point, plastiquemonkey became the number one sifter on videosift. i screensaved it because i knew it wouldn’t last long. as a matter of fact, it lasted about 5 minutes. another sifter, name deputydog, passed us right away and shot up to the top. but then he stopped sifting and started his own very popular website.

my 5 favorite websites:

  1. VideoSift
    –> this is a community website where people submit videos and the community votes on them. it’s an amazing selection. finding a favorite sifter is like finding a gem box - full of fascinating things. my favorite sifters are “rickegee“, “farhad2000” and “mlx“.
  2. Deputy Dog
    –> a very entertaining blog by someone i met through videosift. he has a great talent for finding interesting things.
  3. Kanshin Kuukan (”Interest Space”)
    –> a japanese community site where people write about whatever interests them. i click on random tags and read things that are new to me.
  4. Design*Sponge
    –> probably my favorite design blog.
  5. Go-Kyokun (”Your Daily Lesson”)
    –> a japanese website where people send in puns and funny lines. judges decide which line will get published — one per day. it’s very funny and i can start my day with a good laugh.
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the dancing robot is called Keepon. it’s dancing to “i turn my camera on”, by spoon. it gets the rhythm from the music and changes the pattern of its dance.

from the inventor’s website:

“We are currently developing and studying dance-oriented nonverbal play with between children and the robot Keepon, designed and built by Hideki Kozima. Keepon is a small creature-like robot developed to perform emotional and attentional interaction with children. It has four degrees of freedom, a soft rubber skin, two cameras in its eyes, and a microphone in its nose”

more here…

via videosift superstar deputydog…

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