Oct 23 2008WTF?: Man 'Dances' With Heavy Machinery
This is some guy dancing with a 5-ton digger, and it's every bit as mecherotic as you'd expect.
'Transports Exceptionnels' is an experiment piece created by French dance group Compagnie Beau Geste. Unlike traditional ballets, this piece doesn't doesn't follow a narrative. Instead, the viewer is encouraged to find their own meaning.
Own meaning? Like what? That twisted f*** is trying to court a ditch digger.
Man and machine duet [reuters]
Thanks to Craig, who once danced with the devil in the pale moonlight.
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Reader Comments
1. BOOSH - October 23, 2008 5:15 PM
FIRST
BOOSH
2. BOOSH - October 23, 2008 5:17 PM
TOASTY!!!
damn.....
3. Elmo - October 23, 2008 5:18 PM
BUTTER!
sorry...
4. BOOSH - October 23, 2008 5:19 PM
watching this makes my heart warm up with fury
5. Daisy - October 23, 2008 5:22 PM
Fake!!
What a complete fake. Its an obvious photoshop job. You can tell because the shadows are all wrong.
It kinda looks like a reenactment of a scene from NEver Back Down.
6. Mcfeely Smackup - October 23, 2008 5:22 PM
well that was gay.
Actually, the fact that this douchebag thinks that's "dancing" tells me that he's not only NOT gay, but probably English.
The best (only) part was where his arm almost got dislocated and he had to roll over quickly.
7. boredom - October 23, 2008 5:24 PM
damn LSDiesel I didn't know you could dance...
8. Elmo - October 23, 2008 5:31 PM
so, no credit to the dude operating the machine trying not to pinch his f***ing head off?
9. Mike - October 23, 2008 5:36 PM
Mitchell Rose did this much more interestingly eight years ago in "Deere John":
http://www.mitchellrose.com/
10. Mike - October 23, 2008 5:42 PM
Mecherotic? Try homoerotic. That machine is a dude.
11. No.6 - October 23, 2008 5:46 PM
What a back-hoe....
12. Party Pooper - October 23, 2008 5:52 PM
"Fake!!
What a complete fake. Its an obvious photoshop job. You can tell because the shadows are all wrong."
Erm... Okay, the reason you would composite something is because it makes it easier or faster or allows you to create an object that doesn't exist. Everything here exists cheaply enough, doing this live would be about 100x faster (especially given the man's changing angles throughout the piece), and the shadows, are, well, totally accurate for midday overcast.
Also, Photoshop would not be what you would use for video . You could do it, but you'd be insane. After Effects, if you want to keep it in the adobe family.
Also, the 5-seconds it takes to do a google search shows that this is real.
Also, this is a Reuters piece.
I mean.... wow. Wrong, lazy, misinformed, and practically calling Reuters a liar. Jeepers. That is heck of a lot to do in one sentence. Let me see if I can try that:
"On CNN, I saw a CGI fake John McCain accidentally agree with Murtha. Totally fake. You can tell, because the crowd doesn't yell at him"
Actually, that was pretty easy.
13. I'm a Computer - October 23, 2008 5:55 PM
thowe thees is won dawnce potnah you wouldn't wont treading on yo towes.
14. I'm a Computer - October 23, 2008 5:56 PM
@12... Party Pooper indeed. Get the f*** out of my house.
15. JaC - October 23, 2008 5:59 PM
I dance with my lawnmower and no-one cares :(
16. malochey - October 23, 2008 6:12 PM
@12 Party Pooper = noob. hahaha
Keep it up, Daisy! But seriously, should I watch Never Back Down?
17. Mcfeely Smackup - October 23, 2008 6:24 PM
Over and over the noobs make dumbasses out of themselves.
Party Pooper, the joke is on you. douche
18. LSDiesel - October 23, 2008 6:25 PM
@16, as terribly AWFUL as the title is, NBD is actually not a horrible movie like so many of the band-wagoners on this site think it is.
19. Sharpie - October 23, 2008 6:34 PM
LSD sucks NBD BH.
20. Mike Hawk - October 23, 2008 7:18 PM
Dancing with the Cars. Don't forget to vote.
21. damn - October 23, 2008 7:55 PM
at least he's not trying to hump a dinosaur :-)
22. Joxer the Mighty - October 23, 2008 9:23 PM
I am Joxer the Mighty!
F*** you LSD! NBD is FAKE!
Also, f*** you geekologie writer and fish!
23. Kyle - October 24, 2008 12:02 AM
Awesome.
Now we need two excavators dancing with each other, or something like that.
24. Jonathan Dudley - October 24, 2008 4:03 AM
"Actually, the fact that this douchebag thinks that's "dancing" tells me that he's not only NOT gay, but probably English."
Because here in England we have a long and proud tradition of dancing with machines. Why only last week we held a special concert in Hyde Park where her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II did the macerina with a troupe of jack hammers.
Whats that word again, oh yes, "asshat".
25. RAMOND1!!!!11eone - October 24, 2008 6:33 AM
@6
F***ing idiot he was French, bet that your an ignorant American?
26. Douchie Mc Bagman - October 24, 2008 8:40 AM
France - England - whats the difference? Europe is one big (well not so big) country now. If the soup is cold and the beer is warm your in england. If you smell urine in the streets and people are rude your in france.
27. Thumperchica - October 24, 2008 8:49 AM
@24 - 25, He probably heard the other accents in the video and completely missed the whole french thing...
I know you're all going to stone me for this, but they should've been doing the robot.
28. Brian - October 24, 2008 9:19 AM
"I leave it to the audience to find meaning" is artist-talk for "Even I don't have a f***ing clue what this means, but I wanna do it, and if I call it art and tell you to find the meaning, I don't have to find it and I end up sounding all pretentious and artsy"
29. dliup - October 24, 2008 11:14 AM
Never Back Down is fake, you can tell because all the reviews puts it in the retarded imbecile rating. If you must get it, don't pay for it, as their way of promoting the photoshop hack job, that is more a 3am made for tv movie, is way annoying.
30. mamadough - October 24, 2008 11:51 AM
"more than a woman,
more than a woman to me"
name that movie!
31. Benjamin Tudino - October 24, 2008 12:04 PM
Saturday night fever
32. mamadough - October 24, 2008 12:48 PM
#31, no? maybe, that song might be in there. but this has to do with a dancing robot. try again.
33. Drunky - October 24, 2008 2:22 PM
@30 - Never Back Down?
34. mamadough - October 24, 2008 2:45 PM
no, no, no Goddammit! it's short circuit. f***ing short circuit. johhny 5 dances with that dude-looking chick.
35. m - October 24, 2008 2:51 PM
@12
i like the "wow. Wrong, lazy, misinformed". the irony is thick.
36. wrecks - October 29, 2008 5:30 AM
hippie.