I like the wordless sigh on his face right before he double-clicks the Max patch, like Shit, this is the eighteenth take, already. posted by Blazecock Pileon at 1:12 PM on October 27, 2008
This is pretty damn cool. Also check out this video of him debugging or this one of further experimentation. posted by The White Hat at 1:17 PM on October 27, 2008
Professor Hathaway: That's a wonderful story, Bodie. I noticed you've stopped stuttering.
blazecock: I'd call it a resigned sigh, if anything. posted by boo_radley at 1:20 PM on October 27, 2008
I'd like to see him try this with Huey Lewis and the News. I would like to see it. posted by Potomac Avenue at 1:24 PM on October 27, 2008
Egads, I'm not sure how the man can stand this. I find the sensation to be incredibly uncomfortable and awkward. But then I guess most of my experience with it was through the Russian stim method. It's probably not cranked up so high for the face. posted by six-or-six-thirty at 1:25 PM on October 27, 2008
See? Listening to shitty music makes you crazy. posted by Optamystic at 1:27 PM on October 27, 2008
Holy cats. That is cool with a capital Awesome. posted by uncleozzy at 1:33 PM on October 27, 2008
Heh. I've been recovering from Bell's Palsy for the last few months, and one of the most interesting but also annoying things about nerve repair is precisely what you see in this video. As damaged nerves are re-connected, the particular muscles that are controlled by those nerves twitch. It feels really weird (and can sometimes hurt) because it often contracts a tiny muscle that usually works in tandem with a whole group of other facial muscles. Sometimes the tic goes away after a few minutes—a sort of "hello! I'm back online!"—sometimes is stays for much longer, going hypertonic.
Thankfully, my face hasn't been quite as active as this guy's, but it's just as bizarre for me when I'm in the middle of teaching a class or speaking to a friend, and I feel one small muscle start jumping around around my eyebrow or my cheek. I'm waiting for someone I don't know well to stop me and say, "Um, I think you're having a stroke." posted by LMGM at 1:48 PM on October 27, 2008 [4 favorites has favorites]
Actually, I kinda adore that one. The colour is super-saturated and he manages to push out the liquid (milk?) in a stream that stays pretty solid. The slow-mo and the smoothed-out contours of the liquid made it seem less liquid and more solid or gelatinous. Mmmm, textures.
Mind you, if you prefer your gloopy white substances on sexy librarians in dentist chairs, here's MSTRKRFT's Easy Love (SFW, but rather suggestive). posted by LMGM at 1:56 PM on October 27, 2008 [1 favorite has favorites]
He looks like my bunny when he's having a dream. Twitch twitch. If only he snarfed a little too. posted by rmless at 2:06 PM on October 27, 2008 [2 favorites has favorites]
This reminded me of this short film of hands animated to a brassy soundtrack -- I'd seen it many years ago at an animation festival. All I could find was this, which disturbed me a little more than this dude. So: right back atcha, chrismear! posted by not_on_display at 2:16 PM on October 27, 2008
I'm trying to figure out the relationship between the facially applied current and the music. Is there a common midi score, triggering shocks and sounds? Or is there some other way of deriving the pattern of shocks from the music? One way or another its cool 'cause it looks as if the music is playing him, rather than the more usual way around. Loss of agency. That way madness lies. posted by fcummins at 3:00 PM on October 27, 2008 [2 favorites has favorites]
At that time daguerreotype photography required sitting for a minute or more, so the electrical stimulation was used to induce facial expressions that could be frozen for that long. posted by StickyCarpet at 4:53 PM on October 27, 2008
As you said, mecran01, I got a phone call and sat in preview for almost 3 hours. posted by StickyCarpet at 4:54 PM on October 27, 2008
Awesome. Almost all the athletes I know who've had stim admit to turning it up higher than they are supposed to every once in a while to induce twitching. In that context, this is just the next, artier step. posted by dame at 5:33 PM on October 27, 2008
LMGM: Mind you, if you prefer your gloopy white substances on sexy librarians in dentist chairs, here's MSTRKRFT's Easy Love (SFW, but rather suggestive).
Maybe Sarah Palin's podium microphones were badly grounded....
This wasn't one Palin post too many...right? uh oh.... posted by Kronos_to_Earth at 6:19 PM on October 27, 2008
Impossibly, this post remains and my post is deleted.
I guess it's because no one could think of a Sarah Palin-related comment to go with it.
Too funny. posted by Zambrano at 6:43 PM on October 27, 2008
You have it backwards.
face stimulus to electric posted by pmbuko at 7:01 PM on October 27, 2008
Which post, Zambrano? posted by cjorgensen at 8:19 PM on October 27, 2008
In my day, we did this sort of face-dancing-to-music thing manually. posted by revmitcz at 9:03 PM on October 27, 2008
This is what happens when you give an animal self awareness. Sure, first it might be neat that they have a developed sense of "self" and can recognize themselves in a mirror. But before you know it, they're hooking electrodes to their faces and watching them twitch for fun.
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