Michael Arnzen: Fast Company ran a good story on the way that Pepsi appropriated elements of this...
Elsa: See this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =PzEqYhUZAoc
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Leslie Rodriguez: Great post!
Heidi Ruby Miller: I can see the appeal in this type of iconography…I mean, who hasn’t...
Michael Arnzen: Another recent, related blog entry by John S: http://digitalculture-ed.ne...
“When all is said and done, the quality of uncanniness can only come from the fact of the ‘double’ being a creation dating back to a very early mental stage, long since surmounted — a stage, incidentally, at which it wore a more friendly aspect. The ‘double’ has become a thing of terror, just as, after the collapse of their religion, the gods turned into demons.”
— , “The Uncanny” (1919)
The Crowbot by 'Cozy Rampage'
“On a distant Ag planet, there are robotic scarecrows to mind the vast farming fields…” — From toy designer “Cozy Rampage”
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