Robot Sings Still Alive
First I thought this was computer animation, but it’s footage of an actual robot built by Interbots, a crazy robot-making company that spun off from a crazy robot-making project at Carnegie Mellon. Hooray for robots!
First I thought this was computer animation, but it’s footage of an actual robot built by Interbots, a crazy robot-making company that spun off from a crazy robot-making project at Carnegie Mellon. Hooray for robots!
November 19th, 2007 at 4:33 pm
That was weird, I especially like the way the color change to reflect the moods of the song…
November 19th, 2007 at 5:06 pm
Best comment ever:
“I can’t wait until robots get suffisticated [sic]. I want a robot friend.”
November 19th, 2007 at 6:59 pm
What’s up with the dogfish?
November 19th, 2007 at 7:25 pm
I loved the dogfish! I assumed it was the result of Science.
November 19th, 2007 at 9:05 pm
I happened on this neat cello instrumental of ‘Still Alive’ while looking around YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNY2d747b-o&feature=related
BTW, I saw your show in Austin and it was great. I hope you add ‘Still Alive’ to your live reportoire. It’s about the only thing that would have made the show better. Come back please, I’ll go again, and bring half a dozen friends this time!
November 19th, 2007 at 10:00 pm
I think that is a cake on the ground in front of Moxi. A cupcake in one of those new footy-style silicon cupcake minipans they are selling at the houseware stores.
November 20th, 2007 at 12:51 am
WHAAaaaaT!?!?!?!?!? Like i can’t tune my own guitar without a robot????!?!?!?!?!
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November 20th, 2007 at 4:51 am
so, y’know how she looks at the beginning of the second verse? That’s pretty much the spitting image I get when I think of “Creepy Doll”… Just thought I should throw that out there
November 20th, 2007 at 8:00 am
“I’m not angry” - Eyes go blazing red….
Reminded me of Gir out of Invader Zim… One moment cute and friendly, the next homicidal…
Though it does say something about how much a robots eye colour can affect the way it interacts with humans…
November 20th, 2007 at 9:28 am
Other treats: disco remix of still alive: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJp_PTutGrA&feature=related
Another remix: (not with the Jonathan Coulton music, but lots of samples from the game) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3KiVpdwLWY&feature=related
November 21st, 2007 at 10:24 am
This is the first step towards a warrior robot race.
I’ll be hiding in my bunker now.
November 24th, 2007 at 10:33 am
Hey if you like singing robots try http://www.capturedbyrobots.com/ Captured by Robots…the only human in the band built all the robots that play with him….
November 24th, 2007 at 7:45 pm
One more: Jonathan performs ‘Still Alive’ solo, with a guitar (while some dude eats cake)–http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxNmeMklFk8
This is a really good version, but it also kind of shows how good Ellen McLean is. In Jonathan’s hands it’s a relly good song, but when Ellen sings it, GlaDos becomes alive and real. Coulton’s vocals are great, but for this song, McLean’s are better. Not a surprize, since it was written for her character, so it a way it shows what a good songwriter JoCo is, too.
November 24th, 2007 at 7:46 pm
The stupic comment parser munged up turning the URL into a link. Somebody needs to hire a better code monkey.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxNmeMklFk8