Robotperson

Sy tips us off to this superbly topical parody / commentary on Blu-Ray’s all-but-victory in the high-def DVD format war: (profanity warning)

Can I be the first to go on record and state that I believe the Heathrow airliner crash yesterday was caused by a mistimed electromagnetic pulse weapon, intended to bring down the Prime Minister’s plane on take-off. It certainly would have killed all the electronics instantly in exactly the way the pilots describe, and they’re […]

“Don’t hold back”
As I sit in the balcony of the Brighton Centre, waiting with a heavily pregnant Lara for the Chemical Brothers to ignite, I recognise the opening strains of Galvanise. A smile spreads across my face.
“Don’t hold back”
I lean over and shout in her ear: “They’re sending us a message. They’re setting out their […]

Robotperson regulars will know what a big fan I am of Adam Curtis’ 2005 documentary The Power of Nightmares. It was a superb look at how American neoconservatism dovetails with radical Islamism (watch it here - that’s an order).
This Sunday Curtis is back. The Trap - whatever happened to our freedom? is a three-parter, and […]

Last week JJ forwarded a message where an unimpressed Em queried the Observer’s 25 greatest gigs ever. She asked for top-10s in reply, and compiling mine turned into a nostalgic evening spent reminiscing. With added liner notes, and in no particular order, here they are:

Leftfield - Liveism at Brixton, ‘96. Famous as the gig […]

Have you ever spotted an 8-bit style, mosaic tile space-invader, glued somewhere high up in your urban environment? These are the work of Space Invader, a mysterious (by dint of anonymity) French chap, who by doing so is making a commentary on invasion of our urban spaces. Or something like that.
Since the new year he’s […]

Further to my post below, there are many videos of man-machine, Peter Crouch doing the robot on You-tube. Here’s the pick of them:

It’s the little shimmy at the end you’ve got to love.