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AGREE!!
Silly robot, buses are for kids
A classic episode :) So how are these episodes created. Is it Joanne in combination with the producer / cameraman etc? Or are more people involved?
Yaeh!
Good Job
Greetings from Germany
Great, I love it!
I tried this online once, but the turnout was quite different because you can’t select the people who participate :-) I believe there are still websites out there that work in a similar way.
To continue the story:
“One of the animals that fell from the tree into the bus was a snail. She was in a bad mood as the fall had cracked her shell somewhat. ‘What are you rushing around like that for?’ she asked the robot”
…
Very Cool :)
Greetings from Ireland.
I’m visiting NY next week and will be watching out for Joanne and camera to see if I can wangle an on street interview.
one of the best eps in recent memory! More, please!!!
THE ROAD NOT TAKEN
Two roads diverged afore my yellow bus,
On a rainy day in Fargo.
And be one robot, long I cussed,
Whilst behind me I heard a fuss,
From my troubled diseased cargo.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and Iâ€â€
I took the one less traveled by,
And that is how I lost my feet.
That’s a cool idea. Collaboration is a great idea, not just for writing.
However I’ve learned from this video that I’m a little disturbed by the ugly eyewear that NYCers seem to be using these days. Perhaps it will come to pass.
I want to see a video of 100 people sneezing.
FAIRYTALE OF NEW YORK
by Shane MacGowan & Jem Finer, The Pogues
It was Christmas Eve babe
In the drunk tank
An old man said to me, won’t see another one
And then he sang a song
The Rare Old Mountain Dew
I turned my face away
And dreamed about you
Got on a lucky one
Came in eighteen to one
I’ve got a feeling
This year’s for me and you
So happy Christmas
I love you baby
I can see a better time
When all our dreams come true
They’ve got cars big as bars
They’ve got rivers of gold
But the wind goes right through you
It’s no place for the old
When you first took my hand
On a cold Christmas Eve
You promised me
Broadway was waiting for me
You were handsome
You were pretty
Queen of New York City
When the band finished playing
They howled out for more
Sinatra was swinging,
All the drunks they were singing
We kissed on a corner
Then danced through the night
The boys of the NYPD choir
Were singing “Galway Bay”
And the bells were ringing out
For Christmas day
You’re a bum
You’re a punk
You’re an old slut on junk
Lying there almost dead on a drip in that bed
You scumbag, you maggot
You cheap lousy faggot
Happy Christmas your arse
I pray God it’s our last
I could have been someone
Well so could anyone
You took my dreams from me
When I first found you
I kept them with me babe
I put them with my own
Can’t make it all alone
I’ve built my dreams around you
First class job, guys. Kudos.
First class job, guys. Kudos.
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that was a really nice show .. .[/]
the shows have been getting better and i really enjoy the selection of music chosen as of late.. . it’s tip top .. .
I’ve tried doing that sort of thing, but we never get to any sort of closure!
Looks like you can tell a lot about a person from the way they read things aloud.
J.K Rowling approves this casual Friday
Boy did this bring back memories. In ye olden daze when me and my friends of yore indulged in the “smoke” of the goddess cannibusty, we used to create stories out of the ether each contributing a sentence or two as depicted so wonderfully today. However, our stories went inter-galactic as the substance we imbibed wove a tale so great it caused a tidal wave in Indonesia. Boy, did we have some good laughs…those belly laughs
where you just can’t stop. Wish we had taped them. Thanx for the memories.
but did the children ever make it home?
Bonjour,
another history written during
a voyage of his author, in Brittany
( Saint Renan, close to Brest ).
I dedicate this poem to Joanne.
http://cjoint.com/?ccpFYMcPZq
An inspired view :
http://cjoint.com/?ccpKbYUg1a
Good WE,
S.
For the music, listen also “Les V.R.P.”, since 1988!
(fr) http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_VRP
The realistic neo-punk french songs…
Luckily, the mechanic heard the crash, fixed the bus with the rest of the robots parts, the animals that fell from the tree drove the bus to the White House where they picked up George Bush. The animals explained the story to the President. After hearing the amazing, but true story and having a missing a part of his own, “W” then drove the bus back to the best mechanic in the land…
Hey Nab,
Let’s try to keep the comments constructive and friendly eh?
why not try to actually keep the story going rb has started, instead of starting your own in which you don’t know what your talking about.
what does taking pot-shots accomplish in life? does it make you feel good about yourself?
geesh!
My compliments - this was a really great idea you had. We did a similar thing years ago in school (yes, parallel to the ongoing class and never being discovered), which was absolute fun. You think you have a brilliant idea how the story might evolve, but someone else might have might have something completely different in mind. How large was your success-rate in asking people to participate? Discovered any new talents out on the street?
Congratulations!
Collaboration = wonderful.
Not band handwriting either . . .
Very cool love the music :D …
I love this kind of stuff. Everyone has a story to tell - can’t say mine involves robots though. Must be more inventive…
Hey, what happened to Sherng-Lee?
I don’t see his name on the list of current Rocketboom staff.
I liked that a lot. We used to have stories like that online …
Is it just me… or did y’all find a disproportionate number of lefties to write in that book? It seems so from the film.
:)
Which is fine with me.
- a lefty
You know why I love RB? It makes me smile; a nice unexpected smile.
The serious reader with the rep tie and the blue tooth headset killed me. Such emo! Well done.
I took the cross town bus across Central Park South the other day and I think my bus driver was a robot.
I liked the beginning with you, Joanne, sitting at the window writing–such a NYC experience. So reassuring to see people doing that at the eternal cafe. Story was okay but suffered from male needs to have aggression/tearing apart the poor robot. Could you have saved the story by adding your own ending?
Delightful episode. The man with the tie needs to quit going to trade shows or whatever he does and start writing stories. He’s totally into it!!
What’s the old saw about “a million robots and a million typewriters”? Ok, not quite that bad, but art by committee is usually a bad idea. For all the same reasons that a lot of interactive storytelling is just plain dull.
On a positive note, from earlier this week, hearing, “Ex, why and ZED”, is so refreshing.
Cheers from the T-dot.
very nice!
I have tried to view February 2nd’s Rocketboom on both my business computer on a dsl line and my home laptop on a wireless dsl and neither loads the program.
I just get stuck with the Quicktime logo.
Yes, that worked.
Thanks.
How GRRRRRREAT idea….it seemed a bit silly at the beginning of the video, but when I’ve realized you were going to “make” a chain of tales…..just love this way to write…so creative, so nice…I love anything that can be related to the concept “many people involved in one single task”…
CONGRATULATIONS. I’m addicted to rocketboom and I think I will for a long long long time (in a distant future…lol)
Love your stuff. Your people interaction is surperb.
Here is our winter vacation spot…cheers
http://tinyurl.com/2ukcmq
Great work guys! Love the edit and the idea!
Cheers!
Michal
Wow, that was cool. I hope it gets mailed around the world so the story can continue.