Waterfall

[Grigori E.R.]

Many friends asking Grigori for advice lately. Lots with questions about economy. I am but humble Spiritual Advisor, so best I can do is drawings from old friend :



Maybe needing Plumber instead of Economic Advisors?



Or Carpenter?


Special thanks to old friend Max Escher and his Art; "Waterfall" and "the Belvedere".

[Comrade_Tovarich]

Comrade Grigori E.R.,

Comrade Escher was ahead of his time. Just as Professor Alan Sokal showed that gravity is a social construct, capitalism is a 3D illusion. With the election of Comrade Obama, we will, hand in hand, progress to the 4th Dimension Reality. This is also called a Worker's Utopia.

[Premier Betty]

W007. I like Escher stuff. 'Tis be one of the reasons I got Echocrome

[Comrade_Tovarich]

W007. I like Escher stuff. 'Tis be one of the reasons I got Echocrome

Comrade Premier Betty,

While I could get shot for writing it, that's a pretty cool capitalist tool. It's a lot better than Tetris!

[Grigori E.R.]

Comrades,
"4th Dimension Reality" Exactly. Maybe Obamaverse?
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Love those Japanese, still I have a fondness for US tech:

Grandson was down from Penn State. Showing me his new Mac book. He turned the screen so I could see better and it said, Hi Granpa.

He has the latest iPod too. Caught the thing rummaging through my parts box. I think it was building an HK. Told it, Time out, and it went in the corner and sulked.

[Premier Betty]

that's a pretty cool capitalist tool. It's a lot better than Tetris!

Si. However, it is quite difficult. I haven't even made it half way through the game and I've already been stumped numerous times. The demo videos make it seem easy.

[Comrade_Tovarich]

Comrades,

I don't know if it made it to the US, but there was advertised on TV here some years ago a video game (for which OS/unit, I don't recall) in which you start the game as a glue ball or something then roll about, snowballing, attaching to yourself litter, flies, pets, fence posts, pedestrians, mopeds, etc.

Never did I play it, so the goal of the game was lost on me. Was it to become so large a ball of accumulated junk that the Earth itself stuck to you?

Come to think of it, perhaps the game was actually a political and social commentary and indoctrination device.

[Comrade_Tovarich]

Comrades,

There is in Japan a children's show called Pythagoras Switch, (link here) which can be quite clever. Every episode used to end with an intricate Rube Goldberg device (video of 8-9 samples here).

Every episode also has the "Algorithm March," (video here, with a solo performance followed by a team performance). Always it is the same, but it takes place in different places and involves different people; e.g., in an airplane hangar with a flight crew and mechanics or a hospital with nurses and doctors. Everyone working together happily in perfect synchronicity and harmony to achieve a clear goal--very Japanese (in a good way).
<br>Oh, there are also Framey the dog videos (sample here) that are like Tex Avery, but tamer and masquerading as Piet Mondrian.

The person who does or inspires most of this is a science prof in Japan somewhere.

[Premier Betty]

I don't know if it made it to the US, but there was advertised on TV here some years ago a video game (for which OS/unit, I don't recall) in which you start the game as a glue ball or something then roll about, snowballing, attaching to yourself litter, flies, pets, fence posts, pedestrians, mopeds, etc.

I think that's Katamari you're thinking about. Yeah, it made it to the US, as did several sequels. Apparently they were really popular. It seems kind of fun, but a little to weird for my tastes. I prefer my puzzle games to be more... cool.

[Grigori E.R.]

"glue ball or something then roll about, snowballing, attaching to yourself litter, flies, pets, fence posts, pedestrians, mopeds, etc."

Reminds me of the one real change maker "the Black Hole". While we know it's Nature's way of recycling the Universe, it's not much fun if you're next in line.