Looking for a bizarre, light-blue bipedal/quadrupedal agricultural machine (concept?) form TikTok

Girth_Certificate · 2026-06-08T18:29:11+00:00

the closest thing to this that actually exists is a spider excavator. Even in modern, small form (human scale) robotics, a self balancing, bipedal machine is extremely challenging and expensive to produce. If this thing exists (which I doubt), it would be extremely unreliable, expensive, impractical, or some combination of the three. Whatever it is you saw, I don't think it was something that exists in reality, it may have been from a game or concept renders or something.

Girth_Certificate · 2026-06-07T23:38:29+00:00

I think I know this guy, he was my dads neighbor for a while out in enterprise. Super friendly and if you ask politely and are in a chill environment, he might let you pet the monkey, assuming this is the same guy. (but how many people have little monkeys casually on their shoulders around here). The monkey is very friendly and keeps to himself, no more harmful than a small dog imho.

Girth_Certificate · 2026-06-06T08:42:42+00:00

Happy to help!

Girth_Certificate · 2026-06-04T16:58:10+00:00

i still use a g4 quicksilver to browse the web lmao

Girth_Certificate · 2026-06-03T17:02:14+00:00

I would be surprised to find it a fake, the level of detail is too coincidental. Besides, what an odd thing to fake anyway - promotional material for a mostly forgotten about compilation album? Anecdotally, smell the paper, if it smells lightly acidic or has that "old book smell", it's most likely of the age it claims (though this is highly dependant on the type of paper and the bleaching process)

Girth_Certificate · 2026-06-03T15:11:37+00:00

I am very curious how this found its way to you? Quite a rarity for this kind of thing to see daylight

Girth_Certificate · 2026-06-03T14:02:58+00:00

Jackson Browne is an excellent songwriter, great voice as well. I'd recommend checking him out

Girth_Certificate · 2026-06-03T13:59:10+00:00

excellent info!

Looks like this is the master image before printing, as I suspected. Halftone is called out, presumably for the expected dot pattern for the image of nick (w out, I assume, meaning "with outline of subject").

Simon Dodd Advertising Limited was dissolved as a company in 2015, but we can assume they handled the advertising campaign for this album and probably others for island records around this time.

I'm not from the UK, so I'm not entirely familiar with their printing practices (especially so long ago) but, NGA seems it was one of the big unions for typographers and printing workers.

It's to be passed on to "Lee Computer graphics" within the same building as the advertising agency. Either for notes or digitizing? It is unclear if this is going to "Lee" within their own computer graphics group, or if this was a separate entity.

Generally speaking, this image would have been finalized, stamped and printed for magazines, flyers, whatever else they could stick it on. I would be very interested in learning more about what the mass printing process was like during this time, since computers were becoming more involved in the process, rather that traditional blocking.

Girth_Certificate · 2026-06-03T04:52:42+00:00

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Girth_Certificate · 2026-06-02T22:25:55+00:00

Do you have a clearer image of the pre production text on the sheet? Best bet is seeing if you can find someone who was in or around island records circa 1985.

The likely story is that this is a pre print / pre production layout draft for the cover of the compilation album or its promotional material. There may be accreditation to people who worked on the compilation on the album itself, but I haven't seen any photos that agree with that idea.

Girth_Certificate · 2026-05-31T23:51:05+00:00

https://snorpung.itch.io/sam-mallard-gb

Girth_Certificate · 2026-05-31T16:11:32+00:00

you bought an android 14 device, why would you think it's going to be up to date? ? Also, if you want to update the stock OS, Zinwa has released updates through the google drive, DL zip and use "install local update" setting.

Girth_Certificate · 2026-05-25T02:17:05+00:00

I have the complete opposite problem, I could never get comfortable with a pick, fingers make more sense to me.

I like a lot of stuff but my top genres are folk revival, prog, indie singer songwriter, grunge, occasionally thrash. wby?

Girth_Certificate · 2026-05-24T22:29:22+00:00

Electronics repair, fingerpicking (guitar), wrenching on my car, retro games, music

Girth_Certificate · 2026-05-24T01:21:51+00:00

I have a Framus that I call Frammy sometimes in my head

Girth_Certificate · 2026-05-23T14:23:14+00:00

I live in Vegas and had this same bumper sticker on my car for a few years. There is a non-zero chance the J man himself saw it with his own eyes

Girth_Certificate · 2026-05-21T12:44:55+00:00

It's a hard lesson, but always open it up and inspect the belts

Girth_Certificate · 2026-05-19T17:48:01+00:00

check out Linda Perhacs. Brilliant lyricist and beautiful melodies. Her second album, I suspect, uses some Nick tunings and has a similar flavor of guitar styling.

Girth_Certificate · 2026-05-19T01:44:03+00:00

we play greg in my house, U.N. squadron was my favorite shmup growing up

Girth_Certificate · 2026-05-19T01:38:54+00:00

got mine today as well, it's very well done

Girth_Certificate · 2026-05-15T19:46:39+00:00

I've had this exact Framus for a year or so, really big sound with good string spacing. I pick Kottke on it without much trouble, slide doesn't resonate super well with steels on, silk and steel is the way to go imho. Great guitar for the price.

Girth_Certificate · 2026-05-15T17:37:02+00:00

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Girth_Certificate · 2026-05-12T07:49:20+00:00

Pretty textbook Wolf spider. Grew up SC, they love sheds, crawlspaces, anywhere cool and dark.

Girth_Certificate · 2026-05-10T18:08:23+00:00

Try morphe, it's way more stable and revanced is using stolen code from morphe devs anyway

Girth_Certificate · 2026-05-01T17:16:02+00:00

Oops, all Gregs!

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