My last few blogs have been about IRs recent noodling with other forms of internet media and this blog is no exception...
Now, for your viewing pleasure, on the IR youtube channel are some more vidoes.
One is a music video for the Infinite Regress song "Godzilla vs La Jolla"
The other is a short film documentary/mockumentary about the work that I was doing in Finland in 2007. It is called Bang Sensitivity: The Movie. It premiered at work when I presented it along side my actual findings in the experiment (data not shown). If you are curious, the experiment was basically to test how sensitive mutant flies were to mechanical stress (vigorous shaking). When shook, normal "wild type" flies immediately get up and begin normal fly like behavior, at worst, being a little bit pissed off. The mutant flies, on the other hand, would go into paralytic seizures and lay motionless on their backs for up to 10 minutes (after 10 min. they were considered deceased) while occasionally spazzing out and flapping their wings at such high velocities that they would spin in circles. I "vortexed" each fly individually for 10 seconds and timed their recovery. Over the course of the experiment I vortexed probably more than 2000 flies, many of which remained immobile for the max of 10 minutes. I had to do all of this in a small closet of a room with no windows that was kept at a steady 25 degrees Celsius.
Available on the internet for the 1st time, the unabridged Bang Sensitivity: The Movie
I hope you enjoy.
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