27 Nov 09 Chord Friday: Total Eclipse of the Heart – Bonnie Tyler
Bobby J from the Hull Ukulele Group tells me that this is a solid gold uke hit. Im not convinced, but since i have nothing else to stick up today, i’ll give him the benefit of the doubt!
25 Nov 09 Dance of the bots
The Nutcracker performed by Dancing Kiva Order Fulfillment Robots
20 Nov 09 Robot Fairy ‘Lovies’ in Shakespeare play
Check this out..
Gadgets are overwhelmingly concerned with immediacy and functionality, but a production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Texas A&M University reminds us that technology, when applied creatively, can be timeless and transcendent.
Amy Hopper, the play’s director, cast one autonomous, military-grade flying robot and five smaller remote control devices as fairies in Shakespeare’s comedy. “To see them flying, spinning and bouncing through the air just adds to the magic and mystery of the world Shakespeare created,” she explained.
I must admit that i find this short clip AMAZING, especially the point where the ‘fairy’ lands on the actresses hand.
I for one welcome our new robot fairy ‘lovies’ 
Link via Gizmodo
Tags: Robots, Tiny Robots
20 Nov 09 Chords Friday: After Hours – Velvet Underground
I love this song. I have done for years and years. Its perhaps a little ‘twee’ conpared to some of The Velvet Undergound’s earlier stuff, but it has that same ‘show tunes’ feel that features in Lou Reed’s later work. It appeared on their 3rd album, and was sung by the drummer, Maureen (Mo) Tucker
After Hours – The Velvet Underground
So put those drum sticks down and get warbling along to this one in a Mo’ Tucker Stylee
11 Nov 09 Roomba Pac-Man
Clever chaps make their own version of Pac-man using Roomba vacuum cleaners, computers, paper & sticky tape.
visit the project website here – http://pacman.elstonj.com/
09 Nov 09 Flute Hero on Rockband
09 Nov 09 Giant Robot FTW t-shirt
Cool T-shirt today from Teefury. For those who havent heard of them before, Teefury sell excellent, strictly time-limited runs of t-shirts for only $9. But the catch is that you only have 24 hours to buy – once they’re gone, they’re gone forever!!
Keep checking the site for new shirts – http://www.teefury.com/
Tags: Giant Robots, Robots, tshirt
08 Nov 09 And it burns burns burns…
I decided to knock out a quick chord sheet for Ring of Fire by Johnny Cash in honor of Bonfire night last Thursday. We’re going to have a go of it at this Monday’s Hull Ukulele Group.
Its only 3 chords – G, C, D, and its so familiar that it was almost a pointless exercise doing it! BUT ive tabbed out the Brass parts for ukulele which makes it much more fun if theres more than one of you!!
Tags: chords, Hull Ukulele Group, ukulele
06 Nov 09 Chord Friday: Just cant get enough – drunken Hull Ukulele Group version
Originally performed by Depeche Mode, and covered by Nouvelle Vague, The Saturdays, and now a few members of the Hull Ukulele Group.
We made the video a while back, but ive only just got round to writing up a decent version of the chordsheet
Just cant get enough – Depeche Mode
As you’ll see, theres nothing complicated about it, and i think it sounds quite nice on the uke
Tags: chords, Hull Ukulele Group, ukulele
05 Nov 09 Monkeys and bears play musical instruments
Not content with riding bicylces together, it seems that monkeys and bears have a long history of partaking in leisure interests together.
“Monkeys got a squeeze-box, Yogi doesnt sleep at night…”
