Awareness test

[ljharmitt]

clocked this on TV the other night......sorry if you've already seen it.

VERY clever..and needs volume (no, it's not a scare the poo out of you thing...you need to listen to the instructions!)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=oSQJP40PcGI

[arenalife]

That demonstrates everything about why we're invisible on the road.

[ljharmitt]

ok so who rewinded the video to see if they were being BS'd? lol

[jamessunhill]

1 here

[Alpinestarhero]

ok so who rewinded the video to see if they were being BS'd? lol

Yep, I did! Excellent video, and shows how you can miss an awefull lot of things when out riding - and how people can miss you easily aswell.

Ride safe people, and dont assume anyone knows you are there

Matt

[Spiderman]

ok so who rewinded the video to see if they were being BS'd? lol

me!

God i'm rubbish....and paranoid too clearly!

good vid :)

[Sosha]

Kind of cool but...
Bit like saying - "so you spotted the cowpat on the apex but did you see the bloke servicing a sheep in the field?"

No?

[Alpinestarhero]

There was a cowpat on the apex?!

[simesb]

Kind of cool but...
Bit like saying - "so you spotted the cowpat on the apex but did you see the bloke servicing a sheep in the field?"

No?

Yes! If you counted passes for an hour or so a day, 5/6 days a week, you may have seen the moonwalk. Bit like Keith Code's $10....

[Gene genie]

thought it was a con at first, no bear in the first vid. how surprised was i.
very clever demonstration.

[Blue_SV650S]

"Wow, you have to wonder how many moonwalking bears have crossed your path unnoticed in your lifetime don't you?"

:smt082 :smt082 :smt082 :smt082

[DoubleD]

I saw it the first time watching the video, only because my connection is playing up and the video downloaded slowly.

[svpilot]

That's very good... it's gone all round the office now!

I had to rewind it too, I couldn't believe it.

[Richie]

I still can't see no moonwalking bear...









oh, you have to click the link.
coat & taxi for 1

[ljharmitt]

"Wow, you have to wonder how many moonwalking bears have crossed your path unnoticed in your lifetime don't you?"

:smt082 :smt082 :smt082 :smt082

Not something i think i'll worry too much about lol :rolleyes:

[Warthog]

Only just noticed this

[Ping]

A little something else to do your head in... :lol:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ugriWSmRxcM&NR=1

You have to replay it over and over again... it's really bizarre.

[flymo]

lol, thats bizarre. Anyway, the moral of the story is that if you suddenly find yourself riding into a swarm of basketball players.....watch out dude!

[sinbad]

I guess the lesson is: "Don't distract yourself by counting things". I'm pretty sure I'd spot it first time if I wasn't so focused on counting passes.

Made me laugh, though :) So funny the way he's blatantly in the middle of the screen.

[flymo]

:-) - try the Phantasmatron! http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=NhSsu2Hi6xQ&feature=related

[sinbad]

:-) - try the Phantasmatron! http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=NhSsu2Hi6xQ&feature=related

Haha I just did! Freaky!

[melody]

I had to rewind a few times before I saw that bear.:smt087

[Richie]

:-) - try the Phantasmatron! http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=NhSsu2Hi6xQ&feature=related
tryed that three times...



cack.:smt013 no fire or anything...

[Baph]

I guess the lesson is: "Don't distract yourself by counting things". I'm pretty sure I'd spot it first time if I wasn't so focused on counting passes.


Spot on!

A recent speaker at an IT sercurity conference said "If you obsess about counting things, you miss the obvious." - He actually used that same video as a demonstration of his point, almost everyone in the audience reckon'd there were 14 passes made.

I didn't spot it until the second pass of the video though. :(

[sinbad]

tryed that three times...



cack.:smt013 no fire or anything...

Focus right in the middle and then, when you look away, look at something that isn't a plain surface (like your keyboard for example) and fix your gaze on a single point. It's as if someone is using some digital effect to distort what you see, there's no fire effect really, it's closer to heat haze than anything else really. Very weird though.

[flibble]

Yep, I did! Excellent video, and shows how you can miss an awefull lot of things when out riding - and how people can miss you easily aswell.

Ride safe people, and dont assume anyone knows you are there

Matt

Reckon we'd all have spotted him if he was wearing a fluorescent yellow jacket :rolleyes: