My friend T.Bias, a composer and experimental media artist who also happens to have spectacular hair, says,
I flipped my dreadlocks in front of an exceptional high-speed camera shooting on the low end of its abilities; a mere 6,800fps. k0re happened to be there to record the event in realtime which is great for comparison. I edited it to my song, "Rag Tag Flag", from my Hooks'n'Heels project.Enjoy.
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Following the dreadlock theme, my semi-random Wikipedia discovery of the day: The Polish Plait
Why are some frames desaturated, less color?
Completely mesmerizing. Thank you!
Hey that was way cooler than I thought it would be. At one time everyone I knew had dreadlocks. So I have an aversion to them.
I've never met a person with dreads that didn't have crazt dandruff...never...
Looks way cooler if you drag the slider to watch it backwards.
Add a few people dying, and thirteen times too many overdone explosions, and you have a shampoo commercial produced by Michael Bay.
That is not a hair question.
01/31/07, never forget.
Hey, i don't see a comment area for systems administration stuff, When i click gadgets it takes me to boingboing.net/gadgets instead of gadgets.boingboing.net. Just letting you know. Also this video kicks major A. Very surreal, almost looks like very slow stop motion animation of the hair with a still background!!
@Santa's Knee - they just didn't wash their scalp enough. I've had mine for 5 years I think and you just have to know when to wash them (too much and you can get mold). Flakiness is especially a problem in the first few months to a year as the scalp adjusts.
I used to have spectacular hair. Now at age 27, it's thinning like crazy. :(
kewl video and fun music!
Too bad Davey jones, the electronics guy, didn't have a camera like that to use when he blew up those capacitors a week ago. It would have been lots more fun (though i well enjoyed his enthusiastic delivery).
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/04/videos-of-exploding.html
I remember when dreadlocks were black and rebellion. Ever since, I feel about dreadlocks the same way I do about the blues... and George Carlin said it best: "White people have no right to sing the blues, they cause the blues". And yes, black ppl have co-opted it as a fashion and also helped to mainstream it. Its now acceptable, just like rap, R&B, and rock of every flavor... the only sad point is that the kids haven't come up with their own voices yet to really scare the white dreadlock wearing yuppies yet. But, soon... soon.
The hair reminds me of good 'ole "dreadlock" Barry a busker from New Orleans. Played a mean guitar was a meaner drunk. I will never forget your dreadlocked pate tied inside the lost and found bucket at Check Point Charlies. Magnificent hair, drunk and cursing with head in bucket banging against a 4X4. That'll teach you to throw a hand full of change at a bartender and later pass out head on the bar...bastard.