Pigeon: Impossible

Posted by John Farrier in Funny, Video Clips on November 16, 2009 at 9:16 am


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Walter Beckett, a junior CIA agent, receives a briefcase that controls a nuclear missile. The hand-off goes smoothly, until a pigeon gets trapped inside. Pigeon: Impossible is a six-minute short film by Lucas Martell. It is his first animated film, and it took him almost five years to complete it.

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Prisoners Smuggle In Stuff with a Toy Chopper

Posted by Alex in Crime & Law, Gadget, Toy & Video Games on May 26, 2009 at 12:21 pm

Remember the story of how prisoners in Brazil have been smuggling in cell phones using pigeons?

Well, that’s low tech compared to what these other prisoners did:

Four suspects were arrested late on Sunday outside a maximum security facility in the southern town of Presidente Venceslau in Brazil’s Sao Paulo state after the mini-chopper, 14 mobile telephones and the equivalent of 500 dollars in cash were found in their rented car, according to reports in local media.

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Note that this is also in Brazil: what’s up with that? Can’t they smuggle things the good ol’ fashioned way – in their butts – just like all other prisoners do in the rest of the world?

 
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Pigeon Feather Art by Kate MccGwire

Posted by Queuebot in Animal, Arts & Crafts, Pictures on May 2, 2009 at 1:22 pm


Sluice (2009) by Kate MccGwire

Bits of bones and pigeon feathers may be garbage to you and me, but not to artist Kate MccGwire. The London-based artist used thousands of discarded pigeon feathers to create amazing works of art.

In this interview with Kate, Don’t Panic Magazine asks: why pigeon feathers?

I am currently using pigeon feathers as they come from a bird that is generally reviled – regarded as vermin and referred to as ‘rats with wings’. I started to collect pigeon feathers that moulted from the birds in a shed next to my studio – I realised that they were actually very beautiful.

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Disappointment

Posted by Queuebot in Animal on April 25, 2009 at 1:08 pm


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The video is not of the best quality, but the cat’s reaction when the pigeon he was stalking flew away is absolutely priceless!

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Prisoners Smuggle In Cell Phones With ... Pigeons!

Posted by Alex in Animal, Crime & Law on April 5, 2009 at 12:23 am

Prison inmates are an innovative bunch (case in point: pruno), so it should be of no big surprise that they’ve found ways to smuggle contrabands into prison. But this method is surely unique: inmates at a prison farm in Brazil have been using pigeons to smuggle in cell phones!

Guards at the Danilio Pinheiro prison near the southeastern city of Sorocaba noticed a pigeon resting on an electric wire with a small cloth bag tied to one of its legs last week. "The guards nabbed the bird after luring it down with some food and discovered components of a small cell phone inside the bag," police investigator Celso Soramiglio said Tuesday.

One day later, another pigeon was spotted dragging a similar bag inside the prison’s exercise yard. Inside the bag was the cell phone’s charger, Soramiglio said.

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Turtle One, Pigeon Zero

Posted by Queuebot in Animal on April 1, 2009 at 10:24 am


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It looks like another day in the park until … snap, the turtle has the pigeon, drags it underwater, and a few token feathers float back to the surface. Turtles might looks slow, but beware.

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