Monday Moving Walkway Blogging

I'm somehow always forgetting to check and see if my favorite artists are making music videos and then wind up stumbling across things randomly after they've been out for months. Here's Feist, "My Moon, My Man":

Ever since I read The Caves of Steel when I was a kid, I'm always feeling that the world needs more moving walkways -- moving walkways with multiple lanes and higher and higher speeds. It could be awesome (and, yes, many practical problems, blah, blah, blah).

Comments

Somehow, I think Kevin Garnett getting dealt to Boston might be a higher priority blogging item than this...

Posted by Petey | July 30, 2007 9:08 AM

I'm still waiting for mass transit via pneumatic tube.

Posted by jhupp | July 30, 2007 9:31 AM

When I caught this video on New York Noise last month, I thought that though it was interesting, it was largely a rip-off of that OK Go video with the treadmills.

Posted by jlw | July 30, 2007 9:35 AM

Ever since I read The Caves of Steel when I was a kid,

Please don't tell you had the hots for Gladia also.

Posted by Dan the Man | July 30, 2007 9:56 AM

Surely at some point you must have also stumbled across The Roads Must Roll by Robert Heinlein - really fast sidewalks and union bashing in one handy package.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Roads_Must_Roll

Posted by argon | July 30, 2007 10:34 AM

Since argon arrived before I did, I will fall back onto Monty Python.

MR. WIGGIN: Good morning, gentlemen. Uh, this is a twelve-storey block combining classical neo-Georgian features with all the advantages of modern design. Uhh, the tenants arrive in the entrance hall here, are carried along the corridor on a conveyor belt in extreme comfort and past murals depicting Mediterranean scenes, towards the rotating knives. The last twenty feet of the corridor are heavily soundproofed. The blood pours down these chutes and the mangled flesh slurps into these large contai--

Posted by jerry | July 30, 2007 2:03 PM

That's a terrific video, thanks for posting it! Yeah, it's similar to the OK Go video, but is that so awful?

Posted by Uncle Vinny | July 30, 2007 2:56 PM