Saturday, February 17, 2007

My new favorite show

Lately, I've been obsessed with How It's Made on The Science Channel, purely for the insane level of detail on the production of the most random selection of products imaginable. The last episode covered the manufacturing of caskets and soda, and so far this episode, it's been knives and mannequins. The creepiest thing I've seen in a while is mannequin parts rolling off an assembly line...arms and torsos springing to human form from dense foam sheets, being cobbled together by Dr. Frankenstein at the end of the conveyor belt and getting painted, made up and wigged to look quasi-alive. Weird. Surprisingly, they cost anywhere from $800 to $2,000. Next up...how socks are made, which of course, is much more complicated than it looks. It involves vacuum tubes. I'm transfixed.

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