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It may not be the first go-round for the Karmetik Machine Orchestra, but the automated musicians, fashioned by a group of students at the California Institute of the Arts, took the stage last night to prove that robots can rock. Among the mechanized musicians scheduled to perform at the Walt Disney Modular Theater were MahaDevibot, Glockenbot, BreakBot, and NotomotoN, described as a “duel-head drum with twelve beaters and a mallet orchestra.” Each of the robots was built from salvaged parts and programmed by CalArts students, who control the machines from laptops during performances. A description of the show posted to the CalArts website touts music-producing robots suspended from the ceiling that trigger sound activated light shows and animation — now that sounds like a way to spend a Thursday night. Check out a video of the players and their masters after the break.

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Off the top of your head you may be able to quote a number of Disney films, and for many of them you would even be able to quotes lines from different characters. Would is be unexpected to you to consider that lots of those Disney quotes are as applicable today, as they were when they were spoken?

Think about the Walt Disney quotes like; “How could I be so stupid?” This could easily ruin the business!” taken from Monsters Corporation. aren’t an excellent illustration of Disney quotes we ought to consider, being the state of the economy throughout the first part of the twenty-first century. However “Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming” might be more appropriate. What do we still do? We swim, and swim, and swim, are you my conscience?” from Finding Nemo, seems to match perfectly with the times.

Walt Disney was a man way ahead of most contemporaries, with his futuristic ideas, and his clear understanding of people, evident in the theme parks he made. A great number of Walt Disney quotes highlight the insight of the man.
Although he is not responsible for writing the great classics that come out of the Disney studios, anyone that has had the time to read various original versions, will agree that they have all been altered substantially. A lot of the classic lines not present in the original stories. It is very clear that a lot of the great Disney quotes would never have been there if he had not approved of what they stood for.

If you are lucky enough to be old enough to remember when Walt Disney would present the stories of his weekly shows, and then talk at the end of the show as well, you will also know that there have been numerous Disney quotes which are less known, and seem to have been buried in time. Just because these less memorable Disney quotes are not in the pictures, they have just as much importance.

In the future then, whenever you find yourself in hysterics watching Donald Duck’s latest slip ups, or you are listening intently to the words Merlin spoke in “The Sword and The Stone”, have a closer listen to the great Disney quotes and see how closely they may apply to your own life.

So, if I may quote a wise man by stating “When you go after honey with a balloon, a great thing is not to let the bees know you are coming.”

If you have noticed that the world doesn’t owe you a living, and want one of these brilliant Disney quotes that will serve you well in the foreseeable future, then look no further than ‘First rule of leadership: everything is your fault.’ A lot of firms in the 2000′s seemed to ignore that certain; it might be nice to think that Walt Disney understood what was going to be coming, and that somehow filtered down through the ages to the writers of ‘Finding Nemo’.
Oh, why the Winnie the Pooh quote? Because too often in our life, we let the bees know we’re coming.