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[vintagegeekculture]

The Hall of Amazing Men: Branscombe Richmond

A new admission to the Hall of Amazing Men, Branscombe Richmond is best known for being an actor where he played Lorenzo Lamas’s friend, the Lando Calrissian-like sharpie Dallas Sixkiller, or as Moki, the smartmouth Hawaiian friend of Magnum, P.I. But behind the camera, as a tough as nails stunt coordinator and stuntman, Branscombe Richmond created and developed nearly all the eccentric and eye catching events in the TV series American Gladiators: Atlasphere (the one where people roll around in giant balls), Powerball (done simply because they needed a sport that could be created cheaply because they ran out of money for development) and all the various ones where musclemen shoot tennis balls at people, and where you have to avoid muscular women by jumping on a bungee cord. I don’t think it would be inaccurate to say that with his development (on a really thin budget, no less) of memorable, eye catching sports and events that, with his stunt training he knew could be done safely enough so that even kinda-sporty housewives from Illinois could do them without injury, Branscombe Richmond created American Gladiators. He turned an idea into a realized, practical show that can be done – I don’t think it is inaccurate at all to call him the uncredited creator of American Gladiators.

In his career as a stuntman, Branscombe Richmond, meanwhile, is another one of those faces that shows up over and over playing evil henchmen, members of motorcycle gangs in rough biker bars the hero brawls with karate (if there’s ever a rough scummy biker bar out there, you can bet Branscomb Richmond is in it), and hordes of nunchaku wielding ninja, to the point where if you are, like me, an 80s-90s action aficionado, his face makes you go “oh, hey…it’s that guy!” Can you really call yourself an action fan if you don’t start identifying “your” evil henchman? His IMDB page is mostly roles that are named “Gunman In Jeep,” "Biker #2," and "Terrifying Clown."  

If there is a Evil Henchman Hall of Fame, Brandscomb is there alongside the great Al Leung. You can spot his face as a henchman in Never Too Young to Die (with John Stamos), Action Jackson, Batman Returns, the Hidden, Iron Eagle III: Aces High (objectively the best one as it had Ms. Olympia Rachel McLish), and Star Trek III, where he was a Klingon henchman to Christopher Lloyd who almost got disintegrated and had to feed his disgusting slimy monster dog-salamander. It's comforting to know the profession of henching is alive and well 300 years in the future.

On television, Brandscomb Richmond was on every single cool show from the 80s: Tales of the Gold Monkey, TJ Hooker, Manimal, Airwolf, Knight Rider, Baywatch, and many times attempted to kill the A-Team, especially from motorcycles. Like Chiba, another stuntman-actor, Branscombe Richmond specialized in motorcycle stunts, and he was admitted to the Motorcycle Hall of Fame in 2003. He is, to this day, the guest of honor at whatever motorcycle rally your embarrassing hick uncle attends. I have no evidence for this, but I have long suspected that the reason Richmond was hired to be Dallas Sixkiller in Renegade with Lorenzo Lamas was so they could get his unpaid advice on motorcycle stunts (much like how I have always suspected Warner Brothers hired Ben Affleck as Batman as a "backdoor" way to ask him to direct).

He also played the older brother of the Rock in the Scorpion King, which is an interesting choice because despite getting roles as American Indians (and being beloved in the American Indian community, who, as a whole, deeply love characters who are smartmouth, wiseass sharpies/scammers who get one over on everyone), Brandscome Richmond is in fact, like the Rock, of Hawaiian origin. His first major role in television, that of Moki in Magnum PI, was in fact Hawaiian.

Why are there so many Pacific Islanders in stuntman careers, MMA, and professional wrestling? The answer is surprisingly pedestrian. It’s because Pacific Islanders are a sizable ethnic population in Los Angeles, where movies and television are made, so if you need someone in L.A. that are tough as nails and can take a hit, a Samoan or Hawaiian is a good choice.

Happily, Branscombe Richmond is alive and well, mostly retired as a traditionally large Hawaiian family patriarch. He does occasional voice work, as Gibraltar in Apex Legends, a character physically based on him as well. I imagine he is relieved to be working in showbiz and no longer risking brain damage to do it.

[kedreeva]

on the topic of peafowl play, would/do peafowl enjoy those pet puzzle toys? would they have the patience or interest to complete 1 outside of food motivation? i don't know why but i always imagine peafowl as the brilliant but lazy types and i wonder if that headcanon of mine has any plausibility lol

I gave my peafowl one of those chicken treat puzzles (this one) which they are supposed to peck/scratch at and roll around, which drops scratch grain slowly on the ground and gives them something to do until it is empty. It's basically two yellow bowls bungee-corded together by a single cord on the inside, anchored at that little black nub. You fill one half, and then "seal" it as a ball- but it's not clipped together or anything, just bungee tension holds it together.

I set it down for Aris for the first time, and rolled it so she could see it had scratch in it that would fall out. She pecked it once, examined it for roughly 10 seconds, and then grabbed it by the little black nub, and shook the hell out of it, bursting it open and flinging scratch all over the pen. She dropped it and everyone went about their business eating the scratch.

I taught Eris how to press buttons to "speak" to me; she had a few treat buttons, a food button, a water button, and some Word word buttons like "want" and "Eris" and "yes" and "no." She used them to argue with me and make fun of me for forgetting to put water in her wet food one day.

I gave Bug toilet paper rolls with holes cut in them, stuffed with paper towels and superworms. She learned to pull the paper towel out almost immediately. She gets a bowl of fresh foods when she goes into her pen in the mornings, and it started with me walking in and coaxing or carrying her in. Now she goes and waits on the perch where I put the bowl. I give anything leftover she didn't eat to the barn crew, so when I go to collect her in the evening, Polaris and Opal are usually waiting on the table where I put the bowl.

I bring Artemis indoors to do paintings with her, and she knows the order is indoors->bath->dry off->painting+treats, so if I bring her in, and she gets a bath, and I wait too long in the drying off, she will start scolding me until we start painting.

If I let the birds out of their pens, they get free range time while I'm outside. When I call "hup hup!" loudly and repeatedly, they all start walking back to the coops. Many of them know up commands. Artemis and Bug have both learned to put their trains up if I ask (and that's a no-treat trick, they just do it). Beep knew "ask nicely" when she wanted something (which is what led to me training Eris with the buttons), so she would scrape her beak on me if she wanted something. Beep also played with a lot of different toys.

I guess the point is that they are pretty smart birds, given a chance and good circumstances. They can be incredibly stupid, too, but the majority of them are pretty smart most of the time. But they don't have a lot of patience for things that are not either immediately rewarding or that they choose to focus on. Beep once spent an hour trying to get the button off my jeans, but if you offer Bug a mouse and move it away before she can get it, she'll usually just stop caring. If you give a treat to one bird, they might snub it, but they'll kill a man for it if someone else gets it and acts like it's good.

So COULD they become interested in a pet puzzle and possibly solve one? Maybe? It really just depends on what's in it for them, and/or how interested someone else is, and/or if they think it's their idea. They don't really have a lot of grabbing strength in their beaks, so that factors in, too. They do NOT like to peck hard things.

They DO like to destroy stuff though. If you could make an edible tissue box, they would absolutely lose their shit about it. Every peafowl I've ever owned LOVES tearing tissues out of a tissue box and ripping tissues to shreds to try to eat. Don't know what that's about. Leftover raptor instincts to disembowel things, I guess.

[nekochan08]

France sleepwalking head canons

I read somewhere in one of the old comics that he might sleep walk sometimes 🤷🏻‍♀️

-Probably sleep cooks but doesn’t actually cook. Just sets out food on the counter as if he’s going to cook but it’s random ingredients (salt, cheese, oranges, a can opener)

-Sleep showering is probably the most common thing he does right up there with the sleep cooking. Has woken up laying in the shower with the water running.

-Has woken himself up because he kept running into a door. Not the first time that’s happened.

-Dreamt that he had to do laundry and woke up with all his bed sheets balled up in his arms because he stripped his entire bed in his sleep.

-Has been found having a conversation with the microwave about wine at 2am. Then patted the top of the microwave and went back to bed.

-Woken up mid convo while ON THE PHONE with random people. He’s probably slept called England a couple of times. Has dialed the numbers on the microwave as if it’s a phone.

-Has sat up straight in bed and said “Mon Dieu, you scared me!” to absolutely no one in a startled voice, then went back to sleep.

-He’s stayed at Spain’s house one night and stole all of his clothes out of the closet and scattered them throughout his living room.

-Prussia has no time for that so whenever France stays over, he ties him to the bed with bungee cords. This works most of the time.

If he regularly sleeps naked then these would be wild encounters, huh?

[schuylerpeck]

Rope your heartache to the roof of the car and take it to the trees. Use as many shoestrings or bungee cords as needed to tie that sucker down. Allow both of you to be tickled by the wind, the change in heat once lost in shade, the smell of horse hair and wild grass. Build a fire, a home assembled by poles and tarp; a meal that promises to warm you, if a little singed on the sides. Sit in a clover patch by the creek and think of nothing. Sleep. Blow hot life back into tired coals. Delight in the thick silver catch slipping an axe blade into the neck of a few fallen branches. 

The trees are a well-worn graveyard for grief, but leave room when it gifts you back the unexpected. You will forget paper towels and it will inconsiderately omit rain from the forecast, but it matters less when once you notice the owls overhead, holding the night sky like a Magic 8 Ball, coaxing it with questions, and you, in your wool socks, are there to hear it.

[marsmarbles]

hello I'm back with more unconventional ideas about how to use chains because a wrecking ball isn't enough

if chain length can be controlled somehow, would a 3-person slingshot be possible?

Probably not. The chains aren’t like bungee cords so I don’t think it could launch people, but if the chains extended and stretched like that then yeah.

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[aliciacorbettart]

Embracing Failure

Since reflecting on my work using the catapult, I have been exploring and looking into how this work hasn't fully fulfilled it's purpose. For example, when you look at the catapult I made, it looks like a weapon of war, a weapon that can cause destruction. A mechanism that can catapult objects of weight far.

However, after trialing this catapult out, it is clear that it doesn't work to its full potential. It only really catapults light objects at a short distance. This was somewhat successful when I was catapulting plastic balls. Then I tried catapulting a brick, to see what would happen, if the catapult would fulfil it's purpose with a heavier more destructive object. But the brick was so heavy that it outweighed the tension of the bungee cords and the catapult barely moved, the brick just fell to the floor. Through this experiment I was able to see that the catapult did not work as planned and was experiencing some failure in the construction side of this piece.

This helped me to consider how failure is involved in my practice, how it is a key aspect and not everything works out as planned. But how failure should be embraced and recognised as a feature of the practice.

[redemptioninterlude]

one of us is gonna lose //for rue

don't smile at me ( billie eilish ) meme ( accepting ) + @sunxsin // ling

it's a game. a bet. a way to test themselves at a true battle of wills. and like, rue fucking loves it. maybe she's not good at a lot of things, but like, she's never really been someone to simply roll over... well. even that could be iffy. but thankfully for her? the person she happened to be up against with none other than LING YAO, who like, for all intents and purposes? was a safe person to be around for her. meaning there was a shortage of the usual ups, and downs, and all that sideways shit. they're just kids, and they're only 12, and honestly, they're absolute fucking idiots. which is like, kind of the point, isn't it? at 12, rue still feels then like the weekend was a whole year ; like her father was going to live. like everything, honestly, might turn out alright.

" one of us is gonna lose "

"nuh uh." rue's expression crunches, gaze narrowing into slits. knees skinny, knobby, poking out from beneath loose board shorts, belted in fast around her waist with a bungee cord to keep it all together. they're at the skate park, and like, she's trying to do a kick flip, and failing badly, while ling was all too grossly confident that he'd be able to stick a landing, no problem. but the bet's on now, isn't it? and like, she isn't looking to lose anytime soon, despite how her legs look SCRAPED RAW after so many falls, and attempts of picking herself up. ah well. fuck it. we ball.

the next flip is a bust ; the wheels whir, and she's got no game with this, bending over to pick up her board with a scowl, ANNOYED at the way he's grinning and looking like he's about to win. and like, that's not fair, is it? the both of them glancing towards the sky, as if trying to make some kind of snap judgment on if they needed to be home yet or not, rue squinting up at the placement of the sun, as if it meant something worth divining. "ok we got like, another hour." she sounds so confident with that. she just doesn't want to look at her phone to see the truth, really. she isn't ready to go home just yet.

this is the only real escape for her, ling gearing up for his turn as she impulsively makes a choice. she's just trying to throw him off his game, right? and like. a first kiss is something she really just wants to... get it over with. like, lexi's been bothering her lately if she's done it or not, and like, while she doesn't really know why or how, she suddenly is leaning in with a QUICK PECK on ling's lips... eyes widening afterwards, because... why the fuck did you do that, rue bennett? it feels kind of like, disappointing, and shitty, and her hands are all sweaty now, wiping them hastily against her shirt. "for luck!" she's blurting, suddenly, wishing she had said they were out of time, wishing she could just like, run the fuck off and away, and pretend this had never happened in the first place.

[mistressmicheladams]

I made him better: Ass caning and bastinado for the delinquent toy.

you have been a naughty little toy. Late for a date with a Goddess and now you will pay the price for your tardiness. you will pay in pain, the only currency of a Mistress. you will take every stroke of My cane and reflect on your misdeed.

Tied down with leather bungee cords, there will be no escape. Feet fiforced to be flexed and flat to receive My wisdom.

Punished until effectual. I watch you leave, both sore and sorry, with your ass sunken and tiptoeing on the balls of your feet. Humbled. Every step you take you will think of Me.

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[sherloch7]

Insta-Morph is handy.

It’s been awhile since I’ve posted. It was a busy summer. I’m in love with a new material I’ve found. It’s called Insta-Morph and it’s these tiny plastic beads about the size of BB’s. They are white and opaque.

You pour a bunch of them into 150-degree water and they turn clear and begin to melt and coalesce into a mass. You take the mass out of the water and knead it a bit to create a ball of clear stuff. Then you can form it by hand to any shape. Once done you can drill or cut it to further refine the shape. Once it hardens it turns white and is really, really hard and stiff with just a tiny bit of flexibility so that it doesn’t snap into. What’s really interesting about it is that it’s very hydrophobic as no water gets trapped in it when you pull it from the water.

I made two items today as my first experiment with it. The first was a latch to replace some wooden ones that I made last year. The original latches broke from age and after searching for replacements for 6-months, I gave up and made the wood ones. But, they break off now and then and don’t look that good. These new plastic ones are great. I plan to make more once I get some dye for the Insta-Morph so that I don’t have white ones.

The second use was for the area where I keep my latex work gloves. I used to have a bungee-cord holding the box in place but it looked bad and crushed the box as it became empty. Tape looked worse and always came loose. So, I made a tube of Insta-Morph by rolling it out and then smashed it with a smooth piece of wood into a bar. I trimmed the bars with a matte knife and bent them over the end of a counter. Once hardened, I drilled a hole and mounted them. They look nice and work perfectly.

I can’t wait to see what make next. Between this stuff and Sugru (look it up if you don’t know what it is because it’s as magical as Insta-Morph) you can make or fix about anything.

Posted November 7, 2013