Sep 29, 2010 6:18 AM

Take on the Machine, episode one

*Man, what the heck kind of hybrid metamedia chimera is this thing? It combines automobile ad sponsorship, vernacular video, web virality, gizmos, the Surrealist objet trouve', and hackerspaces.

*As infotainment.

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