ever since i saw the amazing cascade of plastic chairs video at SIGGRAPH 2004, I have been addicted to doug l. james’ work on collisions between deformable models – another way of saying floppy things running into each other. although he may have legitimate research in mind, there’s nothing but pure emotional attachment to plastic in these videos: a pile of 12,201 white plastic chairs dropped from the sky, or in this case the ubiquitous laundry baskets.