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The Weird World of Slit-Scan Video
07/30/12, 15:59
There were a bunch of variants, the old ones used video feedback but in '73 they did the slit-scan version, which is the one I used to see most often when I watched reruns as a kid, and also corresponds to the Tom Baker period, which was always my favorite.
http://www.h2g2.com/approved_entry/A907544 |
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Racial Slurs Fly High At Jonesboro City Hall
07/30/12, 15:53
The guy from the paper is more upsetting than the fire chief's wife, to be honest. |
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Heavy Metal Britannia (full movie, brief NSFW metal butts and naked satanists)
07/30/12, 15:46
Also, I've been sick and spending a lot of time inside for two weeks now, and it's making me a bit stir crazy. |
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THE HEIGHT OF GOTH: 1984 (2 hours!)
07/30/12, 15:45
I'm only 34, it was never an option for me. |
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Be taking a shower
07/30/12, 15:34
It's no "The Monolith"
http://www.cultdeadcow.com/cDc_files/cDc-0246.txt |
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Heavy Metal Britannia (full movie, brief NSFW metal butts and naked satanists)
07/30/12, 15:32
Listen to Switchblade, Rumble, The Shadow Knows. First recorded use of deliberate distortion (the Kinks cutting holes in their speaker was literally an idea taken from Link Wray - he poked holes in the speaker with a pencil when they recorded Rumble back in '58). First recorded use of power chords. There's some rockabilly influence for sure, but he was way beyond that, especially the stuff that didn't get released.
Pete Townsend is on record saying that he learned to play guitar because of Rumble, as is Neil Young.
In interviews Link Wray has claimed that he was doing heavy guitar stuff at shows as far back as 1949 but there are no recordings, so it can't really be verified.
Blue Cheer were great sometimes (the A side of Inside/Outside and the B side of New! Improved! are both masterpieces of early heavy music, although the flip sides of both of those albums are boring blues jams). I'd put The Monks up there, too. Unbelievably aggressive, riff-driven stuff for 1965, plus Robert Plant's singing style in Zeppelin is almost identical (probably a coincidence, but who knows - at any rate, he certainly wasn't singing like that in '65 and ;66 when The Monks were). Seriously, check out the footage of their one TV appearance that's on Youtube, I think you'll really like it.
It's interesting (although not surprising) that they didn't mention Sam Gopal, which was a sort of hipster band in London in 1968 with Lemmy on guitar, vocals and songwriting. Some of their stuff sounds closer to Motorhead than anything Lemmy did with Hawkwind, although back then he was trying to sing like Jack Bruce. Check out the song The Dark Lord.
Sorry to nerd out about music there, being a music nerd has been my job for going on a decade now. |
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Behind-the-scenes interview with the stars of BATMAN: THE MOVIE (1966)
07/30/12, 11:24
One of the best movies of all time. |
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Heavy Metal Britannia (full movie, brief NSFW metal butts and naked satanists)
07/30/12, 09:55
The Kinks are great and all, but either none of these people have ever heard of Link Wray or they don't want to admit that an American was already playing metal a decade before You Really Got Me was released.
Not to mention Davie Allen and the Arrows. |
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The Weird World of Slit-Scan Video
07/30/12, 09:37
I wonder, if you had a machine capable of processing at 200-300 fps in real time, if you could get results this smooth with live video. |
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The Weird World of Slit-Scan Video
07/30/12, 09:35
Matbe try PD/GEM? It's comparably powerful but since it's a Miller Puckett project it has a graphical "flowchart" type interface familiar from Max/MSP. I've got more experience with CSound than with Max/MSP, so Processing makes more sense to me personally (not that I'm very good at any of it), but they're both fantastic. |
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David Bowie - Love You Til Tuesday (full movie)
07/30/12, 09:32
Bowie's great, but he was also a shameless copycat. It's to his credit that he was able to make other people's sounds so distinctly his own rather than just blindly copying them.
Except some of the Berlin stuff, where Eno literally took tapes he'd made with Harmonia at their studio, and used them as the basic tracks for building some of Bowie's stuff, without any permission or credit. But that's more about Eno than Bowie.
Kind of like how Dylan was uniquely Dylan even though he was copying Ramblin' Jack Elliot's sound and look in every way. |
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Anthony Newley sings Who Can I Turn To on Ed Sullivan
07/30/12, 09:26
After seeing this, I'm pretty sure Steve Martin was into Newley before he made The Jerk. |
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The Weird World of Slit-Scan Video
07/30/12, 00:32
Don't expect it to look this good in real time, though - you need to shoot at pretty high speeds to get it to look like this. |
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David Bowie - Love You Til Tuesday (full movie)
07/30/12, 00:23
I've got the old "Images" double LP from the 70s and it's easily the most consistently good Bowie record.
I wish this film had The Laughing Gnome and Please Mr. Gravedigger in it.
As far as I'm concerned Anthony Newley bowie is the best, Biff Rose bowie (Hunky Dory period) is probably my second favorite, the glam rock/Ziggy Stardust stuff is solid but I've heard it way too oten to enjoy it anymore, and the stuff where he and Eno were shamelessly stealing stuff from Harmonia (the Berlin stuff) is pretty good. After that, I can't really get into it unless it's a 45 playing at 33 or slower, which is hardly worth the effort (although it's worth listening to the Labyrinth theme slowed down at least once in your life). |
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The Weird World of Slit-Scan Video
07/30/12, 00:10
Ok, the sample code that comes with Processing is pretty weak, but a much better one is here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1L3NrdtltUWl9xfP2zv85w_xq_WTyXipOJGpIqMlo06M/edit?pli=1
I jsut tried it and it works really well. If you're running Windows, you'll need to install v1.0.1 (NOT the earlier or later versions!) of WinVDIG from here: http://www.eden.net.nz/7/20071008/ |
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The Weird World of Slit-Scan Video
07/29/12, 23:49
It's how they did the Dr. Who time tunnel, too. |
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The Weird World of Slit-Scan Video
07/29/12, 23:48
It's a post-processing simulation of traditional slit-scan motion photography (i.e. the ending of 2001).
The source material is just standard video, if you follow my link above to the Processing website there's sample code to do it in real time from your webcam, and the Youtube description for this video has an Apple app store link for a basic, offline slit-scan program that costs $2. I think there's an iPhone app, too. Bein able to do this in real time is fantastic. |
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Ron & Marty 'Know and Glow in the Lord.'
07/29/12, 23:42
Pederast and cannibal. |
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Ron & Marty 'Know and Glow in the Lord.'
07/29/12, 23:41
Not only is he a pederast, he's also a horrible ventriloquist and his dummy has down's syndrome. |
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r/atheism
07/29/12, 22:48
Seconded, but that doesn't make this video any better. |
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