It's still technically October so here is the conclusion of "Rocktober":
An eternal classic.
Speaking of which... here's one just recently uploaded. [Link Updated] NBC made a copyright claim and that means embedding isn't allowed here and yet it isn't deleted. I don't get it. Anyways, watch it while it's still not deleted. There's a sentence.
Yesterday I reported that I had lost my constant and was probably going to die from the time-shift sickness. (Thanks everyone for the cards and letters.) Fortunately, Questlove is back to the afro, it was just a one show aberration and so I'm fine.
I'm not a big fan of Artie Lange. He seems to have an eating problem/alcohol problem/drug problem that we're all supposed to ignore until he's found dead one day in his bathroom. I also don't listen to Howard Stern and couldn't be payed to. However, be that as it may, I do know that if I'm running a talk show, I'm going to try to get Artie as often as possible as he is talk show dynamite.
His interview to some extent and especially the group dynamic when he stuck around for the second guest, Olivia Munn, reminded me of the old days that I'm too young to remember when Johnny Carson would have Bob Hope, Dean Martin and George Gobel on the same show and it was the comedy gold. Not that Olivia Munn and Artie Lang have the same star power or exchanges that Carson, Hope and Martin had, they don't (let's be clear about that), but it's the same spirit of unscripted hilarious back-and-forth.
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Bonus: Jimmy Fallon, Artie Lange, Olivia Munn and Susan Sarandon play ping pong:
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Tomorrow we'll examine more closely a very important moment in this show. Something will be revealed which will change everyone's life forever.
Monday's episode of Late Night actually gave me a nosebleed because apparently Questlove's afro is gone and I lost my constant. Instead, he's sporting a new dread look:
That episode was also the first chance they've gotten to discuss the upcoming Phillies/Yankees World Series. Jimmy Fallon being a Yankee fan and his house band, The Roots, being Phillies fans.
Jimmy Fallon: The Roots - I don't know if you guys know this - they're from Philadelphia, they love it so much they go home every night to Philadelphia. I mean- and you guys are really Philly fans.
Questlove: Oh yeah.
Jimmy Fallon: So this is gonna be heated.
Questlove: Yeah, we won't be friends after this series.
[Jimmy Laughs]
Jimmy Fallon: Well, we don't know what's gonna happen.
WESTMORELAND. O that we now had here But one ten thousand of those men in England That do no work to-day!
KING. What's he that wishes so? My cousin Westmoreland? No, my fair cousin; If we are mark'd to die, we are enow To do our country loss; and if to live, The fewer men, the greater share of honour. God's will! I pray thee, wish not one man more. By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost; It yearns me not if men my garments wear; Such outward things dwell not in my desires. But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive. No, faith, my coz, wish not a man from England. God's peace! I would not lose so great an honour As one man more methinks would share from me For the best hope I have. O, do not wish one more! Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host, That he which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him depart; his passport shall be made, And crowns for convoy put into his purse; We would not die in that man's company That fears his fellowship to die with us. This day is call'd the feast of Crispian. He that outlives this day, and comes safe home, Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam'd, And rouse him at the name of Crispian. He that shall live this day, and see old age, Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours, And say 'To-morrow is Saint Crispian.' Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars, And say 'These wounds I had on Crispian's day.' Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot, But he'll remember, with advantages, What feats he did that day. Then shall our names, Familiar in his mouth as household words- Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter, Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester- Be in their flowing cups freshly rememb'red. This story shall the good man teach his son; And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered- We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition; And gentlemen in England now-a-bed Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
Last Summer I told you about how Radiohead had created their video for the song "House of Cards" (off of "In Rainbows") in a slightly unusual way. The entire music video was created without using a single frame of film, a single tape, nor a camera, nor a light (in the traditional sense). Instead, the entire video was created with 3D imaging devices. One, for the outdoor shots, works by rotating 64 lasers in a 360 degree radius 900 times per minute. These devices wrote the real-time 3D data to hard drive, the data was then manipulated in various ways and then finally rendered as a digital video for the final product. And there it was - a filmless, cameraless music video.
As a, sort of, "indy", "techie" thing to do, the resulting 3D data was released free to download on the internet at code.google.com/creative/radiohead. People were free to learn more about visualizations, develop there own, etc. Basically the public was given the raw data, to do whatever they wished with it and encouraged to make and share their own videos.
Here's where it gets unusual. I just saw one of the resulting videos today:
In case you missed it, someone has, "frame by frame" (heh), actually modeled the 3D data in lego form. SPROING! WHAT IN THE WORLD?! Absolutely amazing.
Also on the topic of stop motion videos, I found this related video which I really thought was well done.
Not quite the same time sink though, I'd of thought.
