So, I'm writing this post with venomous fingers, coiled in attack mode. At home, by myself, I am silent. But behind a keyboard, on the interweb, I'm driving like Britney Spears on her way to a child custody hearing (wait, so that means really slowly, and with dead eyes?). If it was physically possible to strangle eyespot.com, I would. I'm working on some html to make that a reality. I don't care about jail time or what any of you Britney-haters think. Right now all I can do is click-clack on my keyboard.
Look, what I set out to do was make a nice music video. It was going to be beautiful. Lush. Serene. It would have left you breathless. I know this because I'm breathless right now. Eyespot is horrendously slow. It timed out on me three times trying to "mix" my video. Right now, it has no memory of the new audio clip that I uploaded an hour ago (3 times). It is a stubborn son of a bitch.
So, my idea was to take various nature clips (caves in Indiana with various critters and such), "trim" them down into nice little segments, and mix them with an incredible Boards Of Canada song called "Constants Are Changing", thus creating a wonderful music video that would have knocked us all flat on our asses. But it is for naught. Nay, for very naught. What? (not sure)
At this point, I think I am going to include my nature video as is (sans music). Consider it a work in progress. Or a work in regress. My plan B is to embed the video, and right under it, embed an imeem clip of the song. So, you can press play on the video, and then really quickly press play on the song clip. C'mon, it'll be fun, like back in high school when you used to smoke weed with your friend Derek and watch The Wizard of Oz with Dark Side Of The Moon. Remember? No?
Let's give it a try. So, the deal with Boards Of Canada is the following: they are two brothers from Scotland who grew up watching nature films from the National Film Board of Canada (hence...). They started creating ambient, electronic, beat-heavy music that was inspired by the original soundtracks of the NFBOC films they were watching. I decided, since they've only released one official video in over 15 years of releasing music, that I would release the second. It didn't happen, but that was my intent. So, until I get this to work on eyespot, here is my makeshift video. Thanks for the support. Remember => Play simultaneously with the embeded song!
Sorry.
"In The Anna Caves"
Now that wasn't so bad, was it? Was it?!? Oh god...
P.S. If you clicked on the link to the Dayvan Cowboy video, I guess the shots of the skydiver were all actual footage taken of Joseph Kittinger, who jumped from a hot air balloon at 74,600 feet. That is insane. It was all part of a navy project. He lost consciousness halfway down. Apparently, he later said that he started hallucinating and thought he was plummeting into hell. Man...Boards Of Canada are my favorite...ever. And Joseph Kittinger was kind of a bad-ass. Cheers.
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Shame that eyespot was more like eyesuck but I like the concept of the music and video footage being in separate players. This gives the reader the opportunity to sync the music with the footage the way they see fit. Though limited in this particular instance, it would make an interesting concept for future Boards of Canada videos. They could assemble footage for their fans to arrange and sync with the music so the experience is unique to each listener/viewer (Viewistener? Liewstener?).
When you told me to watch it remembering when I would smoke and watch Wizard of Oz with Dark Side of the Moon, I totally did remember that and enjoyed your video. I love that Dayvan Cowboy video, so thanks for the insight about the actual filming of it. My friends and I couldn't figure out if they really had a part of it or not. And I have always wondered why they were a Scottish act called Boards of Canada. If you like them, you should maybe check out M83, if you don't know them already.
I think you managed to create a peaceful, serene, wonderful video, despite eyespot being horrible to you. I've never heard of Boards of Canada, so thanks for that. You video really supports the theme of your blog by relating images to music. You are very insightful and I enjoy your blog. Great job!
Dude, same here...in reference to Daft's Coachella set. We should consider ourselves the lucky ones. Try M83's "Before The Dawn Heals Us" to "Evil Dead 2". It's a trip.
I don't get your comment on my blog. Robert?
That was a beautiful video. I think you accomplished what you set out to so. It definitely is serene and calming. Watching it, I remembered this video I came across a while back. This one is a bit longer (22 minutes) but it has the same purpose your video has. Hope you enjoy!!
Beautiful video, Geoff -- I love the way the cave takes on a kind of world-free-from-gravity feel with the images of insects and bats clinging sideways or upside down to the cave walls; the shot of the moon really complemented that nicely. And you framed the whole thing really well with the gorgeous shots of the mouth of the cave from inside.
Pretty ingenious solution to the video/sound problem, too -- thanks for persevering! I agree with Ryan that it opens up some very interesting possibilities for interactive use.
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