Diamonds in youtube's rough

[ingmarnicebbmt]

This is fun:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7eTlU8aH_w

[foreverinawe]

This is fun:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7eTlU8aH_w

So's this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t32KOuJ0c0

It was #1 on the U.S. charts for five weeks in 1942. Really!

  ~~~fia

[foreverinawe]

2001: A Space Odyssey



Seven years ago, a young filmmaker named Tyler Knudsen undertook an in-depth analysis of Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece,  2001: A Space Odyssey. Posting to youtube, he produced seven videos, each devoted to some aspect of the story, often mingling technical descriptions with the mindsets of the storytellers, Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke.  It took him 3 years to complete his seven videos. 

If you have always wondered about the story’s ending, I recommend the seventh video, “Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite”. It’s over :30 minutes long, but if you start at about :16 minutes you’ll be at the meat of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-WBxfwspTc&list=PLGciYgiR4atGcBOIuOmLQBXUj692TV6R0&index=11

   ~~~fia

[fritzkep]

Just watched it, thank you for it!

I first saw the movie at the Uptown Theater in DC just a few days after it premiered, and I parked my sister's car on Ordway Street NW around the corner. I paid enough attention to the closing credits that I found it a happy coincidence that the name was shared by one of the special effects magicians!

I was so impressed by the movie that I brought my sister and b-i-l to see it toward the end of the visit, and then when I got back to school I talked it up with many of my teachers so that I saw them in the audience when it showed at a downtown theater in South Bend.

I've lost track as to how many times I've seen it.

[CellarDweller115]

Very interesting video, thanks for that!

I liked the discussion of the filming of the star child, and how they worked the lighting of it.   I must say, when you see the star child originally in the video, it looks rather creepy.  However, with the lighting effects, it's rather peaceful appearing.

[foreverinawe]

Here’s one more explanation of the 2001 ending. And it’s wonderful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KLujOXs8wg

   ~~~fia

[michaelflanagansf]

György Ligeti - Poème Symphonique For 100 Metronomes (I've seen this performed live in Berkeley)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mUv705xj3U

[michaelflanagansf]

At the same performance where I saw the Ligeti piece I saw this as well:

Pendulum Music Steve Reich

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU6qDeJPT-w

[michaelflanagansf]

Wayne County (later Jayne County) in Derek Jarman's "Jubilee" (I'm guessing this is taped from an Italian copy)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyNVLhb2VwE

[michaelflanagansf]

Amanda Lear from the Italian TV show "Stryx":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhbFruikAQk

Amanda and Grace Jones from "Stryx":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcfMoxS3iEc

And more about the TV show:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/stryx-italian-tv-show

[CellarDweller115]

At the same performance where I saw the Ligeti piece I saw this as well:

Pendulum Music Steve Reich

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU6qDeJPT-w

I would never have thought to use feedback that way.   Normally you hear such a high-pitched squeal that's unpleasant. 

This actually had an odd effect on me, giving me a sense of nostalgia.  The sounds reminded me of what you would hear an unoiled swing set produce, and it took me back to visits to the park as a kid.

[michaelflanagansf]

The high pitched squeal is what I thought of right away Chuck and I wondered if Reich wasn't inspired by something like that happening at one of his concerts.

[CellarDweller115]

Amanda and Grace Jones from "Stryx":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcfMoxS3iEc

I often wonder why Grace didn't have a bigger mainstream success here in the states.  I can easily see this played on the radio during the disco era.

However, I'm sure Grace never worried about mainstream success.

[michaelflanagansf]

I think that the problem that Grace faced was that she started working at the end of the disco era, right when the backlash against disco was happening. She also could easily be seen as being threatening to male egos with her very aggressive sort of look (it eventually got her a role in Conan, however). She probably faced problems in America because she had a big gay following and was associated with gay people (not really popular in the late 70s/early 80s - it's important to remember that Bowie really became popular in America after "Let's Dance" came out and he said in "Rolling Stone" that saying he was bisexual was the biggest mistake in his life). Grace was very popular with a subset of the population and was in heavy rotation in gay clubs in the late 70s.

[michaelflanagansf]

AbFab affirmations:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnbEd1gAFgg