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And now we're gonna bust with the Putney Swope sequel
More Adidas sneakers that a plumber got pliers
Got more suits that Jacoby & Meyers

Oh yes, video editors love using Macs.

In soviet russia jokes suck at you!

If the jokes are naked, I'm moving to soviet russia!

Is that the from the "sequel"? I have seen Summoner Geeks, but I understand there's a second clip. Anyone have a link?

"Are there any girls there?"

In case you're fuzzy on U.S. copyright law, all created works automatically receive copyright, regardless of whether the work is officially registered with the U.S. copyright office. Many artists choose to give away their work.

Taking at face value the statements the MPAA is "educating" public schoool students with, downloading anything from ifilm.com would be illegal. ifilm.com, which is ranked by alexa.com in the top 2000 websites (out of more than 5 million ranked), distributes videos (such as movie shorts) that their creators have given permission to be distributed for free.

Surely the MPAA is not promulgating the outrageous statements portrayed in the Globe article? Well, an Oct. 17, 2003 press release by Junior Achievement, the organization entrusted by the MPAA to carry out its propaganda in the public schools, links to the MPAA's respectcopyrights.org site, which contains a page which states:

At the end of the day, when you get right down to it, downloading copyrighted movies off the Internet is illegal. It's against the law.

A more correct statement would have been "downloading copyrighted movies off the Internet against the wishes of the copyright holder is illegal."

A minor difference? Hardly. The MPAA is inculcating the concept in students that movies and videos should exist only in a commercial context. Instead, with the advent of cheap video technology, students should be encouraged to make their own amateur videos and share them over the Internet. Script writing, staging, lighting -- that would be real education.

Public schools are a place where students learn to consume rather than create.

If any of you are scratching your heads, trying to figure out where this text is from, it's from Summoner Geeks.
Figured I'd could save someone the trouble I just went through trying to figure it out...

The sketch in question was originally done by a comedy group called the Dead Alewives, an improv troup based out of Milwaukee whose webpage now seems to be defunct. The Summoner Geeks clip as linked above was actually a hidden feature in the computer/PS2 game Summoner, which could be accessed by pressing ESC (X) during the credits. The original Dead Alewives version had a very amusing intro, which was cut in the Summoner Geeks flick.

The audio is, however, preserved in its entirety in a flash animation called 8bitDandD.

That's actually a reinterpretation of the Dead Alewives' D&D parody, which was audio-only. Here is another one which I think people might be more familiar with.

Rob

If any of you are scratching your heads, trying to figure out where this text is from, it's from Summoner Geeks.
Figured I'd could save someone the trouble I just went through trying to figure it out...

In the event of a paper jam, the printer signals the repair shop, who dispaches a specially-trained technician to clear the jam... so you don have to!

...inispired this?

If you have never heard of Aphex Twin I truly pity you. His music consists of some of the most brilliant works in all of the electronic genre. I suggest checking out the video to Windowlicker as done by Chris Cunningham, it is a masterwork in every sense.

Cool, I found a link to it once again. Check it out here if you haven't seen it before.

Streaming

MPEG

Well... At least the trailer is done for it already.

T

This is the Link

God, that was a funny film.

http://www.ifilm.com/filmdetail?ifilmid=115368
the main site: http://www.geocities.com/cobweb_films/

It's a bit lengthy but the humor is precious.

"Do you know who this is, Neo?"
"Mom?"
"Guess again Neo."
"... Mom?"

"Can you drive that thing?"
"Not yet... Operator! I need a program for an '82 Subaru Swift!"

For those of you who don't know, Fountainhead is the company of John Carmack's wife. As mentioned a long way down in his .plan file. So there's even more geek news for you.

Although it doesn't quite count as machinima, I always found Summoner Geeks (warning: annoying flash ads) pretty funny.

Actually, that was a promo for Summoner and Red Faction... It was called Summoner Geeks... funny. :)
You can find it: hereand probably many other better places than iFilm too.

There was also a followup which I got on a coverdisc once which was also piss funny...

For those who can't get to it... try this alternate location.

SUmmoner Geeks, a bold look at the darker side of geekdom.

P.S.- you know that was you.

Wasaaaaaaaaaabi! Wasabi!

Still available here :)

AtomFilms
IFilm

Where's the free music (not "pirated", but legitimate)?

MP3.com
iRATE
FreeMusic
EMusic (okay, not free, but flat-rate and dirt cheap)

Where's the *value*?

That's up to you to decide, of course. But there's plenty of legitimate big content out there.

• Atom Films
• IFilm
• TheForce.net fanfilms
• Filmwatcher

• Recommendations:
• More (Brilliant)
• Fan made Star Trek epsiode (Hilarious!)

True, seems like there would be more stuff out there, but there are some great ones like these to keep your eyes open for.

This is a good complement to the previous spoof of LOTR done in the MTV movie awards last year, that even was included in the Fellowship of the Ring DVD. I suppose that this one will be included in the DVD of the The Two Towers.

What angers me is that everybody assumes that these people do not actually Worship jedi!

Articles and films already exist regarding this spiritual movement.

Plus, we already admit that other such religions exist:

- Star Trek - Leonard Nimoy Should Eat More Salsa Foundation

- Hicks - Love thy Mullet

- Plastic surgery - Cosmetics for the holy

Anyway...

Davak

One of the really nice features with Opera is you can set a preference so that it identifies itself as IE of Mozilla. This makes browsing the web very easy as you get no errors being thrown about not having a supported browser. This does lead to inaccurate statistics from web servers. Whatever about not getting errors, I cannot set my default browser to Opera yet as there are still some sites which dont work in it e.g. www.ifilm.com. If administrators never see Opera showing up on their logs they are not going to design for it either.

Heh. Or maybe like a scene from a spoof of a Keanu Reeves movie...

Good stuff! alt.seduction.fast!

Of course, when you talk about role playing games, and then segue into wanning to "do girls",

only one thing comes to mind... SUMMONER GEEKS!

But, the sad fact of the matter is that the "world has changed" since I was a young idealistic college freshman, and mircosoft, rightly or wrongly, has taken a position that differs from my "ideals" -- I'm the type that likes to tinker under the hood of the program, and I don't see Microsoft making all that easy to "tinker" when "the house of the future" does come around.

Starman9x

p.s. (of a sort) there are several mentions of "Disney" in the article, as in the dark-ride/automated event type rides, but she missed the most obvious "Disney" parallel -- The Smart House"

oh and here is the Terry Tate Office linebacker ad. Good stuff!

I am out travelling. While I could not care less about the game, I do appreciate the commercials. I found them all online

Tor

reviews more reviews, and even more reviews.

Don't forget the movie reviews.

Looks like a real person who happens to write a lot of reviews. Some people review books, others post to slashdot...

I would also rate very highly your role in the filmed-for-TV play of The Andersonville Trial with Jack Cassidy. Those were stepping out roles for both of you. I wish there had been more...

Well, let me see. In the ol'(which maybe was not so good) time, instruments where done by people who where master of their art, which in turn took years to produce.
They were respected for their unique knowledge, and made apprentice of young people that wanted to learn it. Of course, since making a "proper" instrument was a revered art, it took time as well.

But as time passed, this apprenticeship business losed its appeal for the young generations.
Why ? Because after all it was hard, masters tended to be harsh, brutal and extremely demanding. And they wanted their "secrets" to be closely kept too.
This was eventually replaced by mass industrialisation: producing always cheaper goods with far less dedication and quality, but for everybody to access.

The difference here is clear: current instrument maker simply do not have the same goal and values as past ones.

Is it good, or is it bad ? Who knows, and I'm not the one to start the debate.

But even if they manage to find why a stradivarius is a stradivarius, will they simply be willing to reproduce it truly, and not a scaled-down version of "process" ? I doubt it. Because it might take something that is not only technical. Or maybe those instruments are going to be an elite-thing again.

And in my opinion, there we lose the interest.

No way! You saw Computer Boy too?

Give this a shot.

They already did make a second video, sadly there were no lego animation. :*(

This guy better hope The White Stripes are making a second video.

That Flash movie can also be found at IFILM

If anyone's played Summoner for the PS2, you may have caught the video they added in, with characters from Summoner and Red Faction as the players. (:

You can view it on ifilm.

I like IFilm for indie films. Most of the clips are short and have good plots. Others are so long it ceaces to be funny.
Check out "Computer Boy", "The Killer Bean", and "405 The Movie". There are a ton of others that are cool to watch.
The only down side is the WMA/Real format of the films. And the commercials you have to watch between films.

However, I'm an audio professional, and will happily and uniformly disparage all of these 'tools' for neglecting to have any real ability to edit audio. As just about anyone in the industry will tell you, audio is the bastard stepchild of video/film, with less than a tenth of any movie's budget spent on sound... and yet all of those same people will agree that sound is just as important as visuals, if not more - consider the Blair Witch Project, with cheap, shoddy visuals, but eerie and compelling audio to create the mood... Now imagine a rock-steady camera in a high-budget film, with sound that sounds like cheap vinyl... or even AM radio... It's just not acceptable, and nothing will alienate your audience sooner.

As an example of the downplay of audio, Digital Video Magazine has an ad in the last issue offering a turnkey video editing system... Dual 1 GHz G4, Final Cut Pro2, 80 GB Firewire drive, Superdrive, Firewire Media Converter, Sony's $5000 prosumer digital camera, 23-inch Apple LCD cinema screen, Sony 19" NTSC reference monitor (>$1000!), and... Harmon Kardon SoundSticks!

$20,000 USD for this system, and you're getting a $150 pair of speakers... which, frankly, suck (I just wrote an article to be published in December about those speakers, after running them through tests of frequency response, distortion, noise level, etc., and you'd do better with a $150 pair of headphones... but they aren't as pretty).

Additionally, none of these programs have the ability to scrub audio, a MUST as any real audio editor will tell you, very few of them will let you edit on a resolution smaller than a frame (30 fps means that 1 frame = 33 ms... However, a 5 ms delay is audible as phasing, and as low as a 25 ms delay can be audible as a distinct echo), most of them have linear VU meters (rather than logarhythmic, like our hearing... consider, with 0 dB FS as the top of the scale, -3 dB FS is half the power, and on a linear meter, half the distance down... However, -3 dB is a difference in level that is really only noticed by trained ears... Additionally, the SMPTE standard for digital audio is to have normal level (0 VU) at -18 dB FS... Or almost off the scale on any program with linear meters... That's freakin' insane. As a comparison, try using Photoshop with the brightness on your monitor turned down to almost 0. You're trying to work reasonably at the threshhold of noise of the system you're working on.

Also, the EQs in most of these programs have their frequency range set linearly, too... Human hearing goes from roughly 20 Hz to 20 kHz (roughly - young women and children can frequently hear higher frequencies, usually topping out by 23-26 kHz), but our interpretation of frequency is logarythmic: the top octave goes from 10 kHz to 20 kHz (or, the top HALF of a linear scale). The next octave (or, the next lowest quarter on a linear scale) is from 5 kHz to 10 kHz...
You don't start getting into useful ranges until you're in the bottom 32nd of the scale, from 500 Hz to 1 kHz - the fundamental of the human voice goes from about 125 Hz to about 500 Hz, most of the vowels and formants are from about 500 Hz to about 1.5 kHz, and the consonants are from about 1.5 kHz up to about 4 kHz (for the sibilants). There's very little energy in the human voice above 5 kHz... So have fun setting your EQs properly when you're looking at a linear scale that emphasizes the top two octaves... ABOVE what you're dealing with.

Then again, the two major audio editing software programs on the market, ProTools and CoolEditPro also miss some of these, so I guess I shouldn't complain too much. When you deal with sub-standard tools everywhere, you have to give up some expectations

By comparison, look at the Orban Audicy (used in most radio stations for production), and the Fairlight Merlin and D.R.E.A.M. Stations, used for most film/television production.

Sorry. :)

-T

Michelle Meyrink, who turned in a half-dozen first-rate movie performances -- including the hyperactive Jordon in Real Genius and then disappeared from view.

Surely computer graphics these days are advanced enough to eradicate the need for real filming? Maybe this is all just a giant publicity stunt?

Assuming they could get a permit for a 600' overflight, they could digitally remove unwanted vehicles and pedestrians. Remember "405", that homemade flick with a plane landing on a deserted highway ? Those film-makers could hardly close the highway for filming: they digitally removed the other cars.

This link works better... Computer Boy

Realplayer is avaliable for Linux. Get it here.

And here are the direct links to the Real Player movies, since Mozilla just tells me to download the plugin and so I have to search through the source:

Trailer

First 8 Minutes

Realplayer is avaliable for Linux. Get it here.

And here are the direct links to the Real Player movies, since Mozilla just tells me to download the plugin and so I have to search through the source:

Trailer

First 8 Minutes

Either way, not good.

Either way, not good.