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This is a Halloween video trick I did for my Nature of Math class at Biola University, October 28, 2009. It was another experiment in video editing...
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This is a Halloween video trick I did for my Nature of Math class at Biola University, October 28, 2009. It was another experiment in video editing and mixing video with live action.
UPDATE: Version 2 - I fixed the audio so you can hear what I'm saying better.
You can download the full-quality version of this at: http://blog.MatthewWeathers.com/2009_...
UPDATE: NOV 1, 2009
Thanks for all the compliments. I appreciate it. All this attention was quite a surprise - I mainly posted the video for the students who weren't in class that day, and so my students could pass it on to a few friends.
I've read a bunch of comments, and I have a few general responses:
Math: No, I wasn't actually trying to teach anything with the video - it was just for fun. This was the last 5 minutes of a 75 minute class - I actually taught real math for the first 70 minutes. And yes, I love teaching this class, and I try to keep it lively by doing little fun things like this once in a while.
Software/Camera: I used Pinnacle Studio Ultimate, version 12.1 - the "picture-in-picture" feature for the special effects. I filmed it with a simple Panasonic PV-GS35 MiniDV camcorder.
Idea/Time: I did this last semester as an April Fool's joke. New class, new year, I decided to try it again, with a few more twists. It took me about 45 minutes to film the video, maybe 2 hours to edit and refine it, then I practiced the interaction with the video a couple times.
Class: This was filmed with a video camera on a tripod in the back of class, with about 80 people in class that day. Those are real people, not a laugh track. The class is called "Nature of Math," and is a general education class for non-math people. We do some basic math and study the history and philosophy of math. Yes, that's Edwin Abbott's "Flatland" I mention - students have to read it for the class.
Biola (biola.edu) is a private Christian university located in a Los Angeles suburb. I don't place much significance in Halloween, but I don't mind trivializing the day, and making it just about candy and costumes. The disclaimer at the end of version 2 is an imitation of the disclaimer Michael Jackson put at the beginning of his "Thriller" video. (BTW, Biola grad Judith Hill sang the last song at his funeral. Yeah, Biola!)
So thanks again for all your generous comments. I'm glad you enjoyed the video. I hope it inspires you to go out and do creative, fun things of your own.
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I'm so horny....LET'S HAVE FUN!
A pretty female cat gets into trouble. What's gonna happen?
It's a sexy and violent sexploitation clay-animation!
キュー...
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I'm so horny....LET'S HAVE FUN!
A pretty female cat gets into trouble. What's gonna happen?
It's a sexy and violent sexploitation clay-animation!
キュートでやさしいネコ耳娘が巻き込まれるトラブルとは？フェティシズムと暴力が炸裂するセクスプロイテーション・クレイアニメ！
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A video from this year's Magic Weekend, featuring both a proper performance and a blooper of "Jonas-O-Lantern".
Thanks Allan Hagen for fi...
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A video from this year's Magic Weekend, featuring both a proper performance and a blooper of "Jonas-O-Lantern".
Thanks Allan Hagen for filming.
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MP3: http://www.symphonyofscience.com
My own musical tribute to two great men of science. Carl Sagan and his cosmologist companion Stephen Hawking ...
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MP3: http://www.symphonyofscience.com
My own musical tribute to two great men of science. Carl Sagan and his cosmologist companion Stephen Hawking present: A Glorious Dawn - Cosmos remixed. Almost all samples and footage taken from Carl Sagan's Cosmos and Stephen Hawking's Universe series.
RIP Dr. Sagan, you will be missed!!
This song is now out on 7" vinyl through Jack White and friends at Third Man Records! Check it out here:
http://www.thirdmanrecords.com/store....
Please, click HQ to watch in better quality.
Go here for another scientist remix:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGK84P...
And my website for more original music:
http://www.colorpulsemusic.com/
Enjoy!!
-John
boswelj3@gmail.com
Lyrics:
[Sagan]
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch
You must first invent the universe
Space is filled with a network of wormholes
You might emerge somewhere else in space
Some when-else in time
The sky calls to us
If we do not destroy ourselves
We will one day venture to the stars
A still more glorious dawn awaits
Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise
A morning filled with 400 billion suns
The rising of the milky way
The Cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths
Of exquisite interrelationships
Of the awesome machinery of nature
I believe our future depends powerfully
On how well we understand this cosmos
In which we float like a mote of dust
In the morning sky
But the brain does much more than just recollect
It inter-compares, it synthesizes, it analyzes
it generates abstractions
The simplest thought like the concept of the number one
Has an elaborate logical underpinning
The brain has its own language
For testing the structure and consistency of the world
[Hawking]
For thousands of years
People have wondered about the universe
Did it stretch out forever
Or was there a limit
From the big bang to black holes
From dark matter to a possible big crunch
Our image of the universe today
Is full of strange sounding ideas
[Sagan}
How lucky we are to live in this time
The first moment in human history
When we are in fact visiting other worlds
The surface of the earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean
Recently we've waded a little way out
And the water seems inviting
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Watch Cosmos for free on Hulu:
http://www.hulu.com/cosmos
Carl Sagan's Mii Character #(for Wii):
6774-1898-8986
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Just wanna step by letting you know that your amazing with cards.
Keep up the good work.
Btw,, Your video editting skills are also very good haha ;)
Cheers,
Bas
- Matt =)