To play in high quality:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urXlE6YycRM&fmt=18
I realized after I finished that I allowed non-sequential numbers to be visible; it would be better to redo that. It ended up being long because I decided to start the sequence at the beginning, rather than where you left off, and see how far I could take it with my bookshelves. Also, sadly, this is not as clear after upload; need hi-def for this. Thanks to:
Music: Balafonic by The Hexyl Circle, CCMixter
http://ccmixter.org/files/iandsmith/1140
"This is a ten note balafon from Ghana made from gourds and shea butter tree wood. Its my original lick, recorded in one take with the mike an inch from the top of the notes. BPM is variable, and the gaffes arent intentional. The main thing is - keep going." [Actually, I like the "gaffes"...they add character that fits with the flaws in the video.]
Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture (2008), inside cover [empty-0], "We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand."
The Family of Man, The Photographic Exhibition Created by Edward Steichen for the Museum of Modern Art (1955), "We shall be one [1] person" --(unidentified) Pueblo Indian
Shant Kenderian, 1001 Nights in Iraq: The Shocking Story of an American Forced to Fight for Saddam Against the Country He Loves" (2007), "Part One [1]" begins the journey
James E. Zull, The Art of Changing the Brain (2002), Chapter [2], "Where We Ought to Be: The Natural Relationship Between Brain Structure and Learning"; "'tis a gift to come down where we ought to be" --Amish hymn; "It was so pretty, it had to be true." --James Watson on discovering the double helix
James W. Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (1995), Chapter [3], "The Truth About the First Thanksgiving"
James Segrest and Mark Hoffman, "Moanin' At Midnight: The Life and Times of Howlin' Wolf" (2004), pg [5] on how Wolf got his nickname as a little boy
Tony Perrottet, Napoleon's Privates: 2,500 Years of History Unzipped (2008), pg [8]: "Why Castrati Made Better Lovers (AD 1720)" cf. the film about the last Italian castrati, Farinelli
Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception (1954); pg [13] on "island universes...The mind is its own place, and the places inhabited by the insane and the exceptionally gifted are so different from the places where ordinary men and women live, that there is little or no common ground of memory to serve as a basis for understanding or fellow feeling"; yes this is the accounting of Huxley's LSD experimentation, and yes this book is the reason that Ray Manzarek and Jim Morrison named their band The Doors
Ogden Nash, ed, The Moon Is Shining Bright As Day (1953), pg [21], "This is the Key," microscopic/macroscopic wisdom in a children's poetry book
Fritjof Capra, The Tao of Physics (1975), pg [34] on two kinds of knowledge/two modes of consciousness
Daniel Goleman, Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships (2006), pg [55], on the instinct for altruism
The New York Public Library Desk Reference (1989), pg [89], a listing of the brightest stars
Sari Harrar and Sara Altshul O'Donnell, Healing Herbs: Secrets From 90 Top Herbal Healers (1999), pg [144], "What To Do When You've Overdone It"
Rupert Sheldrake, Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home and Other Unexplained Powers of Animals (1999), empirical research into the ultrasensory abilities of animals; pg [233], this passage is on dogs who can foretell and signal impending seizures
Clement Wood, ed., The Complete Rhyming Dictionary: The Essential Hand Book for Poets and Song Writers (1936), pg [377], "eugenesic, geodesic" Tynan, I want that in a poem
Henley's Twentieth Century Book of Formulas, Processes and Trade Secrets (the "new 1937 revised and enlarged edition"), pg [610], on pyrotechnics!
The Bedford Anthology of World Literature: The Twentieth Century, 1900-The Present (2003), Takenishi Hiroko's short story, "The Rite" "published in 1963, eighteen years after the bombing of Hiroshima," pg [987] on whether we are closer to a person in consciousness than in presence
Webster's New World Dictionary (of the American Language (1962), pg [1597], "unspeak," a fabulous word that we should all learn, so that we can know it is possible to take back words that we regret; if there is a word for it, it must be so
I thought the set of encyclopedias was going to be the ticket for [2584], but then realized they are paginated individually instead of continuously
[4181]: I'm thinking virtual pages in Wikipedia or something...except then, of course, the concept of "page" entirely breaks down
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Thanks Jen, this is so cool! I love the using of books as a theme. Eventually you might need to really fat books.
Also, I am a major Randy Pausch fan...
cogdog 3 years ago
Thanks. Am a little frustrated that I can't make it high quality (couldn't find the option when I uploaded), but maybe the iMovie format isn't a good enough source?
lyricessence 3 years ago
Actually, a temporary fix is to click on the high quality link in the description box. But, will resave and resubmit for better clarity.
lyricessence 3 years ago