Video: Journey Video Parody Final Cut
For those who remember my recent post about my summer working on a web series, here are some end results.
The comedic "Air Band", Sex Hair does a remake of the classic video from the 80s: 'Separate Ways" by Journey. All 88 shots were story boarded to match the original video. This video was shot in the Summer of 2009 on a weekend that went well over 100 degrees. Hats off to Understory Productions of Eugene, OR for the time and effort put into the video.
The first video below is the final video, the second is the rough cut with a comparison of the original Journey video in the bottom right corner. The second video is a rough cut missing a few shots in the last few seconds.
Final:
Rough Cut With Comparison To Real Video
For those interested The series we're working on is a comedy sitcom called Sex Hair. Sex Hair is a band that seems somewhat bent on the 80s. Interestingly, Sex Hair is an Air Band who never seems to get the professionalism of being ‘in the industry’ quite right. Their rival band called the Gloryholes seem to have it more together than they do, being a thorn in their side at every turn.
Season 1 follows the band as they work up to compete in the town's battle of the (air) bands contest. The winning band receives a brand spanking new tour bus to haul around the band's air equipment.
We're back on track and the website will be launching shortly @ http://www.watchsexhair.com and on twitter at @sexhairseries.
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Liz Hickok is a San Francisco-based artist working in photography, video, sculpture, installation, and currently, Jell-O. Hickok received her Masters in Fine Arts from Mills College in Oakland, California. She earned a BFA and BA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University in Boston, Massachusetts. Hickok lived and worked in Boston for over ten years before moving to the Bay Area.
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Jello!Number Stations
For more than 30 years the Shortwave radio spectrum has been used by the worlds intelligence agencies to transmit secret messages. These messages are transmitted by hundreds of “Numbers Stations”.
Shortwave Numbers Stations are a perfect method of anonymous, one way communication. Spies located anywhere in the world can be communicated to by their masters via small, locally available, and unmodified Shortwave receivers. The encryption system used by Numbers Stations, known as a “one time pad” is unbreakable. Combine this with the fact that it is almost impossible to track down the message recipients once they are inserted into the enemy country, it becomes clear just how powerful the Numbers Station system is.
These stations use very rigid schedules, and transmit in many different languages, employing male and female voices repeating strings of numbers or phonetic letters day and night, all year round.
The voices are of varying pitches and intonation; there is even a German station (The Swedish Rhapsody) that transmits a female child's voice!
One might think that these espionage activities should have wound down considerably since the official “end of the cold war”, but nothing could be further from the truth. Numbers Stations (and by inference, spies) are as busy as ever, with many new and bizarre stations appearing since the fall of the Berlin wall.
Why is it that in over 30 years, the phenomenon of Numbers Stations has gone almost totally unreported? What are the agencies behind the Numbers Stations, and why are the eastern European stations still on the air? Why does the Czech republic operate a Numbers Station 24 hours a day? How is it that Numbers Stations are allowed to interfere with essential radio services like air traffic control and shipping without having to answer to anybody? Why does the “Swedish Rhapsody” Numbers Station use a small girls voice?
These are just some of the questions that remain unanswered.
[Here are Some Bits From A Wired Magazine Article]
As shortwave is abandoned by public broadcasters in favor of satellite and the internet, these curious stations continue to broadcast, seemingly unaffected by the end of the Cold War or the development of new technologies. But even listening to the signals is illegal in some countries.
No government has ever acknowledged a numbers station, but the British Department of Trade and Industry told London's Daily Telegraph in 1997 that there was no mystery and that the stations were not "intended for public consumption."
Number station signals are not low-powered, which would suggest in-the-field broadcasts by clandestine operatives. Rather, they come from powerful transmitters with global reach, requiring massive masts that are not easily hidden.
Wired News has a good article on the subject.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,65698,00.html
Salon's Article On Number Stations
http://www.salon.com/people/feature/1999/09/16/numbers/
Wikipedia's Numbers Station Page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station
If you want to hear what one of these things sounds like you can check out this real audio clip. It's a bit eerie.
(Audio Clip of A Numbers Station Broadcast - Real Audio): http://home.freeuk.com/spook007/CYNMARK.ra
More audio clips here: http://home.freeuk.com/spook007/
Number Stations1967 Clip depicts using computers to shop at home… heh..
Here is a clip from the 1967 film 1999 A.D. in which we see the family of the future shopping, paying bills and using electronic mail from home. Apparently women in 1999 still wouldn't be deemed to be up to handling tasks such as banking, bill-paying, and tax preparation, even with the help of electronic devices.
1967 Clip depicts using computers to shop at home… heh..Today is Exploding Whale Day!
It's November 12th again... and out of the time I've lived in lane county I'm still disappointed that no one told me about Exploding whale day...
And I couldnt help but to crack up...
This happened 39 years ago in Florence Oregon... Florence is a small fishing town on the Oregon coast which boasted a population of 2000 at the time.. I think they are up to around 7000 now...
Here's the scoop. As well as a link to the news video that captured it all...
Florence Oregon - Nov. 12th, 1970
A dead whale lands on the beach, and has to be removed by the Oregon Highway Division. The OHD uses Dynamite, hoping to blast the whale into tiny pieces for the seagulls to eat, and to blow the rest into the sea. Using 1 ton of TNT, they blast the whale straight
up and out, and parts of the whale are landing on cars about 1 mile away. Much of the whale remains at the blast site, and has to be bulldozed into the sand.
one local resident recalls the story:
I was there that day, on the dunes, over looking the beach. We were between the whale and parking lot. Parts flew everywhere, with some flying over our heads and as was said, one landed on a car. The owner said "Oh my God, what am I going to tell my insurance man?" He sure had a sick look on his face. It took days to get the smell out of our hair and clothes. Everything was very oily. Days before, someone had taken a chain saw and removed the lower jaw of the whale. The day they blew the whale is one day I'll always remember. I'll not do that again.
Needless to say, Oregon has not blown up a whale since.
Google Video of the original 1970 newscast that captured the explosion:
Here is a newer recap of that day (from 2003) talking to some of the people involved.. this one is significantly more informative but the link above is a must watch and watch it first..
http://www.komotv.com/news/story.asp?ID=28338
Wikipedia has some more information about the story... I'm still laughing.. yes, I live in that county...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploding_whale







