"Sonny wanders beyond his interior walls / runs his hands through his thinning brown hair"

[larryhammer]

Sonny's yearbook from high school is down from the shelf / and he idly thumbs through the pages / some have died, some have fled from themselves / or struggled from here to get there

• The post title says it all: Lady Murasaki Bot Recites Tale of Genji. Especially weird to come across while reading Shonagon's Pillow Book.
  
• This collection of early movie reviews from the 1890s is fascinating. Not only were movie-makers struggling to come up with a visual language for the new medium, so were critics struggling for ways to talk about it.
  
• Sometimes, a fake film of Edgar Allen Poe reading "The Raven" is close enough to the real thing to be worth watching. (via)
  
• While "Lulz and the /b/tards" might sound like a good band name, it'd certainly put me off. (via)
  
• Here's a wonderful (and yet simple) visualization of Bach's famous Toccata and Fugue in D minor, which is especially useful for tracking all the fugual voices. (via)
  
• "Who needs girls gone wild, when you can have girls gone Wilde?" (via)
  
• Lightning looks way cool filmed at 5000 frames a second. (via) (ETA: replacement link via coyoty)
  
• Sometimes, you just want to smash a cream egg in the best way possible. (via)

Well I'm accustomed to a smoother ride / maybe I'm a dog that's lost his bite / I don't expect to be treated like a fool no more / I don't expect to sleep the night

---L.

Comments

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

I used to draw pictures of Bach's Toccata & Fugue in D minor, in pen and ink, back around 1980. Just little bits of it, but the player piano roll aspect of it was rather similar.

[pdlloyd.livejournal.com]

Lots of very cool linkage. Thanks, Larry.

I love the idea of the Bot recitation, complete with appropriate gestures. I can't wait until that's the standard for audio. *g*

The music visualization was very cool. I felt like I learned something about how the music was put together that I wouldn't have in another context. It also reminded me of the video game Ian and Keith have that displays a form of musical notation that you can either play or sing to, complete with feedback on your performance.

The lightening was gone *sob*. That was somethign I really wanted to see.

I cannot believe the amount of effort that must have gone into the smashing of the cream egg. Just incredible.

[larryhammer]

Arg - hadn't noticed about the lightning video. It was working a few days ago still, but I didn't check as I was posting.

---L.

[pdlloyd.livejournal.com]

It's just one of those things that happens. Without warning, and may have happened after you posted, just as easily as before.

[larryhammer]

See post edit.

---L.

[pdlloyd.livejournal.com]

That's really cool. Thank you!

There seem to be a lot of "slow motion" pictures of lightening, but at 60FPS, it's barely slower than real-time, especially when you have 5000FPS to compare it to.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Tocatta & Fugue was beautiful--much easier to understand that notation that traditional musical notation; it really seemed to match--made me happy to see it intertwining.

Ah, /b/... my teenaged son loves that site...

[larryhammer]

Oh dear. He'll grow out of it. Is he involved with the Encyclopedia Dramatica?

---L.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Is he involved with the Encyclopedia Dramatica?

*sigh* yes... >_<

But fortunately he's pretty dry-eyed about the whole thing. I *think* (... I think...) he can see the silliness of a lot of the behavior. I think he mainly likes it for some of the memes and things...

[larryhammer]

There's a good chance he'll grow out of it, then.

Some of 4chan is great fun. I just choose to spend my time elsewhere.

---L.

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Amazing links! Thank you.

Nine

[sfmarty.livejournal.com]

I think Bach would have loved that.

[coyoty.livejournal.com]

I caught the lightning here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hS32r23K1o&fmt=18).

It looks like lightning sends out random walk "scout" branches and the one that makes a conductive contact will define the path the energy takes.

[larryhammer]

Ah! Thanks. I did a little digging for a replacement, but my search fu is not as strong as yours.

---L.