Obama "Yes We Can" Video
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LED Magic
Hulu
Some tv shows come with commercials, but they are 30 seconds or
less, so you're back to your show in no time. Plus the ads that I
have seen are usually not too bad, I've seen only Chevrolet and
Saturn commercials, both cleaver ads that show how economically
sound their hybrids are. definitely no "as seen on tv" ads
here!
With a nice clean slick player, Hulu really has done it right. I have moused over the video so the controls are shown in the screen shot above, but normally you would just see the video playing in a nice black gradient surrounding, or you can view in fullscreen with nothing but your video on the screen. It's pretty awesome, go check it out for yourself!
The Fibonacci Sequence In Lateralus
Further more, check this out... (It's crazy to see how genius some
people are.)
"I had doodled a few spirals in the corners of my graph paper, and
in doing so made the first important connection to Lateralus. I
knew that if the tracks were in fact intended to be heard in a
different order, "Parabol" and "Parabola" would have to go
together. In drawing my spirals, I had begun with a vertex and
'spiraled' outwards. After writing the numbers 1 through 13
linearly, I could immediately see that Parabol and Parabola would
have to be the middle of my spiral (in that 13 / 2 = 6.5). I drew a
simple arrow between 6 and 7 and then pondered the next pair. At
first, I actually drew a spiral connecting pairs of numbers whose
sum equaled 13 (the number of songs on the album). This, however,
left the last track in the same position and without anything to
connect to. At this time, I had used my copy of Lateralus and Cool
Edit Pro to take out the silences between tracks and put the songs
in the following order: 6,7,5,8,4,9,3,10,2,11,1,12,13. The
transition from Parabola into Schism blew my mind, as the plucks,
probably dismissed by listeners as a drawn out rant of an ending,
perfectly transition into the beginning of Schism. When you count
out beats as the strings are plucked, Schism resumes with the same
time signature and tempo - mirroring the progression of notes. The
transition from Schism into Ticks & Leeches is equally
intriguing. Schism ends with strong double-kick bass and tom
smacks, and Ticks & Leeches begins with what many would call a
'tribal' drum beat. The beat at the very start of Ticks &
Leeches is slightly different every subsequent time it is repeated
- the measures are two beats longer. Yup - you guessed it - those
two beats are ACTUALLY the last two beats of
Schism."
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