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Along the same lines - the whales at 2m22s swimming backwards? Didn't spot that one the first time around. Otherwise, the only thing I picked up on was ... those damn cats again! The leg movements of the lynx at 0m37s and the leopards at 0m50s are "off". In the case of the leopards, the...

What I want really want to know is what's the story at 1m27s with the white minivan reversing up the street, then taking off against the flow of traffic ...? :D

@Nate North : your post above answered some questions before I'd asked them, but one remains - for long-format movie, do you see a market for a work that changes every time it's viewed? Narrative or non-narrative, I would think that anyone offering a 90-minute visual experience would want a...

Ah, don't worry about it! It's not like I didn't just spend two months trekking around four countries in search of the perfect button - the perfect patterned button - for a waistcoat I'm making to wear to the same opera venue in July. :cool: The venue and production in question, for anyone...

As a proud member of the HardlyAnyone Society, my stash of fabrics is well stocked with plain solid colours. 😝 I'm not opposed to patterned fabric (and yeah, of course I pulled them off the rack for the purposes of the photo above), but they're better suited to individual/small scale pieces -...

No reason to be embarrassed at all by that - it looks like it could easily have been slipped into a Monthy Python montage and no-one would have thought it below their standard. 👍 Have you sold the rights yet for the live action re-make? :pop:

I'm not not impressed by the work of a team of surgeons who claim to have helped a guy walk again using some AI, but (quoting from the article linked in the other thread): For good measure, they also provided us with a team photo: Oh, look: humans, humans, humans ... so what exactly did the...

😒 Mehhh ... someone plagiarised a whole LOTR trailer and ran it through three different AI video generators until it looked good enough pass for the output of one of them. So it's Peter Jackon's live-action LOTR resample as animation, directed by a guy with several AI accounts. In other words...

Let this moving image speak the thousand words :lol:: It accurately captures the listener's experience when faced with an instrument played by an enthusiastic amateur - of the kind one might find in an alehouse. 🍻 I imagine JSB would almost certainly have heard it played like this quite...

In the olden days, we used to call that "the magic of the internet" 🧙‍♂️ Fresh from making my own way down cobbled throughfares this weekend, may I suggest a small change to your description: hurdy-gurdy music from a coffeehouse, shouts and laughter from an alehouse, I would write: the...

The AIs have left the conversation ... 🤖

Alas, you can't count on me for the updates. Am doing a dishonest day's work tomorrow before heading down the road and across the border to treat my ears (and feet) to several hours of this:

Ehhhhh .... it wouldn't work without the crank! 😁 That's actually an electric hurdy-gurdy he's playing (still needs the crank, though ...) and the "bass guitar" sound is him plucking the drone strings that would usually be strummed by a wheel (driven by the crank ...) The guy in question...

Ooooooooh, don't disrespect the hurdy-gurdy, or you can consider your festival invitation cancelled! 👹

You should definitely treat yourself to at least one edition of our festival in July and enjoy watching those threads being woven together in real time. If you behave yourself, I might even be able to convince Ms. Heiderich to let you pluck at her strings ... 🤫

From the other thread: The baroque period (IMO) marked the end of that "hey, get this" phase of what became classical music. Up until then, music was largely either "functional" - rhythmic songs to work to, an extension of religious services, an alternative way to memorise and re-tell a story...

Is it swing you want? Well ... howzabout this? 😁 (fair warning: the first minute-and-a-half is just a bit of silliness) I've had a more "pro" version on this piece on my YT dulcimer playlist for several years (TV appearance by the same duo when they were younger), but in some ways, I prefer...

Actually, there is more to add ... but it's seriously tangential! If you hang around in that part of the world - Appenzell, eastern Switzerland - you'll see and hear many a body playing a style of hammered dulcimer that's almost identical to the baroque salterio played by Franziska...

Well ... there's nothing more to add, is there? Except, maybe, a picture of some hilarious, musical cows. Not Köthen cows (not even German), but they do come with their own musical cowherds. :cool:

You have Zora to thank for that! Although not so much melancholic memory as futuristic fantastising. She has become my muse! 😻 If I can get to speak to her for more than five minutes at a stage door every six to nine months, I'm hoping she'll agree to be the This Is Serious Music...