Saturday, March 7, 2009

Opening Title Sequence for Watchmen

yU+Co, the company that did the opening credits for Watchmen have put the clip online:

RedDog - Hell and Scissors


Shot with my cheapie pocket camcorder while helping my friend Greg (www.youtube.com/user/bensandbreak) film his documentary for 2009 Doc Challenge (www.docchallenge.org).

After my job was done, I got to watch RedDog play the hell out of some traditional old-time American music.

RedDog is Doug Yule, Cary Lung, Tom Collicott and Little Ann Yule (www.reddogseattle.com)

Click through the HD button to watch in High definition on Vimeo.com

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Warcraft Cinematic: Glory of the Raider

Great World of Warcraft movie showing a guild's progress through the Heroic: Glory of the Raider acheivment:


View on YouTube

Worth watching in HD (follow the HD link)

I saw this first on WoWInsider.com but there was a kerfluffle about proper credit to the creators, so:

The creator, Ciderhelm's youtube channel (lots of instructional WoW videos):
http://www.youtube.com/user/Ciderhelm

Video discussion, including software, music used, etc.:
http://www.tankspot.com/forums/f206/46046-glory-raider-cinematic-movie.html

Monday, March 2, 2009

JoCo Looks Back - Free download of Jonathan Coulton album




Jonathan Coulton (Still Alive (Portal), Code Monkey, Baby Got Back, Skullcrusher Mountain, etc.) released his album 'JoCo Looks Back' under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-commercial-Share Alike license. It's available for free download (Bittorrent client required) at:

LegalTorrents.com

Coolest part is that under the 'source' directory, you'll find all the unmixed audio files for the entire album.

From the included text file:

At the end of 2008, the ever innovative Brooklyn-based singer songwriter Jonathan Coulton teamed up with Creative Commons to release his greatest hits compilation "JoCo Looks Back" on a 1gb custom Creative Commons jump drive to help support our 2008 campaign. Also included on the album is all of the unmixed audio tracks for every song on the drive. That's over 700mb of JoCo thing-a-week goodness.This torrent includes everything originally released on the jump drives.Since all of JoCo's music is released under our Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license, this is an incredible opportunity for the public to remix and reuse his fantastic music. Song files are in 320kbps MP3 and unmixed audio tracks are in 256 VBR MP3.If you enjoy this torrent, please considering supporting Creative Commons via http://support.creativecommons.org/ and Jonathan Coulton via http://www.jonathancoulton.com/