[HN Gopher] Sesame Street Pinball Number Count [video]
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Sesame Street Pinball Number Count [video]
Author : cameron_b
Score : 57 points
Date : 2023-09-23 13:54 UTC (9 hours ago)
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| throw0101b wrote:
| Somewhat related, but their "Geometry of Circles" was written by
| Philip Glass:
|
| * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JWwOzEDGss
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| * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9467zZV0Lc
|
| * https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Geometry_of_Circles
| pierrec wrote:
| That's amazing and I'm now wondering if it influenced the
| demoscene. In fact I'm specifically thinking of "Intrinsic
| Gravity" by Still, which has fairly similar concepts going on,
| especially at the end. It's also one of the best executable
| demos I've ever seen.
|
| https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=64756
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZxPhDC-r3w
| JKCalhoun wrote:
| Wut? The length of the video is 12:12.
| jayknight wrote:
| There are 11 of them all strung together 2-12 each got their
| own segment with a different solo section.
| quickthrowman wrote:
| Venetian Snares did a breakcore remix of this song around 20
| years ago, released on the _Infolepsy EP_ in 2004:
| https://youtu.be/AqN53CBb9to?si=wzHFA06T6N-6fxiV
| dylan604 wrote:
| All I needed was the title, and could immediately hear the tune
| in my head. This is one of those videos that I turn to as
| evidence on how we were being groomed to be trippy little stoner
| kids. Oh, and all of the Sid&Marty Krofft shows too.
| shannifin wrote:
| Something about that rolling marble is so satisfying. Haven't
| seen or even thought about this animation in decades, and yet
| it's completely familiar. It's amazing to think about memories
| just lying dormant in the brain for so long, consciously
| inaccessible without the proper stimulation. What other random
| stuff is hidden up there?
| ramesh31 wrote:
| Why was TV so great in the 70s? What happened?
| ThinkingGuy wrote:
| Deregulation had a lot to do with it.
| dylan604 wrote:
| The drugs of choice changed in the 80s. In the 60s/70s, it was
| lots of weed and psychedelics. In the 80s, it switched to
| cocaine, then crack in the 90s. And as we all all know, crack
| is whack!
| sleepybrett wrote:
| Republicans. They defunded PBS.
| ravenstine wrote:
| HOLY CRAP
|
| For practically my whole life I've had this recurring memory of a
| 1-12 song with this exact rhythm and couldn't remember where it
| was from. The older I got, the more I wondered if it was
| manufactured purely by my imagination. I'm pretty sure this is
| it. Even though it was made before my time, it must have either
| been re-run in the 90s or some teacher might have played it off a
| VHS tape.
|
| Also, gotta love how the video is 12 minutes and 12 seconds long.
| :)
| cameron_b wrote:
| It ran until the early 2000s
| ianbicking wrote:
| I loved the ramps and movement of this video as a kid... and the
| mysterious and abrupt holes that apparently send the ball to one
| of many levels of this strange contraption/world.
|
| I got the same feelings with Commander Mark and The Secret City,
| the PBS drawing show:
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_City (also on YouTube,
| though the video quality is disappointing)
| halfcat wrote:
| Always liked Pentatonix rendition on Sesame Street
|
| https://youtu.be/0b-v-wMR69k
| wodenokoto wrote:
| Link links to a better version at:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC7l3V1nhWc&t=0s
|
| Consider updating the link.
| dylan604 wrote:
| I'm actually surprised that someone paid to have the SD source
| clean up and uprezed to HD. Must have been a pretty clean SD
| source, maybe some 1" that was only used a couple of times and
| definitely not someone's broadcast tape.
| kencausey wrote:
| I'm just guessing but it seems highly likely that the
| original production was recorded to film and not to tape.
| Given access to the original film would make it easy to
| transfer at a higher quality than the original broadcast.
| drivers99 wrote:
| Much better. Especially the aspect ratio.
| sleepybrett wrote:
| I had no idea this track was sung by the pointer sisters. Wild.
| drblast wrote:
| I never realized the extent to which The Children's Television
| Workshop must have been fueled by psychedelics.
|
| But now Big Bird is making a whole lot more sense.
| viraptor wrote:
| This style reminds me of the opening animation of Soul Train
| https://youtu.be/y3FNXkeXhOc and a bit of the Beatles animated
| movie.
|
| Does that style of animation have a name?
| milesvp wrote:
| Maybe. I never got the impression Jim Henson needed
| psychedelics though. It was certainly in the zeitgeist of the
| time if you were counter culture which I think sesame street
| was certainly trying to be at the time.
| MichaelMoser123 wrote:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcZUPDMXzJ8 Dumbo's dream is
| from 1941, so it must have been ahead of its time!
| dylan604 wrote:
| And Big Bird's imaginary friend was always high a kite.
| "Heeeeyyyy Biiirrrrrrrd". At least they didn't make him a pink
| elephant.
| jahnu wrote:
| I absolutely adored the psychedelic stylings of the pinball
| number count as a kid and still do. The kids tv stuff from that
| era even in conservative Ireland was well weird and funky.
| Check out the into to this mainstay of children's tv I grew up
| with:
|
| https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6hKsyebZUrA
|
| Tell me they weren't dropping acid when they came up with that!
| notamy wrote:
| A related video I saw recently:
| https://youtu.be/TMtGImlEmu0?si=hXBBVi19WZBg_KYI
|
| > This song teaches counting but is INSANELY hard to count
|
| It goes into the theory of how the song works; to me as a
| layperson it was fairly educational.
| dylan604 wrote:
| This guy has so much (too much?) youtube energy. It's
| exhausting. Do people act like this in person, or is it solely
| their youtube persona? what makes this silent movie over acting
| level of over the top something that is such a thing on
| youtube?
| milesvp wrote:
| For the record. I get like this when I'm really geeking out
| over something. I also know that I can be exhausting to
| listen to when I'm like this, and try to tone it down
| depending on my audience. Though, if I was a youtube
| personality I would probably try to lean into it slightly.
| pkdpic wrote:
| George Lucas (half a century ago): "Faster, more intense!"
| petercooper wrote:
| There's an adage in producing video or being on TV that you
| need to act 2x "more" than your usual self to appear mildly
| engaging due to the limits of the medium. Some people go a
| bit further than that, but the idea of being far more intense
| and full-on than you would ever be in real life is pretty
| standard in modern video production. Makeup, lighting, and
| other factors will often be dialled up too.
|
| I've seen plenty of shy, geeky folks who've become YouTube
| famous talk about the necessity to do this as they
| progressed. You can see it for yourself, too, if you find a
| successful channel and go back to the oldest videos. The
| energy and style of talking will ramp up over time. Quite few
| folks will talk, act, and look entirely as they might
| naturally.
| dylan604 wrote:
| This is actually not the case in credible acting class. No
| acting teacher will tell you to act like a buffoon for the
| sake of being engaging unless you're trying to be a
| children's programming buffoon. Even then, if you look at
| what's popular for longer than a hot minute in children's
| programming, the people don't act like that. The people on
| TV that act like that are usually trying to sell you
| something. People believing "over the top == good" probably
| grew up liking JarJar Binks.
| petercooper wrote:
| This is more an idea around _presenting_ than acting, but
| I wasn 't talking about being a buffoon, as such, but
| using more energy to overcome the limitations of the
| medium and to, ironically, appear more "normal" on
| screen.
|
| If you watch a lot of popular YouTubers' early vs later
| videos, you can see it in effect. It's common to see
| radical developments in elocution, projection, and energy
| from their natural state, and it's nearly always for the
| better.
| dylan604 wrote:
| If you think this doesn't make them look like a buffoon,
| then you are much more generous than I.
|
| "always for the better" that's definitely a matter of
| opinion, and I'm not buying it. it's just another in the
| long list of reasons why i don't spend a lot of time
| watching these types of "creators"
| IndySun wrote:
| > (too much?)
|
| Yes. Coming across whilst browsing, or being recommended,
| anyone that talks 'like this' (overacted, yes, overreacting
| too), plus is edited so frenetically, is a turn off. The talk
| is deliberately longer than it needs to be. Feels like being
| doorstepped.
| usea wrote:
| It's a youtube persona. One of the most effective ways to
| increase your chances of success in modern media is to be
| loud and emotive. It's way past trend phase and is now
| endemic on all platforms among content creators who hope to
| have any younger viewers.
| dylan604 wrote:
| My concern is that people will actually start acting this
| way in person every day. I've known a few people that are
| larger than life over the top whenever they do anything,
| but they luckily have been rare. These type of people would
| definitely make me refuse to RTO if my coworkers were like
| this.
| jacquesm wrote:
| Wait until you hear about Blippi...
| smrq wrote:
| Warning: I saw this video three days ago and I had this damn
| song playing in my head even before I saw this link today.
| It'll never leave.
|
| (It's a great song, at least...)
| xpe wrote:
| Why should I go watch this on YouTube? What is the angle that's
| interesting?
| xpe wrote:
| To phrase my question another way: why is this on-topic?
|
| > On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting.
| That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to
| reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that
| gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
|
| > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports,
| or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new
| phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal
| pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-
| topic.
| cameron_b wrote:
| The link shared by notamy is part of it, the musicality is
| phenomenally technical, but also the collaboration and
| creativity in the production ( the top-of-their-craft
| musicians and animations ).
| krapp wrote:
| The link by notamy should have been what was posted, then
| we could have an interesting discussion about music theory,
| maybe.
|
| But pure nostalgia-bait is exactly the kind of vapid
| content we're supposed to avoid around here. There little
| if any intelligent discussion happening here, it's just
| member-berries and posturing cynicism. Even the subthread
| by notamy is just griping about the way the youtuber
| presents himself.
|
| Flagged for brain cancer.
| milesward wrote:
| As a musician who also works in tech, it's a little like a post
| mortem of a particularly novel and elegant architectural
| response to a challenging use case, a bit like Carmack's
| Reverse. Our expectation is that a song in 12 will sound
| disjoint and clunky, this one is catchy and funky. Masterful!
| dylan604 wrote:
| Since you're not going to watch it, I'll tell you it's about
| the 12 seconds left on the timer before the bomb goes off, but
| the Bert & Ernie buddy cop team comes in and disarms the bomb
| at 1 second, and the older buddy cop says "I'm too old for
| this" and something about only having two weeks left before his
| pension.
| kolanos wrote:
| If you grew up in the 70's or 80's it is nostalgia porn.
| madcaptenor wrote:
| Yes but it makes me mad that Sesame Street is a shadow of
| what it used to be, and (HBO) Max doesn't have the old ones
| to show to my kids.
| esaym wrote:
| Torrent.
| bluesounddirect wrote:
| Sesame Street changed in the early 2000's . They started to
| invest in digital animation, the issue I had with it was
| too much energy was put into the production of the medium
| and not enough into the quality of the content . The last
| years of pbs before it went to hbo were odd , but my kids
| aged out of it then too . But good memories none the less .
| xpe wrote:
| I asked pretty much the same kind of question in response to
| another post, and it was recognized as being very valuable.
|
| This one was perceived differently. Based on the unusually high
| number of downvotes, I have some explanations that may explain
| them: some people have little awareness / appreciation for
| (some combination of):
|
| - the importance of signal to noise ratio on HN
|
| - YouTube, for many, is an unwelcome rabbit hole --- and so a
| lot of people don't want to go there without good reason
|
| - the value of asking "what do you get out of this" questions
|
| I am genuinely curious about other people's brains work. I'm
| also acutely interested in building better awareness and even
| mechanisms for collaborating and discussing.
| PDTao5Q2TMaTp7U wrote:
| Thats the Pointer Sisters
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinball_Number_Count on vocals
| there.
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