{"id":742,"date":"2006-11-07T07:00:44","date_gmt":"2006-11-07T12:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=742"},"modified":"2006-11-07T06:18:19","modified_gmt":"2006-11-07T11:18:19","slug":"theynow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=742","title":{"rendered":"TheyNow"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is cool: My little YouTube movie<\/a> was mentioned in TheyNow, an unofficial They Might Be Giants audioblog<\/a>. <\/p>\n

(As an aside, What is that little embedded audio player? It doesn’t seem to be branded. It’s a very small and low-profile player, which might make it the sort of thing Fledge was looking for a couple of weeks ago<\/a>. I’m not sure. I can’t tell where the audio is hosted, which is the key question here.)<\/p>\n

Anyway, in the podcast Bryan talks about me using a TMBG song for my little movie. The song I used in this case was “Older”, and the version I used was off of their Mink Car<\/em> album. He speculates that I chose the song at random. Sadly, the real reason I chose that song was even less interesting: I chose the song because it was the shortest of all of the TMBG I had on my computer. The cut of Older that I used was almost exactly two minutes, which was about how long my movie was. That was the only reason I chose it in the first place. It was only after I dropped it into place that I realized how perfect it was: Each section of the song fit nicely over a segment of the movie, and the most exciting part of the song lined up really well with the action part of the movie, which is where the rollercoaster runs everyone over. Those booming hits of percussion turned out to be ideal cues for the cuts I wanted to make. <\/p>\n

I enjoyed making the movie, and a lot of people on YouTube have subscribed to me in hopes that I’ll put up another, but I honestly doubt I can do that again. It was the result of serendipity as much as creativity.<\/p>\n

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