World's First Music Video .. made with ASCII in Excel

AC/DC Rock N Roll Train - ASCII music video in Excel

THE WORLD’S FIRST MUSIC VIDEO IN AN EXCEL SPREADSHEET!

AC/DC smashes through your firewall with real rock ‘n’ roll! Download the spreadsheet to watch the Rock N Roll Train video in all it’s Low Definition™ glory!

ACDC.xls

You will need to adjust your security settings to enable macros for the video to work.

Don't have Excel? - watch the video in action here:

Hilarious Music Videos

A selection of hilarious music videos as picked by Steve Hoffman forum readers:

ANJ and Gorby Save Hot Girls from Stalin Zombies


Lou Reed - No Money Down
(watch to the end ..sick)


"Ken Lee"


Armi & Danny - I Wanna Love You Tender


Zlad - Elektronik-Supersonik


Hall & Oates - She's Gone


David Hasselhoff - Hooked on a Feeling


Hurra Torpedo - "Total Eclipse of the Heart"


Van Halen - Pretty Woman (Original music video)
(I've never seen this video before)


France Gall - Les Sucettes (1966)


Tommy Seebach - Apache


Yo La Tengo - Sugarcube


Righeira - Vamos A La Playa

Next Level Internet Searching Is Coming Soon...

OK, so you go to Google, Yahoo, Live, etc and can search and find results that match your text within a website. Cool. Then you can search a word and find an image that matches the result of the word you want. Sweet.

Now get this. Programmers are now incorporating audio-to-text and video-to-text with online audio and video and your text-based query. FAR OUT !!!

EveryZing uses speech-to-text technology to search for audio and video around the web. It will even search for words in YouTube videos. Right now the search results are really nothing to write home about, but give these guys a year and EVERYONE will be searching like this.

Formerly PodZinger until May, 2007, Everyzing is a Cambridge, MA based audio and video search engine that leverages speech recognition technology developed by its parent company, BBN Technologies, to look for content inside audio and video files formats. Everyzing creates a text index from the audio and video feed and uses that index to find relevant terms within published audio and video files.

As a video search engine, Everyzing highlights the segment of an audio or video file by creating text snippets around the searched terms. The user can click anywhere in the snippet to listen to or watch just that snippet segment, they can listen to the entire file, and they can download the file or subscribe to feed. Everyzing is able to perform multimedia searches in both English and Spanish, and generates RSS alerts.

Zing Index is a forum dealing with podcasts which highlights the most talked about people, the most listened audio podcasts and the most viewed video podcasts. Blog Zinger is a topical blog with strong ties to Everyzing, which was created to promote open discussions and conversations on podcasts, search, and technology-related topics as an insight into the world of Everyzing.

Recently Thomas Wilde, the new CEO of EveryZing, acknowledged that Everyzing works 70% of the time on average when there is music, ambient noise or more than one person speaking. If newscast style speaking (one person, speaking clearly, no ambient noise) is available, that can rise to up to 93%.



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new Radiohead video - made EXCLUSIVELY with Lasers alone - watch video and the making

In Radiohead's new video for "House of Cards", no cameras or lights were used. Instead, 3D plotting technologies collected information about the shapes and relative distances of objects. The video was created entirely with visualizations of that data.

Directed by James Frost
From the album IN RAINBOWS

Cameras? Radiohead don't need your stinkin' cameras. Last year Radiohead let fans download their album without paying a thing, and now they've shot a music video that doesn't use a single traditional camera.

But Radiohead's video for House of Cards is most noteworthy for what they use instead - lasers! In a clip that looks at once spectral, dazzling and eerie - not unlike the song itself - Radiohead and director James Frost have used Geometric Informatics and Velodyne Lidar technologies. The former is a method of 3D motion capture, using structured light to detail images at close proximity. And so we get contoured 3D versions of Thom Yorke's face, like the computer simulation of a mountain range.

Velodyne's Lidar technology, however, is a sophisticated update to radar. Lidar (from the acronym Light Detection and Ranging) uses laser pulses to capture and map larger environments in 3D. In this case Velodyne used 64 lasers, shooting 900 times per minute in a 360-degree radius. Ghostly exteriors and indoor party shots were captured in this way.
"I always like the idea of using technology in a way that it wasn't meant to be used, the struggle to get your head around what you can do with it," Thom Yorke said in a statement. "I liked the idea of making a video of human beings and real life and time without using any cameras, just lasers, so there are just mathematical points - and how strangely emotional it ended up being."

The video is part of Radiohead's promise not to make any "conventional" music videos for their In Rainbows material. Earlier this year they launched a contest where fans can pitch or create animated music videos for their songs. Now they are also making available the data used to create the House of Cards video, making it possible for fans to generate short clips.

When the site (hosted at http://code.google.com/radiohead) goes live, there will also be a documentary of the making-of process and a selection of 3D-rendered scenes. [UPDATE: INFO IS BELOW]

Now that Radiohead have made a music video without cameras, we hope they will continue to push the envelope. Next time - a music video without visuals! Then one without sound! Perhaps Thom Yorke could just mail fans a cardboard box to wear on their heads, while they think really hard about songs like Reckoner or Nude. We can't wait.

[Guardian]


Radiohead just released a new video for its song "House of Cards" from the album "In Rainbows".

No cameras or lights were used. Instead two technologies were used to capture 3D images: Geometric Informatics and Velodyne LIDAR. Geometric Informatics scanning systems produce structured light to capture 3D images at close proximity, while a Velodyne Lidar system that uses multiple lasers is used to capture large environments such as landscapes. In this video, 64 lasers rotating and shooting in a 360 degree radius 900 times per minute produced all the exterior scenes.

Watch the making-of video to learn about how the video was made and the various technologies that were used to capture and render 3D data.