Hey, I had finally been screwing around with one of those slideshow apps to make some shows of my father-in-laws nature photos and piano music....real Miramar/Windham Hill material. It's been a real gas.
But I wanted to poke around with other areas that interest me so I concocted two vids to see what I could come up with. My machine's pretty old(4 years..an eternity in the computer realm) so it doesn't handle advanced video clip work and barely handles ProShowGold's slide environment without overloading itself.
I just thought I'd see what people might think of 'em. Any criticism is fine as, let's face it, if I were too thin-skinned about it, I most certainly wouldn't have posted 'em on the internet for all to see. Honestly I'm more interested in getting the subject matter some exposure. Well, anyway...
This first one's a short music video about the Essex Mountain Sanatorium that was unfortunately torn down some years ago. Closed down in '82 and slowly torn down with it's final razing around 2002, I had quite a few visits to the abandoned asylum over my late teens and twenties and it never failed to leave an impression on me. Of course, this was over a decade before urban archaeology and the appreciation of decaying hospitals really took off. For a good cry, check out SESSION 9 and then read what's become of that beautiful Danvers State Hospital!
The music is Wojciech Kilar's lush and haunting theme from THE NINTH GATE. As I mention on the youtube page, check out
http://www.mountainsanatorium.net/ for the first and last word on this page in American medical history.
sometimes my browser doesn't want to deal with remote youtubery so here is the hyperlink for the vids page:
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This second one I whipped up quick and dirty with pics I could find around the net. It's a bogus commercial spot I created for the Holocaust Museum in Washington. I used the noted 'poem' from Pastor Niemoller(that's his recurring visage in the video) as I believe it's point is just as timely now as it was then.
The music is from a source almost 180 degrees away from the subject matter. That being said, once I heard the cue, I couldn't shake it's insistent strength.
Again, the link for this vid:
Anyway, any feedback is always welcome. As I'm new to this kind of stuff I can only learn more and assimilate criticisms.
And if you care to this is my youtube page(hub, channel, whatever the hell you call it!)
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=detectivethorne where you can see all the crazy s**t I dig on youtube.
[note]Andrew or Mods...if this is in the wrong area, please feel free to move it to the appropriate spot.