Comments on: Sad song, beautiful video

Sad song, beautiful video

arielmeadow — Tue, 12 Oct 2004 18:24:40 -0800

"The Sad Song" by Fredo Viola. Gorgeously crafted music video made using 15 second jpg movies from a Nikon Coolpix 775 still camera.

By: Smart Dalek

Smart Dalek — Tue, 12 Oct 2004 18:53:36 -0800

[This is Good]

By: cathodeheart

cathodeheart — Tue, 12 Oct 2004 19:27:51 -0800

fredo rocks. if you like this, make sure to check out more of his work (linked from that page), which is uniformly excellent. also, on behalf of the fine folks hosting this video at panicnow.net: "it's my server...PLEASE BE KIND!" (my site's hosted there too, so don't break it, mefi!)

By: Peter H

Peter H — Tue, 12 Oct 2004 19:31:40 -0800

(clicked the link, left for dinner, still downloading)

By: Espoo2

Espoo2 — Tue, 12 Oct 2004 20:31:17 -0800

Yes, I'm sure JdG is sweating. Please be kind. Maybe someone could mirror it?

By: Espoo2

Espoo2 — Tue, 12 Oct 2004 20:31:57 -0800

Oh, and of course, the video is stunning. Great great work. Fredo is going places.

By: dhartung

dhartung — Tue, 12 Oct 2004 21:15:16 -0800

Coralized Mirror (already marginally faster)

By: tss

tss — Tue, 12 Oct 2004 21:53:47 -0800

That's a really beautiful video. I have to indulge myself---I love picking out objects and landmarks in music videos (f'r'instance I would have loved to know what some of the cities in that Michel Gondry video posted a while back were). It's clear that some of the video was recorded on one of those MTA commuter rail trains---it goes through a station named "Scarborough" (I don't know much about the NYC area, never having lived there). Also, his bike handlebars look an awful lot like the ones that belong to my own Specialized hybrid.

By: n9

n9 — Tue, 12 Oct 2004 22:05:41 -0800

Fredo lives in woodstock, NY. It's cool to see em411ers here? Check out em411 for a lot of free and often brilliant music and one of the best online communities anywhere.

By: dazed_one

dazed_one — Tue, 12 Oct 2004 22:29:38 -0800

Good stuff. Thanks.

By: Peter H

Peter H — Tue, 12 Oct 2004 23:12:53 -0800

Goddamn, this is beautiful. Thank you.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Tue, 12 Oct 2004 23:17:58 -0800

That's really incredible. Clever use of such a low-tech method to make a great video. I just bought a CD off the dude.

By: Espoo2

Espoo2 — Tue, 12 Oct 2004 23:18:20 -0800

n9: me= papergoose @ em411 . Neat to see you here. :) Fredo is also there @ fredo.em411.com and while we are killing his server, you might as well check out jdg's music at jdg.em411.com

By: cathodeheart

cathodeheart — Tue, 12 Oct 2004 23:30:53 -0800

em411 reprazent, n9 and papergoose, sez airliner

By: ArsncHeart

ArsncHeart — Tue, 12 Oct 2004 23:46:42 -0800

i approve. beautiful.

By: fenriq

fenriq — Tue, 12 Oct 2004 23:52:37 -0800

Wowee, this took forever to load and quit almost just before the end but I saw plenty that made me just freakin' amazed. I'd link to him but I don't want to kill his bandwidth. Utterly incredible.

By: Happydaz

Happydaz — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 00:14:18 -0800

Incredible.

By: ruddhist

ruddhist — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 00:53:10 -0800

Awesome. I was a bit distracted by the fact that I was looking up his nose the whole time, but an amazing piece of work nonetheless. : )

By: mr.marx

mr.marx — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 00:56:55 -0800

Speechless.

By: zsazsa

zsazsa — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 06:35:40 -0800

The coral cache link above doesn't cache the movie. Here's a direct link to coral cache of movie.

By: psychotic_venom

psychotic_venom — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 08:13:52 -0800

That is, by far, the coolest video I have ever seen.

By: mcsweetie

mcsweetie — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 09:08:04 -0800

very inspiring. good find!

By: fredosan

fredosan — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 14:53:16 -0800

Wow! And here I thought the video feature on digital cameras (and on the Nikon 775 in particular, as I also had one) was useless. That was frickin' brilliant! This Fredo is going to support that Fredo with a CD purchase.

By: sinical

sinical — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 18:28:29 -0800

That was amazing. I think the more impressive thing really though was the editing. I actually had an idea to this a while ago, but have no worthy subject. I had suggested it to a friend in a band too, and we even briefly tossed around ideas I think.

By: mecran01

mecran01 — Thu, 14 Oct 2004 18:30:50 -0800

Torrent worthy.