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wizard people, dear readers

Sat, 24 May 2008 03:35:28 -0400

Noticed Dark Side of Oz mentioned here...

From wikipedia: "wizard people, dear readers" is a narrative re-telling of the lives of the characters of The Sorcerer's Stone and the world in which they live. Presented in the form of an audio book, this soundtrack is intended to replace the film's audio track. Such an infusion of dissident subtext into a pop-culture phenomenon is in line with such works as The Dark Side of Oz...

Can't wait to try this!

movies with album names

Sat, 17 May 2008 02:18:17 -0400

Here is a link to a forum topic on the Something Awful forums where people are using photoshop to change film names to album names. There is an "in rainbows" OZ poster, insomnia/amnesiac one, Jaws "with teeth", etc. Many of these are pretty clever. I relly like the Metropolis / electric ladyland poster. Thought some of you might get a laugh or two out of these, and possibly even inspiration for future synch recipes....

Indiana Jones Synchs?!

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:17:16 -0400

My girlfriend recently got the Box set so i now have all 3 Indiana Jones films at my disposal - anyone know of any synchs or have any suggestions??

The 10th Anniversary of My Pink Floyd Movie Sync Page

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 22:15:45 -0400

Today marks the 10th Anniversary of my web page:

The Pink Floyd Movie Synchronization Story

http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Amphitheatre/3528/

Check it out.

Thank you.

Regards,
Andrew Wendland

For the Dark Side of the Moon or the Pirates of the Caribbean fan

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:16:29 -0400

Here's a tip to a DSotM album sync you can find for yourself.

Fairly early in the film: The Pirates of the Carribean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Elizabeth Swann is having trouble breathing as her corset is too tight. She passes out and drops into the water below off of a high cliff.

The director is leaving a tip to the Pink Floyd song Breathe.

The fall off the cliff to the water below will sync with

"For long you live and high you fly
But only if you ride the tide"

and obviously Elizabeth falling to the bottom of the water to:

"balance on the biggest wave you race towards an early grave"

The rest of the album sync you're on your own except for one thing. If you expect that the sync goes in the exact order of the album, you will likely be very disapponted ... with this and many other syncs. You need to pay attention to the lyrics and the action on the screen.

Enjoy!

Does anyone know the Flaming Lips "Fantastic Planet" synch?

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:26:06 -0400

It uses the Yoshimi album but i need to know the set up details.
It used to be on the Lips message baord but everything got deleted...

What would it take to convince you that filmmakers and musicians often create intentional syncs?

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:37:27 -0400

This thread is really intended for the person who doesn't believe that many filmmakers or musicians create syncs (intentionally). I'm interested in your perspective.

If I were to say that filmmakers/musicians often sync music/films when creating their movies/songs. What would you need as proof before you would agree?

Said another way, short of a musician or filmmaker admitting it publicly, what evidence would be necessary for you to change your opinion?

My synchs are online!

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:23:24 -0400

Well, to be exact, only one synch. But there will be more to come.

I await your feedback!

Closer Up The Walls

R.I.P. Arthur C. Clarke

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:24:35 -0400

Arthur C. Clarke died in Sri Lanka at 1:30 this morning. I'm sure no one here needs to be reminded of just how important he was; he was a towering figure in the world of science as a writer of both fiction and nonfiction, and we will be lucky to see his kind again. I hope he's out cruising with Dave Bowman as we speak.

New NIN album Ghosts I-IV for free!

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 08:52:18 -0400

Nine inch nails has released a new album of almost 2 hours of instrumental/ambient tracks for free download and licensed under the creative commons. I got mine from thepiratebay.org so as to not leach bandwidth. With it's length and style it would be prefect for synching. http://ghosts.nin.com/

The Angry Video Game Nerd: The Wizard of Oz

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 20:01:38 -0500

In the Angry Video Game Nerd's latest video for The Wizard of Oz on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, he has included a parody of the MGM screen that includes a drawing of the DSotM cover and a second copyright date MCMLXXVIII (1973 for all you simple folk out there) followed by an @ and then Roman numerals counting the lion roars to three. The Nerd managed to get a few things working in. Not a lot, but definitely enough to let you have a nice laugh and enough to give the video some small replay value.

Jaydingo is BUMMED!

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:22:31 -0500

"Man...seriously, I really was effected by Scheider's role in Jaws (1975) & am saddened by his passing."-'Dingo

'Jaws' Actor Scheider Dies at 75
Feb. 10, 2008, 10:04 PM EST
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Roy Scheider, the actor best known for his role as a police chief in the blockbuster movie "Jaws," has died. He was 75.

Scheider died Sunday at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences hospital in Little Rock, hospital spokesman David Robinson said. The hospital did not release his cause of death.

However, hospital spokeswoman Leslie Taylor said Scheider had been treated for multiple myeloma at the hospital's Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy for the past two years.

Scheider and Richard Dreyfuss starred in the 1975 movie, "Jaws," which was widely hailed as the film that launched the era of the Hollywood blockbuster. It was the first film to earn $100 million at the box office.

In 2005, one of Scheider's most famous lines in the movie — "You're gonna need a bigger boat" — was voted No. 35 on the American Film Institute's list of best quotes from U.S. movies.

That year, some 30 years after "Jaws" premiered, hundreds of movie buffs flocked to Martha's Vineyard, off the southeastern coast of Massachusetts, to celebrate the great white shark that terrified millions of moviegoers.

The island's JawsFest '05 also brought back some of the cast and crew, including screenwriter Carl Gottlieb and Peter Benchley, who wrote the novel that inspired Steven Spielberg's enduring classic.

Spielberg, Scheider, who played a police chief, and Dreyfuss, who played an oceanographer, were absent from Jawsfest '05. Co-star Robert Shaw, who played Quint, died in 1978.

Scheider also participated in rallies protesting U.S. military action in Iraq, including a massive New York demonstration in March 2003 that police said drew 125,000 chanting activists.

**"I'll be cueing up 'JAWS LIKE SWIMMING' tonight in honor of Mr. Schenider"**-'Dingo

I am looking for feedback with the synch to the Final Cut and Star Wars ep3 ROTS

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 08:06:02 -0500

Follow my method that I posted on with The Final Cut of the Sith, and please someone tell me what you felt saw and heard. I still get exited every time I see and hear it. It would be nice to just upload it but I would not want to just piss off Lucas Films. But I would not think to do something like that tell I get more feedback. I am so confident in this synch that it’s not just a fluke that I would bet anyone who said that after hearing it they thought it was not as good as the Dark side of Oz, that I would leave the page for good. I have a list of things that I would love to compare with another over, like when the ship goes down it says floating down, there is a pacing with the movie, 3 times and it works with Palpaten and Anakens transformations, were the song Fletcher Memorial is playing, the whole thing is full of this kind of cool stuff. The song the Final Cut as well happens always with Anaken’s Dark side happening, first with his first dream vision and then when order 66 come down and then as the mask comes down on him and it says cold electronic eyes as they come down on him. Please want others to see hear this, I thought this is what this place was all about, sharing and talking about this cool and strange phenomenon.

GSWSP (review from StarWars.com)

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:41:52 -0500

"I talked to James sometime ago about reviews he'd gotten about his SW synch film project. I was more facinated with the mass media attention it was getting more then the project itself and it let me follow synch activity from non-Arkive members".

**Funny** Notice how many synch occurences he mentioned there being for DSotR. Teehee.

FROM STARWARS.COM:

The Dark Side of the Death Star: More Synchronicity
August 28, 2006
By Bonnie Burton

Imagine if John Williams' epic score as the saga's music soundtrack was replaced with your favorite records. Would Metallica's heavy guitar riffs add intensity to Luke and Darth Vader's exciting duel? Or perhaps dialog between C-3PO and R2-D2 would oddly make sense when backed by rap lyrics from Public Enemy?

This isn't a brand new experiment concept. In 1994, some Pink Floyd fans created a similar experiment called "Dark Side of the Rainbow" in which they would simultaneously play Pink Floyd's album The Dark Side of the Moon while watching the film The Wizard of Oz to see if certain film scenes and song lyrics link up.

Florida fan James Greene, Jr. came up with the idea after he heard about another fan who was watching all six Star Wars movies at once while documenting the few strange little coincidences throughout. "Naturally, this reminded me of the whole 'Dark Side of the Rainbow' thing," Greene says. "So I started to wonder about the possibility of there being an album out there that synchs up with Star Wars in the same way. The first album I ever tried -- White Zombie's La Sexorcisto -- yielded about 20 moments of synchronicity. That's not many compared to the 60 you get with Dark Side and Oz, but it was enough to get me excited. After I told a friend of mine about my experiment he remarked somewhat cynically that almost any album would probably synch up with Star Wars, and suggested I devote an entire blog to my synchronization tests. It sounded like a great idea to me, so I did it."

Even though all the films in the saga are fair game for the Synchronicity Project, Greene enjoys testing the possibilities of the original trilogy the most. "The movies I'm most excited about using are the original three -- A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi -- because I think they're the ones that the general public are most familiar with," Greene says. "Plus, they're the movies that I love most. For the project I'm using the unaltered versions -- the 1995 THX 'Faces' set, to be exact."

Since late last year, Greene has tested albums by Beastie Boys, Green Day, Blondie, Bad Religion, Meat Loaf, The Damned, Dr. Dre, Aerosmith, Nirvana, Public Enemy, and of course, Pink Floyd. After each test, he details exactly where the albums synch up with various film scenes, and explains why certain albums seem to work better than others, on his blog.

"The record with the most interesting synchs to date is Green Day's American Idiot with A New Hope," Greene says. "There are 35 total! I'm not really sure why that worked out so well, other than maybe the fact that it's a rock opera with lots of short little songs-within-songs and quick tempo shifts."

Greene also tests other movie soundtracks against the films including Ghostbusters, Cable Guy, Lost Highway, Less Than Zero and Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey. "The Ghostbusters soundtrack worked best with A New Hope probably because there's just a good mix of styles including orchestral stuff, old time rock n' roll and cheesy '80s ballads, not to mention the movie's famous title song," Greene explains. "Interestingly enough the line 'I know it's worth it all to spend my life with you' is heard in 'I Can Wait Forever' as C-3PO and R2-D2 are conversing onscreen. It reminded me how much the two act like an elderly married couple."

However, not all the musical experiments are a whopping success. "Oh, there are tons of flops," Greene laughs. "Any album with lots of love songs like Blondie's Greatest Hits with Empire never works because there aren't many lovey-dovey moments. Hardcore punk records are usually too short and fast as well. I tried the Led Zeppelin box set which ended up being a wash. Extensive guitar solos don't translate well to synchronicity."

For those fans wanting to try to synch their favorite albums, Greene offers a few tips. "I generally hit play twice real quick on the CD player to pause the CD before the music starts," Greene suggests. "Then right after the second drum roll in the 20th Century Fox fanfare, I unpause the VCR or DVD player. I do that so there isn't that brief lag between hitting 'play' and the start of the music CD. Also try to use albums that you think will have a greater propensity for synchronization. And be sure to go to the bathroom before you sit down with a 70-minute CD. That can be torture."

To read more about the latest experiments, visit the Star Wars Synchronicity Project blog here: http://starwarssynch.blogspot.com

Off topic

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 10:51:57 -0500

I discovered this incredibly strange band recently called Ice Bird Spiral. The only material I have seen or heard is this video, forgot where I read about it...

The only comment left on this vid reads, "Reminds me of Pink Floyd, if the record player were haunted, and I was withdrawing from heroin. I'm sure there is hidden genius, though, behind the masks."

Anyway, just thought I would share. Anyone else heard of or into this group? I kinda dig 'em.