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Is in the realms of the unreal actually available to the general public somehow? I can't find any indication that even excerpts have been published. I can see why they didn't originally publish it in it's entirety but it seems pretty criminal not to create an ebook at this point.
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Was going to ask the same thing, but it appears not. I'm kinda surprised that nobody's taken it on as a project, like Yale have done for the Voynich Manuscript.
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Literally The Worst posted:I'm reading every single page of this thread and I just hit this post. Sword and Scale is one of my favorite podcasts ever because it's the furthest thing from the well-researched and laid out and Serious Journalism style of Serial. It's just a trashy true crime novel every few weeks, told by a dude who treats the Jonny Gosch sex ring conspiracy bullshit as gospel. I love it. It's also got a certain distinction as the only podcast I've ever had to shut off for being too loving gross (the episode that was text-to-speech readings of chatlogs between people discussing murdering and eating children. If you read it out loud between people it'd feel ridiculous, like a tryhard law and order episode, but with the cold detachment of the TTS it was terrifying) There's an episode of this (I might have posted about it since) that features the infamous 3 guys 1 hammer video. There is audio of the events, and if you closed it for the (what i thought was obvious) fantasy of the cannibal paedophile episode, you're going to vomit when you get to that one. if you get to that one, don't listen to it. I can take pretty bad poo poo (I used to work in a morgue), but that loving audio will haunt me forever.
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May 6, 2015 14:46
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stickyfngrdboy posted:There's an episode of this (I might have posted about it since) that features the infamous 3 guys 1 hammer video. There is audio of the events, and if you closed it for the (what i thought was obvious) fantasy of the cannibal paedophile episode, you're going to vomit when you get to that one. if you get to that one, don't listen to it. Is this about those Russian teenagers? I thought it was just 2 guys...I hope there's not another hammer video out there I don't know about.
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Literally The Worst posted:I'm reading every single page of this thread and I just hit this post. Sword and Scale is one of my favorite podcasts ever because it's the furthest thing from the well-researched and laid out and Serious Journalism style of Serial. It's just a trashy true crime novel every few weeks, told by a dude who treats the Jonny Gosch sex ring conspiracy bullshit as gospel. I love it. It's also got a certain distinction as the only podcast I've ever had to shut off for being too loving gross (the episode that was text-to-speech readings of chatlogs between people discussing murdering and eating children. If you read it out loud between people it'd feel ridiculous, like a tryhard law and order episode, but with the cold detachment of the TTS it was terrifying) Sounds like the podcast equivalent of those crime magazines.
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MrMidnight posted:Is this about those Russian teenagers? I thought it was just 2 guys...I hope there's not another hammer video out there I don't know about. Well there's two guys (the brothers, maybe?) who commit some obscene acts of violence, and one other, who didn't really do much on account of being horribly murdered. And the fucker who filmed it, but he wasn't credited. It's the Russian thing though yeah. I've not seen it.
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May 6, 2015 14:56
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These sick Ukraine bastards? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnepropetrovsk_maniacs
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http://imgur.com/gallery/pQr8T Here's some creepy stuff to listen to. For some reason I can read whatever and not have it get to me, but listening makes it real and much, much more creepy.
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May 6, 2015 15:32
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Moey posted:These sick Ukraine bastards? What I love about Wikipedia is the assurance that if I click on a link like this, I will get a reasonably accurate and graphic description of the events, but NOT be subjected to horrifying photos, autoplay audio or video, or generally anything that's likely to traumatize me or get me fired.
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May 6, 2015 15:50
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Moey posted:These sick Ukraine bastards? Yeah. Don't listen to that podcast about this. The article's bad enough.
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stickyfngrdboy posted:Yeah. Don't listen to that podcast about this. The article's bad enough. The video is even worse.
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This was making the rounds on social media last night and I made the terrible mistake of listening to The's Lord Prayer snippet right before bed. Edison's Talking Dolls Can Now Provide The Soundtrack To Your Nightmares 
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Leviathan Song posted:Is in the realms of the unreal actually available to the general public somehow? I can't find any indication that even excerpts have been published. I can see why they didn't originally publish it in it's entirety but it seems pretty criminal not to create an ebook at this point. I've seen some excerpts, and it really doesn't seem readable.
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Rincewind posted:That said, that post was somehow the first I'd heard of the real-world Max Headroom pirating incident and Good article, and it leads to this unnerving youtube about Clutch Cargo (proclick imo). The Max Headroom wannabe was humming its theme song and (may of) directly quoted it. Clutch Cargo was your basic adventure serial that played 5 minutes a day, with an option to play them all together as a half hour show come Saturday morning. It was a pretty flexible show for television shows to run.  Meet the gang! So far, so good- Clutch Cargo was a cartoon series with extremely limited animation for everything but "Syncro-Vox" - the lips were voice actors real life ones, super-imposed on top of the character's face.  This work is not of God  Yeah, the effect didn't always mesh and you ended up gazing down into the Uncanny Valley. You've seen modern-day applications of this technique on late-night shows (usually imposed over the face of an actual person) and that show about that there Annoying Orange. Here, it was used unironically.  Sometimes they did draw mouths. It didn't help. There was a "tribute" to Syncro-Vox in "Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers" (1992) (skip to 6:39 for it) which left a strong impression on young me because what in the actual hell was I looking at here?!  First GIS result, btw, so it wasn't just me. Some interesting things about Clutch Cargo, now that you totally clicked the first link and experienced it: quote:Actress Margaret Kerry, who provided the look, style, and movement of Tinker Bell in the 1953 Walt Disney Studios production of Peter Pan, provided both the voices and lips of Spinner and Paddlefoot quote:Hal Smith, who voiced Owl in Disney's Winnie the Pooh series and played Otis Campbell on The Andy Griffith Show, was the voice of Clutch's grizzled, pith-helmeted friend Swampy, as well as numerous other characters. quote:Occasionally traditional animation was also employed in the series, notably in the episode The Lost Plateau, in which brief segments of animated dinosaurs stood out. quote:The character Paddlefoot, with his scratching and comical movements, was singled out as the most common cause of "skyrocketing" animation costs at Cambria. quote:Live-action footage of an airplane was used as well, specifically that of a rare 1929 Bellanca C-27 Airbus. quote:The musical soundtrack to Clutch Cargo was, in its own way, as limited, and yet as inventive within those limitations, as the animation. Jazz musician Paul Horn provided a score using nothing more than bongos, a vibraphone and a flute. quote:"We are not making animated cartoons. We are photographing 'motorized movement' and—the biggest trick of all—combining it with live action. This enables us to produce film at about one-fifth what it costs Hanna and Barbera. Footage that Disney does for $250,000 we do for $18,000."[1] None will soon forget its award-winning depiction of Eskimos, however:  As also seen on Pulp-Fiction, which had a brief scene of someone watching Clutch Cargo
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Kitsch! posted:This was making the rounds on social media last night and I made the terrible mistake of listening to The's Lord Prayer snippet right before bed. This is fab I wish I was still teaching the history of pop music, as I did quite a lot of stuff on mechanical music and the early days of the industry. These dolls were part of the lecture, and if I could have freaked out the students even more with audio,  I'm also just generally interested in how current technology is able to read media that has been silent for so long (or, like Scott de Martinville, were recordings made as a visual record only. They had no means to play them back themselves.) Ms Boods has a new favorite as of 18:19 on May 6, 2015 |
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May 6, 2015 18:17
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Kitsch! posted:This was making the rounds on social media last night and I made the terrible mistake of listening to The's Lord Prayer snippet right before bed. Edison's voice recordings from the 19th century are awesome. From 1888 - William Gladstone, UK Prime Minister: https://soundcloud.com/thisisparker/william-gladstone-recorded-by-thomas-edison
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stickyfngrdboy posted:There's an episode of this (I might have posted about it since) that features the infamous 3 guys 1 hammer video. There is audio of the events, and if you closed it for the (what i thought was obvious) fantasy of the cannibal paedophile episode, you're going to vomit when you get to that one. if you get to that one, don't listen to it. That one was actually way less creepy to me than the cannibal chat. The only part of that episode that really bothered me was the audio from reaction videos of people watching 1 Lunatic 1 Icepick. Really, the vast majority of Sword and Scale doesn't phase me at all except to go "man there's some hosed up people in this world", but I think a decent part of that comes from a childhood full of trashy true crime shows. It also helps that Mike Boudet is just the biggest goober imaginable, to the point where he didn't know what 420 was in one episode, and I really get the impression that he just wants to make a bombastic podcast. poo poo, the dude treated the crazy secret Satanic government child sex ring conspiracy in the Jonny Gosch episodes like it was loving gospel, despite all of that poo poo being disproven at this point. Kurtofan posted:Sounds like the podcast equivalent of those crime magazines. It really is. There's a few really stand out episodes. 11 and 12 come to mind, about a ~mysterious stalker~ who murdered a girl, except the odds of the stalker existing or any of the poo poo actually happening are nonexistent, and it's much more likely that it's a case of Munchausen's-by-proxy, which then gets into this crazy poo poo where a dude is being stalked and having his life ruined for years over an internet chatroom. Most of the time though it's poo poo like Jim Schutze's Bully! in audio form. Also, Mike Boudet did not know what 420 was. I can't stress this enough, the man runs an over the top lurid podcast and when a murder victim's mother said "Are you familiar with 420" he said "no", and I really have to try to convince myself that he was just trying to keep an interview going. BENGHAZI 2 has a new favorite as of 18:46 on May 6, 2015 |
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I love listening to old-time recordings, where they seem to have an accent (but really it's just language changing over time).
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pookel posted:I love listening to old-time recordings, where they seem to have an accent (but really it's just language changing over time). I always liked the apocryphal (?) story that Daniel Day Lewis based his There Will Be Blood speaking cadence and accent from old recordings of John Huston.
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Here's a interview with the Second Office on the Titanic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzqJiowdwhA His accent's a joy to listen to and his role in the shipwreck is pretty crazy. quote:During the evacuation, Lightoller took charge of lowering the lifeboats on the port side of the boat deck. He helped to fill several lifeboats with passengers and launched them. Lightoller interpreted Smith's order for "the evacuation of women and children" as essentially "women and children only". As a result, Lightoller lowered lifeboats with empty seats if there were no women and children waiting to board.[8] He then got swept overboard when the ship went down and made his way to a capsized lifeboat quote:Lightoller climbed on the boat and took charge, calming and organising the survivors (numbering around thirty) on the overturned lifeboat. He led them in yelling in unison "Boat ahoy!" but with no success. During the night a swell arose and Lightoller taught the men to shift their weight with the swells to prevent the craft from being swamped. If not for this, they likely would have been thrown into the freezing water again. At his direction, the men kept this up for hours until they were finally rescued by another lifeboat. Lightoller was the last survivor taken on board the RMS Carpathia. Later on he had a fairly distinguished career with the Royal Navy in WW1 and retired to become a innkeeper, only to return to the sea in 1940 when he sailed his yacht to Dunkirk and helped with the evacuation there.
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Leviathan Song posted:Is in the realms of the unreal actually available to the general public somehow? I can't find any indication that even excerpts have been published. I can see why they didn't originally publish it in it's entirety but it seems pretty criminal not to create an ebook at this point. It's been on netflix before.
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Transistor Rhythm posted:It's been on netflix before. Also on YouTube, if this is the right one.
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Transistor Rhythm posted:It's been on netflix before. I think they mean the book.
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GIANT OUIJA BOARD posted:I think they mean the book. I did mean the book. Even the main book about it is about $300 on Amazon.
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Literally Kermit posted:There was a "tribute" to Syncro-Vox in "Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers" (1992) (skip to 6:39 for it) which left a strong impression on young me because what in the actual hell was I looking at here?! Similarly, one of the DVD special features for the Pixar movie The Incredibles was an obvious spoof of Clutch Cargo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JxsZEZPkYE E: It also has commentary by Craig T. Nelson and Samuel L. Jackson as their respective characters from the movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1R44MvXeEQw Doctor Bishop has a new favorite as of 02:31 on May 7, 2015 |
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Doctor Bishop posted:Similarly, one of the DVD special features for the Pixar movie The Incredibles was an obvious spoof of Clutch Cargo. That's loving awesome. The effect isn't nearly so bad when the actors intentionally overact! Cracked up at that closeup of Mr. Incredible saying that the ice bridge was the most amazing thing he ever seen built before his eyes. 
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Nckdictator posted:Here's a interview with the Second Office on the Titanic Lightholler was either a relative or a very close friend with my grandparents and great-grandparents. I got to spend the 50th anniversary of the Dunkirk landings on his yacht with his son and grandson- though I don't really remember much about it other than being tied to the mast for being rude. :P
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Literally Kermit posted:
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pretty soft girl posted:I saw this episode as a child and I actually wrote off my memory of it as being some bizarre fever dream of the sugar addled mind of an 8 year old, good to know that it does exist and is still unsettling looking I had the same thing but with Lidsville! For years I thought that there was no way such a thing would actually be a real TV show, that I must have dreamed it as a young child. NOPE. For those of you lucky enough to have escaped its scourge, Lidsville was a horrifying live-action children's show about giant anthropomorphic hats, some of which were evil and would try to harm hapless non-hat children. The Wikipedia article also contains the phrase "reclaim control of the androgynous Weenie." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidsville edit: "Unfortunately for Mark, he did not return home at the end." AUGHHHH.
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pretty soft girl posted:I saw this episode as a child and I actually wrote off my memory of it as being some bizarre fever dream of the sugar addled mind of an 8 year old, good to know that it does exist and is still unsettling looking Me too! This episode haunted me as a child. The fake Porky Pig at the end still creeps me out, I'm not sure what kid wouldn't be unsettled by that. Parasol Prophet has a new favorite as of 05:47 on May 7, 2015 |
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This has just reminded me of something that freaked me out as a child. Mulligrubs. No pictures in the wiki but GIS "Mulligrubs" for an idea on why it freaked me out.
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MonoAus posted:This has just reminded me of something that freaked me out as a child. Mulligrubs. Mulligrubs was some weird poo poo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WW1-N9Q5KA
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MonoAus posted:This has just reminded me of something that freaked me out as a child. Mulligrubs. Don't ever tune a modern TV to a dead channel. She might be watching.
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Synchro-vox and Clutch Cargo get a pass from me because the guy who invented it was trying to make a cartoon that his deaf kid could watch. The kid could read lips and was sad that cartoons didn't have legible mouth movements. Some other turd decided to make it as cheap as possible.
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Jack Gladney posted:Synchro-vox and Clutch Cargo get a pass from me because the guy who invented it was trying to make a cartoon that his deaf kid could watch. The kid could read lips and was sad that cartoons didn't have legible mouth movements.
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Jack Gladney posted:Synchro-vox and Clutch Cargo get a pass from me because the guy who invented it was trying to make a cartoon that his deaf kid could watch. The kid could read lips and was sad that cartoons didn't have legible mouth movements. Some other turd decided to make it as cheap as possible. That is extremely cool and makes perfect sense, but I can find no reference to it being a part of why Edwin Gillette created the Syncro-Vox medium. According to the Wikipedia article on Clutch Cargo, lowering production cost was the driving force: quote:To further cut costs, Gillette and special-effects man Scotty Tomany supplemented Syncro-Vox with other time- and money-saving tricks. Haas explained, "We are not making animated cartoons. We are photographing 'motorized movement' and—the biggest trick of all—combining it with live action. This enables us to produce film at about one-fifth what it costs Hanna and Barbera. Footage that Disney does for $250,000 we do for $18,000."[1] Also, thanks to this thread, I can now impress my friends when we watch SpongeBob by telling them that the pirate at the very beginning was done using the Syncro-Vox method. ...who am I kidding? I have no friends. The Mighty Moltres has a new favorite as of 16:55 on May 7, 2015 |
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The Endbringer posted:That is extremely cool and makes perfect sense, but I can find no reference to it being a part of why Edwin Gillette created the Syncro-Vox medium. It looks like a widely circulated claim with no clear source, just like most untrue stories too good to let go, sadly: http://legendsrumors.blogspot.com/2014/09/synchro-vox-developed-to-help-deaf.html?m=1
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Linked from the macro thread of all places, but it turns out Saddam Hussein hired a calligrapher to make a Qu'ran inked from the ol' president's blood: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Quran
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