On Tuesday 02 December 2008 00:29:36 Ken Restivo wrote: > On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 12:14:00AM -0500, frank pirrone wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Ken Restivo wrote: > > > As an expeirment, over a year ago, I plugged my fretless guitar into > > > my FastTrack Pro USB interface, loaded up Ardour on my laptop, set up > > > a cheap digital camera to film, and simultaneously filmed and > > > recorded myself playing some blues. It was an experiment to see how > > > easy it would be to sync the Ardour-recorded audio up with the video, > > > using Avidemux on Linux. Worked great and was quite simple to do. I > > > posted the results here: > > > > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZuE2LWLXMc > > > > > > And, over the past year, that cheesy little off-hand experiment has > > > been by far the most successful thing I've done musically *in my > > > entire life*. > > > > > > 16,473 views so far-- more than any music I've ever made. I'm > > > baffled. I have no idea why such a simple, unremarkable, and almost > > > cliche'ed thing would have become so popular, but nonetheless it is, > > > in defiance of all rationality. > > > > > > -ken > > > > I dunno, Ken. Greater departure from conventional than the groovy > > funkalicious stuff you've done on keyboard/bass? > > > > Blue LEDs could have been Herbie Hancock playing, but for as > > complimentary as that observation may be, folks have heard stuff like > > that before. > > Yeah, but that's my point. > > Blues is as old as the hills, and quite possibly ten times as common. There > are great blues guitarists within hailing distance of practically everyone. > > Why anyone-- let alone 16,000 people-- would have wanted to hear me play > blues, is a mystery to me. It's just not that many people on the youtube scale of things. (I still think it might be fun for Packet In to try for a youtube hit...) Over 7,000 wanted to see my and my paper plane take on a UFO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnmzWrGoNrM and over 23,000 wanted to see me make a paper plane: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ls1QealrmLk Mind you, I understand your puzzleation as I too can't figure why the popularities rank as they do for my stuff. > > -ken all the best, drew _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user