Pha. I angered the headache gods and got saddled with a sonoffabitchin cranial malaise that lasted 18 hours. What to the ever. This morning I was watching the now classic stop-motion video by Noah K (and it’s tribute parody featuring The Simpsons). If you’re a neophyte like me, you may have not heard of  everyday, which is posted on Vimeo. The concept was that Noah took a photograph of himself every day for nearly six and half years and assembled them into a video montage of his life during the time between 2000 and 2006. The spare piano score by Carly Comando serves to add drama and import to the distilling of  six years of the man’s life into five minutes of changes. The idea is a good one and most people aren’t able to document their lives in such detail (while not revealing a lot of details). Admittedly, I found myself thinking absurd little things during the video (“Oh! He got a new apartment”). I’ll give you the Simpsonian version, but seek out the real one for yourself. Worth a look.http://www.vimeo.com/776824

Mir gefällt ja das Lied aus “Noah takes a photo of himself every day for 6 years.” sehr

Gibts auch als Simpsons-Version

Wie kann man heute nur noch ohne Internet leben? Hätte ich noch vor ein paar Jahren beispielsweise eine dieser reichlich vorhandenen Zitate in einer neuen Folge der Familie Gelbhaut aus Spring.field gesehen (Homer stürzt von einer Brücke und sieht sein Leben als Abfolge von Snapshots an sich vorüberziehen, unterlegt von intensiver Pianomusik), das mich vage an etwas erinnerte, was ich in anderer Form bereits einmal gesehen hatte, so hätte ich nur an Contra8 schreiben können mit der Bitte um Aufklärung oder es ganz schnell wieder vergessen.

Der moderne, netzgewohnte Single hingegen hat heute ja nichts besseres zu tun, als mit verschiedenen Stichworten bewappnet herumzusurfen, um schließlich und endlich vom Baum der Erkenntnis naschen zu dürfen.

Das möchte ich natürlich mit den 3 bis 4 Leuten teilen, die es nicht sowieso bereits kennen. Es wurde ein jutjub-Eintrag zitiert, in dem ein Mensch namens Noah über 6 Jahre lang täglich ein Foto von sich macht (pfff…Psycho) und daraus einen Clip bastelt. Mittlerweile gibt es genügend Nachahmer (Entwicklung bei einer Schwangeren, Bartwuchs zum zuschauen usw.), aber das faszinierendste daran ist für mich der Soundtrack:

Das Stück heißt „Everyday“ und wurde von einer jungen Autodidaktin namens Carly Comando aus Brooklyn angeblich extra aus Bewunderung für Noahs Clip komponiert. Seeehr schön, echt!

So, und damit ihr auch nachvollziehen könnt, von was der alte Mann hier ständig brabbelt:

http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=6B26asyGKDo

Enjoy!

Hypnotic video where a man takes a photo of himself everyday for six years.

January 11, 2000 – July 31, 2006. 2356 Days. A work in progress.

Original music by Carly Comando.

Esse video é da famosa chamada da tv FOX para os novos episódios do seriado animado OS SIMPSONS, a temporada 19.

Agora o que todo mundo quer saber: o nome da música de fundo do vídeo Longa Vida ao Deus Homer é Every Day.
A música é da novayorquina Carly Comando, que faz uma mistura de música clássica, happy hardcore e Punk. Confira o myspace dela e ouça na íntegra a música: http://www.myspace.com/carlycomando

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSCy7rbbzIY

Ĉi tiu movas miajn emociojn. Ĝi belas..

Gisteren kon je hier het filmpje everyday van Noah Kalina bekijken. Vandaag kwam ik te weten dat zijn toenmalig liefje ook mooi heeft verdiend aan de muziek bij het filmpje. Het is dan ook een geweldig goed nummer. Je kan het op haar myspace beluisteren.

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Noah Kalina’s idea made him famous.

But it made his ex-girlfriend rich.

The 28-year-old Brooklyn photographer produced a video that’s been watched nearly 8 million times on YouTube – and was featured on an episode of “The Simpsons.”

The idea was simple: Kalina strung about six years’ worth of digital daily self-portraits into a time-lapse video, set it to music and posted it on YouTube.

The reaction to the “Everyday” video was immediate, and Kalina became the media darling of the moment with hipsters and art aficionados.

But it was his ex, Carly Comando, who turned a profit from the viral vid by raking in royalties from the soundtrack.

Kalina began the self-portraits at age 19 – the year he bought his first digital camera. Along the way, he began dating Comando, an ex-high school classmate and music major at Fordham University.

His brainchild was turning 2,356 photos into a video of melancholic expressions and morphing hair. He asked Comando to write the music.

“I had the melody line in my head for a while, but I never did anything with it,” Comando said. “It was amazing because I sat down one day and just played it. … It was spooky.”

They posted the video on YouTube in August 2006, and Yahoo! made it a pick of the day. Two weeks later, Kalina was on “Good Morning America” and “CBS Evening News.”

“It was crazy,” Comando said. “Some museum [The Musée de l'Elysée in Lausanne] flew him to Switzerland for the installation of his video.”

Within three months, 3 million people watched the video. Kalina became a phenomenon, but Comando was invisible.

“At first, we would argue about whose contribution was more important,” Comando said. “In the beginning, it was all in good fun. I’d get all these e-mails about how great the video was, and Noah would get e-mails asking about the music.”

Early last year, VH1 asked Kalina to appear on its awards show in March, and Comando asked to be included.

“I really wanted to go,” she said. “I asked him to at least take some of my CDs and give them to the VH1 people – just leave them in the bathroom, even. That’s where the relationship started to go wrong.”

By this summer, Kalina’s 15 minutes of fame were waning, but Comando was about to strike it rich: Months earlier, she had copyrighted her song, and a friend posted it on iTunes.

“Then I got an e-mail from a German bank,” she said. “The woman wanted to pay like $20,000 for my music, so I started talking to lawyers,” she said.

Comando licensed her song for commercials. Movie directors have called. She sells her song on iTunes and the sheet music on MySpace. Her big moment came Dec. 17 when “The Simpsons” used it in a Homer Simpson parody of the video.

Comando and Kalina are no longer together, but her parents are more supportive of her dream of a music career.

“When they saw the kind of money people were offering me for my song, they became way more tolerant,” Comando said with a satisfied laugh.