[Moderator Note: I'm promoting this to the news since this is pretty awesome. Swing for science! Only 4 weeks to submit your video for this cool project. Thanks for sharing this Capt Morgan.]
What is Project Q?
Are you a swing dancer? Do you like
science? Would you like to use your
dance powers to help explain quantum
physics?
The goal of Project Q is to bring
Lindy Hoppers from around the globe to
illustrate, in a visual way, the power
behind future technologies that are
based on the laws of quantum
mechanics. To pull this off we need
your help.
The idea is to have different scenes
from around the world film themselves
dancing a short routine inspired by
Frankie’s lindy chorus (see the video
to the right). The footage will be
edited together (similar to what was
done for the Frankie 95 Global Shim
Sham) and incorporated into a live
performance at a high profile event
taking place in the spring.
This will be an excellent opportunity
to showcase Lindy Hop to a large
international audience. Get Involved
We would love to have as many dancers
as possible from around the world to
participate. Here is what you can do
to help out:
Download the music and get as many friends together as possible to learn
the routine.
Film yourselves performing the routine. Use a tripod if possible and
make sure the audio can be heard on
the video.
Upload the video to Youtube, Vimeo, Dropbox, or some other place
that we can download the original file
from. If it is Youtube, post your
video as a reply to the original demo
routine. Send us a message or post in
the comments below the URL to the
orignal video.
All videos should be submitted by
March 1st, 2012.
Originally posted Wednesday, February 1, 2012 (4 months ago)
Edited on Wednesday, February 1, 2012 1:57 pm (4 months ago)
Unfortunately, the audio for this video is missing. (I checked it on YouTube using two different browsers). Possibly because of a copyright issue involving the song used in the sound track.
If there is a clean recording of just the narration (or this is just a technical glitch that can be fixed by just uploading the video again) - it would be nice to see the information contained in this video.
Otherwise, unfortunately, the video might have to be shot again with audio which is unlikely to generate a complaint to YouTube - perhaps some performance of an original composition by a "lindy community friendly" band or artist.
"A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having" - V
Just tried it again to see if I could get audio this time. Here's what I got:
Black screen with text which read "An error occurred. Please try again later."
Went to YouTube and found the movie there and played it directly. No sound.
Played another movie listed on the same page (uploaded by someone else) and the sound played just fine.
Found another movie from Project Q called "Inspiration behind Toy Story 3's Woody and Jessie dance short" uploaded to YouTube from their blog site. Sound worked just fine.
Whatever the issue is causing "some people get sound, others don't" isn't a general YouTube or flash movie issue. Or, apparently, something that affects all Project Q videos. It's specific to this one movie.
Don't know what the issue is - there's no technical specifications required information available for this movie. I have a "less than 6 month's old" Gateway PC running Windows 7, Flash updated to the latest version, QT updated to the latest version, plus current version of Windows Media Player updated periodically by Windows automatic updates, and have had no problems playing sound from any other YouTube video or QT, "Flash Video", or AVI flicks from any other site.
Any suggestions?
"A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having" - V
An interesting suggestion ... but I often call up YouTube videos of movie clips and soundies captured from film with a mono optical track without having this problem. Could having a Realtek High Definition Audio board (factory installed on my Gateway)have anything to do with a situation where Youtube clips from old movies and soundies play with audio but the soundtrack in this particular video is muted?
"A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having" - V
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Unfortunately, the audio for this video is missing. (I checked it on YouTube using two different browsers). Possibly because of a copyright issue involving the song used in the sound track.
If there is a clean recording of just the narration (or this is just a technical glitch that can be fixed by just uploading the video again) - it would be nice to see the information contained in this video.
Otherwise, unfortunately, the video might have to be shot again with audio which is unlikely to generate a complaint to YouTube - perhaps some performance of an original composition by a "lindy community friendly" band or artist.
"A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having" - V
(The audio works just fine for me)
This is pretty awesome!
Why It Took Me 13 Years to Learn the Big Apple • My hiphop crew Freeplay performing at the Dance-a-Rama (video).
Just tried it again to see if I could get audio this time. Here's what I got:
Black screen with text which read "An error occurred. Please try again later."
Went to YouTube and found the movie there and played it directly. No sound.
Played another movie listed on the same page (uploaded by someone else) and the sound played just fine.
Found another movie from Project Q called "Inspiration behind Toy Story 3's Woody and Jessie dance short" uploaded to YouTube from their blog site. Sound worked just fine.
Whatever the issue is causing "some people get sound, others don't" isn't a general YouTube or flash movie issue. Or, apparently, something that affects all Project Q videos. It's specific to this one movie.
Don't know what the issue is - there's no technical specifications required information available for this movie. I have a "less than 6 month's old" Gateway PC running Windows 7, Flash updated to the latest version, QT updated to the latest version, plus current version of Windows Media Player updated periodically by Windows automatic updates, and have had no problems playing sound from any other YouTube video or QT, "Flash Video", or AVI flicks from any other site.
Any suggestions?
"A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having" - V
The audio is in mono. Maybe that is causing it not to play the audio for you?
Why It Took Me 13 Years to Learn the Big Apple • My hiphop crew Freeplay performing at the Dance-a-Rama (video).
An interesting suggestion ... but I often call up YouTube videos of movie clips and soundies captured from film with a mono optical track without having this problem. Could having a Realtek High Definition Audio board (factory installed on my Gateway)have anything to do with a situation where Youtube clips from old movies and soundies play with audio but the soundtrack in this particular video is muted?
"A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having" - V
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