12.4.11 Adam Treasures

Cassie ... a little more info on the iPad ... the short answer is: If the video was made with Flash, the iPad can't read it.

The longer answer (from a non-expert semi-geek) is: It is sort of a power struggle between Apple and Adobe ... Adobe uses a propriety language called Flash to make animations and videos, but it has never worked really well on Macs and Adobe hasn't been able and/or willing to fix the problems. So Steve Jobs (RIP) threw Applle's weight to HTML5, which is an advanced language that many websites are moving to, including YouTube. By refusing to put the capability to read Flash on the iPad, he felt he could accelerate the movement to HTML5.

I'm not aware of any third-party software that will read Flash on the iPad; that doesn't mean there isn't any, just that I'm not aware of any. But I love my iPad so much I am willing to accept the "no Flash" inconvenience. If it is something I REALLY want to see, I make a note of the page and go back to it when I am at the computer. If it is a YouTube I want to put on my iPad, I download to my computer and convert it to iPad format with a free program called HandBrake.

Hope this helps ... PM me if you have more questions about your iPad.

Deck the balls it was called, have it on my computer but can't find the youtube link :(

ETA: The video is now marked as private.

That is really amazing. He totally embodies for me some of what is so fascinating about electronic music. Almost all the music I listen to today is delivered and processed in an electronic form and to me it seems like for certain genres of electronic music like dubstep, the medium IS the message, and this chopping, processing, static, forward/reverse replay machine noise is brought to the forefront instead of being the sometimes invisible support to the voice and more traditional instruments. In some ways, it's very honest.

None of us (i think) has heard Adam sing unmiked for example, even if we were in the same room as him. Almost all of our experiences with music are mediated by machines, whether someone edits out every static fuzz and adjusts wobbly pitch, or adds room tone and reverb (watching Adam play with reverb at the end of some of his acoustic WWL's never got old for me).

So this guy turns his body into a machine too, with muscle isolations, slo-mo that looks like it borrows from creative video editing, reverse and forward, freeze frames, strobe like animation and image/body distortions. The end result is that we are watching a real time recording of a person who looks like they are in a digitally manipulated video purely based on their movements and posture.

I for one, welcome our new cyborg overlords

butterfly Love your avi and YAY for Bertlandia!!