Well, we are currently so nicely in the mood of "complete" and "all", why not add something else "complete" to it. I hope at least that it is complete.
I made some remarks already during a previous post where I also highlighted the Dytec remix video, which should have given you some clues about what will come. Yep, a list of all Dytec Crack Intros with links to the video recording of it.
I only found four Amiga intros, but then I think that Dynamic Technologies was never really active there. I need to check that with Fatman. I found 7 Cracktros (including one beta) for the IBM PC, for MS DOS and a whopping 26 intros for the Commodore 64.
If there is any intro missing, please let me know. I hate to have an incomplete "complete list" of things hehe. Okay, here is the list of all the Cracktros. Click on the thumbnail image to get to the video version at YouTube.
Something entirely different.... I stumbled across this information, which was burried in tons of frames and other search engine unfriendly code to make it hard to impossible to find, a list of ALL (yes, you heart right, ALL) Beatles songs plus URLs to lyrics and videos of the song (up to five different versions for each song) on YouTube.
I spent already a lot of time on formating the list and make it post ready that I will use a short cut for the introduction and copy parts of the Wikipedia article about the Beatles, the brits John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr with their infamous mop-tops. :)
"The Beatles were a pop and rock group from Liverpool, England. The band are recognised for leading the mid-1960s musical "British Invasion" into the United States. Although their initial musical style was rooted in 1950s rock and roll and homegrown skiffle, the group explored genres ranging from Tin Pan Alley to psychedelic rock. Their clothes, styles, and statements made them trend-setters, while their growing social awareness saw their influence extend into the social and cultural revolutions of the 1960s.
The Beatles are one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed bands in the history of popular music. In the United Kingdom, The Beatles released more than 40 different singles, albums, and EPs that reached number one. This commercial success was repeated in many other countries; their record company, EMI, estimated that by 1985 they had sold over one billion records worldwide. According to the Recording Industry Association of America, The Beatles are the best-selling musical act of all time in the United States.
In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked The Beatles #1 on its list of 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. According to that same magazine, The Beatles' innovative music and cultural impact helped define the 1960s, and their influence on pop culture is still evident today."
Studio albums
Please Please Me (Parlophone, 1963)
With the Beatles (Parlophone, 1963)
A Hard Day's Night (Parlophone, 1964)
Beatles for Sale (Parlophone, 1964)
Help! (Parlophone, 1965)
Rubber Soul (Parlophone, 1965)
Revolver (Parlophone, 1966)
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Parlophone, 1967)
Magical Mystery Tour (U.S. only. Released as a Double EP in the UK) (Capitol, 1967)
If you think that I did not write and do much at my blog then you are mistaken. Instead of writing some new posts I did update some existing ones instead.
My Cirque du Soleil Primer was extensively expanded for example. I did learn a lot about the Cirque during the past few weeks and had contact with several people like me who are Cirque du Soleil fans like me (some even more crazy than I am, can you believe that?! :) )
I submit the primer to Digg.com myself, which is never such a splendit idea, but I thought "what the heck." and just did it. Nobody else seems to agree with me that it is actually great content. I hope that I am not wrong about this and would appreciate, if you could show me, if you like it by adding a comment to this post or at the primer itself and/or Digg the Primer post, if you have a Digg.com user account.
I also worked on more video content. I don't write a post here at my blog for every video that I upload to my two YouTube accounts and elsewhere on the Internet. Here you only get some of the highlights :).
If you like what I publish, I suggest to subscribe to my channel(s) directly after you created your own account at the video sharing website.
I upload all my videos to either my SACRELEASES channel or my CARSTENSVLOGCirqueDuSoleilGuru channel on YouTube.com. You can find links to the profiles and feeds at other video sharing websites on this page, among the links to other social networks and webmaster forums where I have an account.
I do not publish ALL of my videos to the other online video sites. I try as much as I can, but there are several problems that make this task not as easy as I would like to plus some videos are taken down (or not up in the first place) by some of the sites. I don't want to get into this debate about those problems here and now. I plan to deal with the subject in great detail one other day and at another blog.
Here is one video that I recently published and believe to be worthwhile to write about here at my blog. It contains Hoola Hoops circus performaces by various performers, some from Cirque du Soleil and others who are not involved with the Cirque at all. I edited it together from over a dozen individual video sources, which I also re-edited and cut prior putting them together again for this video.
The background music is the song "ANSI" by Logic Bomb from the DefCon 15 (Hacker Conference) Sampler "Extra Nanosecond" mixed by DJ Shadowvex, where I created the cover for last year. The song does not only have a cool name (ANSI hehe), but also fits the visuals very nicely.
I hope you like and enjoy the video. Just as a heads up. I did spend some time on the legacy of Dytec (Dynamic Technologies).
I created a tribute video, which is a remix of a lot of things about the German games cracking group where I had the pleasure to be its leader for the PC section for a while. There is more to come, so keep your eyes open :)
This video was a heck of a lot of work and consists of over 60 individual pieces of video, audio and images. The inspiration came from the dancing Lemmings animation and the background music by Pitty/Dytec.
This was actually the beta for a Dytec PC Intro/Demo project, which was never finished and never released. The Lemmings that dance to the techno beats of Pitty's oldskool Amiga Pro-Tracker module titled "Pitty in Concert" were very cool and funny and it is sad that nothing of it was released back in those old days. I hope that my tribute video will make up for this oversight a little bit.
I produced a number of new Cirque du Soleil videos in the past few weeks, but did not get around until now to write another post.
I found some parts of the special Cirque performance titled "Reflections in Blue" (Réflexions de bleu), which was performed as part of the opening ceremonies for the XI. World Aquatics Championships FINA in Montreal, Canada on June 15, 2005.
I found recordings of two of the seven or eight parts (I am not sure about the actual number), the acts "The Mermaid" (La sirène) with Bolormaa Zorigtkhuyag that is similar to the water bowl contortion act in the Las Vegas Cirque show “Zumanity” and the act titled "Midnight Dancer" (Danseur de la nuit) with Anatoly Zalievsky, a very acrobatic act to the timeless music by Yanni.
Here are some interesting quick stats for this one-time performance:
The venue was three times the size of the KÀ theatre.
The swimming pool was made to look like the sea by lining it with a giant blue sheet that covered the bottom and the perimeter of the pool.
The projection screen at the back of the pool was 18 m (60') wide by 7 m (24') tall.
Over 200 volunteer performers took part in the show.
Three quarters of the participants were women.
The performers ranged in age from under 10 years old to over 50 years old.
Twenty-three cameras were used to shoot the performance for television.
Spectators played a role in the show by launching paper birds.
For the bungee (flying fish) act, a 53-metre (175-foot) crane extended out over the basin.
Some of the music for the show was taken from We Reinvent the Circus, Nouvelle Expérience, Alegría, La Nouba and "O".
Some Credits for the Creators and Featured Performers:
Director: Guy Caron and Fernand Rainville
Creator and Director of Creation: Lyn Heward
Costume Designer: François Barbeau
Set Designer: Jean-François Bouchard
Acrobatic Rigging Designer: Jacque Paquin
Music Composers: René Dupéré, Benoît Jutras, Violaine Corradi, Martin Lord Ferguson, Ella, Créations Méandres
Musical Directors: Martin Lord Ferguson and Ella
Choerographers: Denise Sauvé, Debbie Brown and Catherine Archambault
Projections Designer: Erick Villeneuve
Lighting Designer: Alain Lortie
Puppeteer: Michael Curry
Makeup Designer: Eleni Uarnis
Props Designer: Patricia Ruel
Featured performers : Sébastien Allard, Sam Alvarez, Zorigtkhuyag Bolormaa, Eliane Bonin, Mason Davis, Dessy Di Lauro, Sébastien Duval, Chantale Gallant, Akian Gaudette, Manon Gauthier, Charlyne Guay, Reda Guérinik, Ronnie le Grand, Isabelle Michon-Campbell, Isabela Moraes, Carolina Moraes, Patrick Paquette, Didier Pasquette, Laurence Racine-Choinière, Karl Sanft, Stéphane Verdie, Anatoly Zalievsky
I am currently searching for video recordings of the missing parts to create a video with the whole performance as I did in the past for several other special event performances by the Cirque. If you happen to know anybody who has a recording, please let me know.
Another Special Performance
I also found some snippets of the Cirque’s special performance on August 28, 2007 for the opening ceremony of the Venetian Macao Resort Hotel in Macau, China by the Las Vegas Sands Corporation (Sheldon Adelson), which will be the home of a new Cirque show later this year.
The Grand Opening for this new Cirque Du Soleil with the working title "Cosmos" or “Macau I” is scheduled for August 29, 2008. Here is an one minute clip of the performance.
Cirque du Soleil's tribute to The Beatles "A Day In The Life" and Carol Wood and Timmy Mitchum (from "Across the Universe") performed "Let It Be" at the 50th Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California on February 10th, 2008.
The performance includes music and artists from the popular Cirque du Soleil show The Beatles "Love", which is currently running at the Mirage Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. You can see the whole video recording of the performance here.
And last but not least the Guinness World Record™ for the Highest Circus Act ever performed.
Natasha Patterson, Julie Bergez and Dasha Sovik, the tree teenage contortion artist of Cirque du Soleil's latest touring show "Kooza" set in September, 2007 a new Guinness World Record for the Highest Circus Act ever performed. I created a special video for that, which includes the performance by the three girls.
That's it for now, enough videos already. Four videos might cause already a problem for the browser of one or the other reader of this post. Make sure that you check out my fresh updated Cirque du Soleil Primer with even more videos and other goodies.
Posted on: 5/26/2008 05:10:00 PM
