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Post by GoodOldDreams on Jun 22, 2007 16:29:13 GMT -5
Ned Nickerson has a real knack for taking some of the more melancholic Carpenters songs and pairing them with very artistic, reflective imagery to create moody videos on YouTube, such as "Trying to Get the Feeling Again" and "Road Ode." Here are his videos done recently for "Solitaire" and a totally different treatment for "Crystal Lullaby": Solitaire www.youtube.com/watch?v=9POzHeXJao8&sdig=1Crystal Lullaby www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Mvt6AgRG5s |
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Post by wisejester7 on Jun 22, 2007 19:32:13 GMT -5
Ned Nickerson does some fine work. I've seen other Carpenters links he has put on YouTube, but these 2 were new to me. Thanks Dreams!
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Post by Rick Henry on Jun 23, 2007 1:27:38 GMT -5
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Post by smoothie2 on Jun 23, 2007 13:10:16 GMT -5
 ???Dreams, thanks for the info. and links...love 'em...
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Post by NedNickerson on Aug 28, 2007 10:33:40 GMT -5
I'm glad to see the positive comments about Solitaire and Crystal Lullaby... Reading through various posts, it's like Christmas morning, reading what other fans of the Carpenters have to say about my videos on YouTube.... I'm just glad everyone enjoys what I've put together...
I wasn't totally satisfied with Solitaire, but couldn't figure out what else to do with it... I thought about removing it, but when I started reading some of the nice comments left by viewers on the video, I decided to leave it alone...
As for Crystal Lullaby, I couldn't think of anything to use, and for awhile, I thought about using scenes from the Wizard of Oz for the video, then I found a site that had over 100 drawings from a 19th century children's magazine that someone had scanned and posted... That video was fun to put together. The opening and closing photos of the snowglobe originally had a blue Statue of Liberty in it, and I remember thinking, "What an odd thing to put in a snowglobe!" I edited out the Statue of Liberty and used the photo at the beginning and end of the video. It wasn't until I viewed the completed video on YouTube, that I realized that the Twin Towers was also in the snowglobe... I hadn't even seen it at all while I was making the video... I decided to leave it alone, since I think it's a nice way to show the striking contrast between "the Land of Make-Believe" and the real world...
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Post by wisejester7 on Aug 28, 2007 12:26:51 GMT -5
The Crystal Lullaby video is very good. I think you have done a fine job of capturing the mood of the song.
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