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Nice 'Holy Mountain' vibes in the promo video. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holy_Mountain_(1973_film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holy_Mountain_(197
by b1n 2y ago
Nice 'Holy Mountain' vibes in the promo video.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holy_Mountain_(1973_film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holy_Mountain_(1973_film)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdXGhsAynGI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdXGhsAynGI
- mr_briggs 2y agoWatching The Holy Mountain, I felt like my life had been divided in 2 - that which came before watching it, and that which came after. Sure is an experience, and I certainly can't unsee a lot of it.
- bembo 2y agoWatched it with some friends on shrooms for the first time. Incredible. All the movies we watched after it that night felt bland and uninteresting.
- zeristor 2y agoMediaeval Cosplay?
- bbor 2y agoSomeone please help this little skeptic: is that video real, or Midjourney? The short cuts make me think Midjourney, but then they have a shot with their product in it.
- dhritzkiv 2y agoIt's certainly real. What was it about the video that made you think it's generative? That it's surrealistic?
- bbor 2y agoWell yeah, mostly that it has a ton of actors and setpieces (and a horse!) for what AFAICT is a joke product. I mean, it's perhaps not a joke, but... surely anyone who actually wanted to be a touring musician with this kind of music would just load up sounds onto a regular board? Is "musicians who don't even know the genre they'll use professionally yet" a valid market in the first place? And it consists of short, highly composed shots, which is how non-professional (read: non-Sora) AI videos are these days. They create the individual images then animate them into 2-4 second clips with slight, predictable movement.
- d1sxeyes 2y agoTeenage Engineering are well known for their quirky instruments, I don’t think this is a joke. Musicians are a funny bunch, just because there’s a simple way of doing something doesn’t mean that that’s what they’ll do.
- objclxt 2y ago> Is "musicians who don't even know the genre they'll use professionally yet" a valid market in the first place? That's not really Teenage Engineering's primary market, in the same way Rolex's primary market isn't "people who need to tell the time". Both T.E and Rolex products do their jobs really well, but the people buying them are buying more for the aesthetic than the function. Teenage Engineering are primarily a design boutique, although musicians do use their products their main audience are collectors / audiophiles / graphic designers going through a mid-life crisis.
- vundercind 2y agoI think their main market is people who definitely won’t use the product they can convince to think “I will definitely use this product”. (This one came pretty close to getting me)
- SonOfLilit 2y agoI own an OP-1, I regularly take it on flights then never use it...
- gffrd 2y ago> people who definitely won’t use the product they can convince to think “I will definitely use this product”. Not unlike the iPad market.
- zamadatix 2y agoThere are two big sides to the iPad market, the "spend more than >$1000 for a designer/pro tool" side and the "it's just a good <$500 tablet" side. The latter probably gets 5x-10x the amount of use per purchase, especially by younger audiences.
- spencerflem 2y agoThe video is 11 years old fwiw
- bbor 2y agoWhich video is 11 years old...? The release video for this project that seems to be copyrighted 2024? This is the most baffling response I could've received, so I'm quite curious!
- Nition 2y agoThey thought you were referring to the Holy Mountain movie clip from YouTube that the parent comment shared. When you said "that video", it was ambiguous whether "that" referred to the promo video or the one the comment shared. It seemed fairly clear to me that you'd be asking an AI question about the 2024 promo video and not the one from 1973, but it evidently wasn't clear enough as multiple people have assumed the latter. Apparently I'm the official translator for both sides of this conversation.
- Nition 2y agoI assume they're asking about the video from the Teenage Engineering link (which is not AI, but is at least new content).
- defrost 2y agoWelcome to Alejandro Jodorowsky, he's like AI off the chain with no guard rails but it's 1974 and the home PC doesn't yet exist.
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- darepublic 2y agoalso the wicker man: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBS5qeqHDGI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBS5qeqHDGI
- fredoliveira 2y agoOr Midsommar, which is quite similar.
- jbaiter 2y agoThe horse in the circle of fire is also a quote from Phillipe Garrel's "La Cicatrice Intérieure", a rather obscure surrealist film from the 70s (starring and scored by Nico/Christa Päffgen!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JYiADaKJ3A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JYiADaKJ3A
- meiuqer 2y agoGood shout, I was thinking of The color of Pomegranates: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Color_of_Pomegranates https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Color_of_Pomegranates https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPtxS1c-fGA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPtxS1c-fGA
- sssilver 2y agoThe last thing I was expecting during my daily Hacker News read was bumping into a Parajanov reference. Incredible.
- bookofjoe 2y agoIt's the internet equivalent of Forrest Gump's box of chocolates.
- xnx 2y agoWhoa. I didn't realize the whole movie was on YouTube! Randomly skipped to https://youtu.be/aPtxS1c-fGA?t=1187 https://youtu.be/aPtxS1c-fGA?t=1187 which contains a tossed silver ball which Teenage Engineering seem to be quoting almost verbatim in their video.
- mdumic 2y agoAlso, Dreams (Kurosawa) - Fox Wedding scene
- type0 2y agohttps://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/13/archives/they-kill-animals-and-they-call-it-art-more-and-more-directors-are.html https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/13/archives/they-kill-animal...
- yzzyx 2y agoOne of my all time favorite movies! And definitely agreed, I'd be curious to know if there was any direct inspiration