My Life

This is a beautiful and touching animation of a woman’s life, by Junichi Yamamoto, a freelance video director and artist.

(YouTube link)

The machine translation of the video description from Japanese made little sense, but I believe this is an ad for a job placement service. -via Digg

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ugly!

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Beautiful!

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Those trombones are so rusty.

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That reminds me of the snakes in beatlejuice.

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That's Kevin Bacon's trombone from Tremors.

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Make sure you see the linked "making trombones" video. Besides being a cheesy hype commercial for Yamaha, it nonetheless shows you the whole process of building a trombone which I found pretty neat.

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Yup, Beetlejuice's trombone alright.

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The trombone is rather interesting in that it's one of the few instruments that has gone almost unchanged for in about 500 years. The renaissance instrument (usually called a sackbut to distinguish it from the modern version) has a slightly narrower bore, especially near the bell, and the mouthpiece is shaped a bit differently, but it's essentially the same instrument. The other instruments that the sackbut typically played with at the time, the shawm, cornett, serpent, kortholt, curtal, have entirely disappeared.

Anyone in Dallas interested in seeing and hearing the renaissance sackbut in action should drop by Emanuel Lutheran Church in Dallas next sunday: http://www.emanueldallas.org/files/concert.pdf

I'll be playing on viola da gamba, recorder and crumhorn there.