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Sesame Street Pinball Number Count [video]
- notamy 3y agoA related video I saw recently: https://youtu.be/TMtGImlEmu0?si=hXBBVi19WZBg_KYI https://youtu.be/TMtGImlEmu0?si=hXBBVi19WZBg_KYI > This song teaches counting but is INSANELY hard to count It goes into the theory of how the song works; to me as a layperson it was fairly educational.
- dylan604 3y agoThis guy has so much (too much?) youtube energy. It's exhausting. Do people act like this in person, or is it solely their youtube persona? what makes this silent movie over acting level of over the top something that is such a thing on youtube?
- IndySun 3y ago> (too much?) Yes. Coming across whilst browsing, or being recommended, anyone that talks 'like this' (overacted, yes, overreacting too), plus is edited so frenetically, is a turn off. The talk is deliberately longer than it needs to be. Feels like being doorstepped.
- petercooper 3y agoThere's an adage in producing video or being on TV that you need to act 2x "more" than your usual self to appear mildly engaging due to the limits of the medium. Some people go a bit further than that, but the idea of being far more intense and full-on than you would ever be in real life is pretty standard in modern video production. Makeup, lighting, and other factors will often be dialled up too. I've seen plenty of shy, geeky folks who've become YouTube famous talk about the necessity to do this as they progressed. You can see it for yourself, too, if you find a successful channel and go back to the oldest videos. The energy and style of talking will ramp up over time. Quite few folks will talk, act, and look entirely as they might naturally.
- dylan604 3y agoThis is actually not the case in credible acting class. No acting teacher will tell you to act like a buffoon for the sake of being engaging unless you're trying to be a children's programming buffoon. Even then, if you look at what's popular for longer than a hot minute in children's programming, the people don't act like that. The people on TV that act like that are usually trying to sell you something. People believing "over the top == good" probably grew up liking JarJar Binks.
- petercooper 3y agoThis is more an idea around presenting than acting, but I wasn't talking about being a buffoon, as such, but using more energy to overcome the limitations of the medium and to, ironically, appear more "normal" on screen. If you watch a lot of popular YouTubers' early vs later videos, you can see it in effect. It's common to see radical developments in elocution, projection, and energy from their natural state, and it's nearly always for the better.
- dylan604 3y agoIf you think this doesn't make them look like a buffoon, then you are much more generous than I. "always for the better" that's definitely a matter of opinion, and I'm not buying it. it's just another in the long list of reasons why i don't spend a lot of time watching these types of "creators"
- seabass-labrax 3y agoI don't think that it's the energy of the acting that's jarring. I think it's the frequency of the cuts. This could be to cover up mistakes in diction (you only need to remember less than a few seconds of your lines at a time!) or just to hold the viewers attention with unnatural movements. One example of what you describe is GreatScott, a videomaker covering DIY electronics. He has definitely developed a more intense style, but he still gets through a paragraph of his lines without a cut. He doesn't need to turn his image upside-down to be engaging.
- usea 3y agoIt's a youtube persona. One of the most effective ways to increase your chances of success in modern media is to be loud and emotive. It's way past trend phase and is now endemic on all platforms among content creators who hope to have any younger viewers.
- dylan604 3y agoMy concern is that people will actually start acting this way in person every day. I've known a few people that are larger than life over the top whenever they do anything, but they luckily have been rare. These type of people would definitely make me refuse to RTO if my coworkers were like this.
- jacquesm 3y agoWait until you hear about Blippi...
- pkdpic 3y agoGeorge Lucas (half a century ago): “Faster, more intense!”
- milesvp 3y agoFor the record. I get like this when I'm really geeking out over something. I also know that I can be exhausting to listen to when I'm like this, and try to tone it down depending on my audience. Though, if I was a youtube personality I would probably try to lean into it slightly.
- j4yav 3y agoIt's a YouTube thing. I think it started with videos for young children, then those kids grew up and wanted adult content with the same kind of energy
- smrq 3y agoWarning: I saw this video three days ago and I had this damn song playing in my head even before I saw this link today. It'll never leave. (It's a great song, at least...)
- chris_st 3y agoThat song has been living rent-free in my head since 1977.
- xpe 3y agoWhy should I go watch this on YouTube? What is the angle that’s interesting?
- dylan604 3y agoSince you're not going to watch it, I'll tell you it's about the 12 seconds left on the timer before the bomb goes off, but the Bert & Ernie buddy cop team comes in and disarms the bomb at 1 second, and the older buddy cop says "I'm too old for this" and something about only having two weeks left before his pension.
- kolanos 3y agoIf you grew up in the 70's or 80's it is nostalgia porn.
- madcaptenor 3y agoYes but it makes me mad that Sesame Street is a shadow of what it used to be, and (HBO) Max doesn’t have the old ones to show to my kids.
- bluesounddirect 3y agoSesame Street changed in the early 2000’s . They started to invest in digital animation, the issue I had with it was too much energy was put into the production of the medium and not enough into the quality of the content . The last years of pbs before it went to hbo were odd , but my kids aged out of it then too . But good memories none the less .
- esaym 3y agoTorrent.
- xpe 3y agoTo phrase my question another way: why is this on-topic? > On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
- JKCalhoun 3y agoWut? The length of the video is 12:12.
- jayknight 3y agoThere are 11 of them all strung together 2-12 each got their own segment with a different solo section.
- dylan604 3y agoAll I needed was the title, and could immediately hear the tune in my head. This is one of those videos that I turn to as evidence on how we were being groomed to be trippy little stoner kids. Oh, and all of the Sid&Marty Krofft shows too.
- PDTao5Q2TMaTp7U 3y agoThats the Pointer Sisters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinball_Number_Count https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinball_Number_Count on vocals there.
- dehrmann 3y ago> The song employs complex rhythms, changing time signatures frequently between 4/4, 3/4 and 5/4 during the opening and closing segments, around a rhythmically straightforward 4/4 middle improvisation section. I was trying to count the beats, and it wasn't going well. That explains why.
- halfcat 3y agoAlways liked Pentatonix rendition on Sesame Street https://youtu.be/0b-v-wMR69k https://youtu.be/0b-v-wMR69k
- throw0101b 3y agoSomewhat related, but their "Geometry of Circles" was written by Philip Glass: * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JWwOzEDGss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JWwOzEDGss * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9467zZV0Lc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9467zZV0Lc * https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Geometry_of_Circles https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Geometry_of_Circles
- pierrec 3y agoThat's amazing and I'm now wondering if it influenced the demoscene. In fact I'm specifically thinking of "Intrinsic Gravity" by Still, which has fairly similar concepts going on, especially at the end. It's also one of the best executable demos I've ever seen. https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=64756 https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=64756 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZxPhDC-r3w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZxPhDC-r3w
- quickthrowman 3y agoVenetian Snares did a breakcore remix of this song around 20 years ago, released on the Infolepsy EP in 2004: https://youtu.be/AqN53CBb9to?si=wzHFA06T6N-6fxiV https://youtu.be/AqN53CBb9to?si=wzHFA06T6N-6fxiV
- ianbicking 3y agoI loved the ramps and movement of this video as a kid... and the mysterious and abrupt holes that apparently send the ball to one of many levels of this strange contraption/world. I got the same feelings with Commander Mark and The Secret City, the PBS drawing show: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_City https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_City (also on YouTube, though the video quality is disappointing)
- wodenokoto 3y agoLink links to a better version at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC7l3V1nhWc&t=0s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC7l3V1nhWc&t=0s Consider updating the link.
- drivers99 3y agoMuch better. Especially the aspect ratio.
- dylan604 3y agoI'm actually surprised that someone paid to have the SD source clean up and uprezed to HD. Must have been a pretty clean SD source, maybe some 1" that was only used a couple of times and definitely not someone's broadcast tape.
- kencausey 3y agoI'm just guessing but it seems highly likely that the original production was recorded to film and not to tape. Given access to the original film would make it easy to transfer at a higher quality than the original broadcast.
- drblast 3y agoI never realized the extent to which The Children's Television Workshop must have been fueled by psychedelics. But now Big Bird is making a whole lot more sense.
- jahnu 3y agoI absolutely adored the psychedelic stylings of the pinball number count as a kid and still do. The kids tv stuff from that era even in conservative Ireland was well weird and funky. Check out the into to this mainstay of children’s tv I grew up with: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6hKsyebZUrA https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6hKsyebZUrA Tell me they weren’t dropping acid when they came up with that!
- dylan604 3y agoAnd Big Bird's imaginary friend was always high a kite. "Heeeeyyyy Biiirrrrrrrd". At least they didn't make him a pink elephant.
- MichaelMoser123 3y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcZUPDMXzJ8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcZUPDMXzJ8 Dumbo's dream is from 1941, so it must have been ahead of its time!
- viraptor 3y agoThis style reminds me of the opening animation of Soul Train https://youtu.be/y3FNXkeXhOc https://youtu.be/y3FNXkeXhOc and a bit of the Beatles animated movie. Does that style of animation have a name?
- egypturnash 3y agoI believe this look traces back to the work of Push Pin Studios[1], an influential graphic design studio founded in the mid-sixties. It is hard to underestimate how much this style dominated the time; as a kid in the seventies these psychedelic stylized chrome reflections were everywhere. I mostly think of it by association with artists who were well-known for it, such as the Pushpin guys, or Peter Max. Worth looking at: the catalog from this exhibition of some of Push Pin's work. [2] 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Push_Pin_Studios https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Push_Pin_Studios 2: https://posterhouse.org/exhibition/the-push-pin-legacy/ https://posterhouse.org/exhibition/the-push-pin-legacy/ - hit the 'download' button on the right sidebar for a whole bunch of psychedelic imagery.
- ravenstine 3y agoHOLY CRAP For practically my whole life I've had this recurring memory of a 1-12 song with this exact rhythm and couldn't remember where it was from. The older I got, the more I wondered if it was manufactured purely by my imagination. I'm pretty sure this is it. Even though it was made before my time, it must have either been re-run in the 90s or some teacher might have played it off a VHS tape. Also, gotta love how the video is 12 minutes and 12 seconds long. :)
- cameron_b 3y agoIt ran until the early 2000s
- steve_adams_86 3y agoHah, I had the same experience as you a while back when my oldest was 4 or so. This rhythm and melody was like a staple of my internal, relentless sound/music generation I tend to do, but I could never remember where I got it from. Then one day this comes on and oh my god, it all came pouring back. So cool. And somehow my recollection of the tune was almost perfect; it’s insane how well we can recall music and in such detail. It must have stuck with me largely unchanged for almost 30 years.
- function_seven 3y agoI have a similar story. All my life the letters of the alphabet each had a color associated with it. D is green and K is blue, etc. One day for no particular reason I decided to pay attention to which color each letter evoked in me. And to my great surprise, it was a simple-ass repeating pattern! Up until this point, I had never actually noticed it. And when I did notice it, it sparked a new mystery for me. I knew right away that this pattern meant my color associations must have come from some toy blocks or a set of magnetic refrigerator letters. But every single time I saw these toy blocks, or magnets, they never matched the colors in my head! Finally, about five years ago, a friend of mine out of the blue sent me this link: https://neurocritic.blogspot.com/2013/01/fisher-price-synesthesia.html?m=1 https://neurocritic.blogspot.com/2013/01/fisher-price-synest... The colors in that link were the same as the ones in my head, and now I knew where I formed those associations. As a toddler playing with magnets on my fridge, that must have been this particular set. The color association is still there today, and as strong as it ever was. And it kind of helps me recall peoples’ names when I can’t think of them right away. I’ll say goofy shit like, “oh, what was his name? David? Daniel? …It’s some green name.”
- shannifin 3y agoSomething about that rolling marble is so satisfying. Haven't seen or even thought about this animation in decades, and yet it's completely familiar. It's amazing to think about memories just lying dormant in the brain for so long, consciously inaccessible without the proper stimulation. What other random stuff is hidden up there?
- ramesh31 3y agoWhy was TV so great in the 70s? What happened?
- dylan604 3y agoThe drugs of choice changed in the 80s. In the 60s/70s, it was lots of weed and psychedelics. In the 80s, it switched to cocaine, then crack in the 90s. And as we all all know, crack is whack!
- ThinkingGuy 3y agoDeregulation had a lot to do with it.
- sleepybrett 3y agoRepublicans. They defunded PBS.
- sleepybrett 3y agoI had no idea this track was sung by the pointer sisters. Wild.
- recursive 3y agoIt's this and the tiny little super guy that occupy the same corner of my childhood memories.
- blindriver 3y agoThis is a staple of my childhood since I'm a GenXer. My kids never saw a second of Sesame Street, unfortunately. We didn't watch TV, only streaming, and the other options like Daniel Tiger were much easier to get access to and relatable. It's sad that I don't have that shared experience with them but I guess that's just how life is!
- spikej 3y ago...And the new Sesame Street isn't the same. Older Sesame Street isn't available in the same episode format in high quality. The DVDs containing older Sesame Street have various clips.
- pram 3y agoYeah the new stuff is awful. I made a joke to my wife that Sesame Street got gentrified.
- bonniemuffin 3y agoThe biggest difference I've noticed is that the newer episodes are targeted to a younger demographic, which makes it seem very dumbed-down compared to the old stuff, but it means younger kids can keep up and learn from it. My 3yo learns a ton from the recent episodes, whereas the older sesame streets are just a little too complex for her to follow. I'll try the older ones on her once she ages out of the recent ones.
- hkozlowska 3y agoHi Bonnie, so sorry to be randomly commenting on this post, but I can't comment on one you posted in 2019 that I'm interested in (about BBS). I'm a journalist researching the topic. My email is in my bio. Thanks!
- dTal 3y agoIf you like this, you might also enjoy this extremely psychedelic video that is practically a homage to it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaCOvylhxks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaCOvylhxks (Leafcutter John - Yes Come Parade With Us)
- 20after4 3y agoThis song is literally my oldest memory. I was ~1 year old, maybe a bit younger.
- bloomingeek 3y agoSesame Street premiered when I was eleven years old, so I didn't ever watch any episodes. Me and my buds were outside kids and didn't have much time for TV. My children, however, loved it and I did too whenever I could watch it with them. My grown children now all use streaming services, so their kids hardly ever see Sesame Street. How times change.