Animation: "Bars & Tones" by André F. Chocron

Posted by Joel Johnson, January 15, 2009 6:54 AM | permalink

A soothing serenade from a lonely test pattern. This is what television broadcast antennas sing to your televisions to lull them to sleep. [via Brother MAKE:]

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#1 posted by Agies , January 15, 2009 7:12 AM

I haven't seen a test pattern in forever. Damn you infomercials!

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#2 posted by Zandr , January 15, 2009 8:07 AM

And that, my friends, is how you know you've seen in the edit suite (or in my case, cable head-end) too long and need to go outside.

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#3 posted by ubernym , January 15, 2009 8:09 AM

Here's a youtube of the original song in full if anyone hasn't heard of the awesome Penguin Cafe Orchestra before.

Nice animation, very clever!

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#4 posted by therevengor , January 15, 2009 9:57 AM

Damn, my black levels are way too hot. And I'm slightly red.

Thanks, BBG!

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#5 posted by pewma

, January 15, 2009 10:50 AM

Who needs test patterns when there's SHAMWOW!!!

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#6 posted by roryrhorerton , January 15, 2009 3:11 PM

Whoa. I got a BSOD at the end of that video. Which is actually a pretty awesome way for that video to end.

Yup, pretty sure that's the only time I got a BSOD and thought "neat".

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#7 posted by David Carroll , January 15, 2009 6:24 PM

I am so going to send this to master control tomorrow instead of the usual bars during TSU. Hopefully, it will freak their freak..

I just wish I had it when we were feeding the World Juniors to Moscow last month..

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#8 posted by cardinale , January 15, 2009 8:44 PM

That song was in a commercial...anyone remember which one? One of those we make life better or invent cool things commercials.

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#9 posted by Chris Tucker

, January 16, 2009 1:26 AM

This is now my favorite, non-Paula Abdul back when she was REALLY hot, music video ever!

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#10 posted by David Carroll , January 16, 2009 3:16 AM

I remember downloading a 20 second clip of the Paula Abdul "Straight Up" video off FIDOnet for my Apple ][gs. It took about 4 hours, and was the size of a postage stamp.

Say what you will about Paula, she was (and possibly still is) one hell of a choreographer..