Animation: “Bars & Tones” by André F. Chocron

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:]

1. [Agies]

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

2. [Zandr]

   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.

3. [ubernym]

   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!

4. [therevengor]

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

   Thanks, BBG!

5. [pewma]

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

6. [roryrhorerton]

   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”.

7. [David Carroll]

   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..

8. [cardinale]

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

9. [Chris Tucker]

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

10. [David Carroll]

    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..