[Olpc-open] G1G1 updates, Lennon video and other vids

[david at lang.hm]

On Sat, 27 Dec 2008, Samuel Klein wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The Lennon video that's been murmured about for weeks has been
> released.  I'm curious to see reactions from the list.  If anyone
> makes a screensaver version of the opening sequence, which I love,
> I'll send you my first attempt at a memory-doubled XO.  I'm hoping to
> get more details about how it was made to post as well...  It's had
> 50,000 views (wow, make that 65k since I wrote this draft at lunch) in
> the past day.  Details and a couple other awesome video links are up
> on the blog.
>  http://blog.laptop.org

personal opinion here, I don't like using digital fakery to make dead 
celebreties say things that they never said (movies that are clearly 
fiction are an exception to this)

In this case I think the quality of the audio splicing also leave a lot to 
be desired (but then again, I've never listened to recordings of Lennon 
talking, so it could be his real speech pattern)

the other videos on the blog are very interesting. I hadn't heard of this 
blog before, thanks for the pointer.

David Lang