OK, I watched about 7 seconds, and stopped - I found myself wondering whether the entire film was just that flying rainbow kitty with that lively techno soundtrack.
BEFORE I waste another 3:30 of my life: Does anything happen or change by the end of the flick?
I watched the whole thing with a fascination I knew quite well to be rather horrific in its implications. Somehow, the ingredients of that - er - work *do* seem (to me, anyway) to be enough to engage the senses and the idling mind more fully and for longer than a reasonable person might have thought.
Thus, I can see it being used as a hypnotic, a placebo or an attractor in various commercial or people-manipulation settings. Maybe for hours on end on a giant screen before it's time for the next Dear Leader to address the populace...
I kiinda like the B part--reminiscent of Christmas Eve or the Baltimore Salute, or something....
My point, such as it is--55 million hits. Can't be for the visuals, must be the hypnotic effect of the music. Which, tawdry and artifical as it might be, is not miles away from Irish trad. "Not many rests" as my nephew once put it--4 bars of this, repeat, 4 bars of that, repeat, back to the start--sound familiar?
If that reminds you of Irish music in any way then I am really glad that there is a pond between us. We had a wonderful session on Friday night, complete with Christmas Eve, and no part of the night sounded anything like that!
Maybe so many people have watched it because people keep posting links to it asking why it is the number 5 on you tube, hence encouraging folks to look at it! Maybe the figure would be much less if it only recorded those who watched it all the way through.........
A meme is something that uses us as an environment to exist.
Memes exist in what we create - I call it symbol-space. And it's just as real as the physical space we move in. SOmething created that. We create symbol-space as the masters of symbols.
The meme works on many levels:
1. It distracts our major senses - sight and hearing - the sight is primary colours that occupy our peak attention, the sound is major diminished 7th that snaggs the ambiguity of harmony - one of the primary modes of the circle of 5ths.
2. The experience of all primaries in our 2 peak senses releases endorphins. It makes us feel happy through peak comfort - no ambiguity, no conflict. It is repetitive - no future, no past - therefore no stress and none of the cancelling neurochemicals that moderate our caution responses (remember that a false positive threat is way more useful than a false negative).
Now .. there's another very curious thing about this meme:
Look at the background of exploding stars.
I saw exactly this pattern when I was experimenting with neural models when I was exploring raw self-organising neural networks. It is the pattern of a brain sensing a single point. It is the principle of focus that overlays our entire perceptual rule system.
The system in the white dots on the blue background is the smallest focus between directly related neurons.
This meme is hijacking your basic brain - it cannot fail to get your attention and it cannot fail to make you feel good about it.
Personally, I prefer the unicorn who farts rainbows and destroys stuff with it ;)
Memes evolve just as bacteria and mamals do - we might be destroying one environment (the Earth) but we have created one we are (almost) completely unaware of - and that's what the new millenium is all about.
AS individuals .. we better start paying attention to this stuff .. it's not all bad.
Evolution in progress. It is based on the nyan-cat but a few generations removed in meme space.
It provides a haven for the cynical - those of us who indulge in false negatives. We call this: "due dilligence": to over-ride false perception.
Either way, symbol-space is now in control - it gets us all eventually.
ITM is a primary meme - in tradition, we are at the service of the future. UNfortunately, few of us actually realise how important this is. We should forge on - but not to the exclusion of the future - we already have our place .. and it's a good one - the primaries cannot be forgotten.
5th most watched YouTube of 2011
5th most watched YouTube of 2011
"could someone explain why over 55 million people watched this flying animated cat? See below the fifth most watched video on YouTube in 2011. "
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=QH2-TGUlwu4
(I think it's maybe because the music is almost a reel--isn't it?)
# Posted on December 25th 2011 by John Galt
Re: 5th most watched YouTube of 2011
Haha damn, I just wasted 3 minutes and 37 seconds of my life..
# Posted on December 25th 2011 by Mattias Holm
Re: 5th most watched YouTube of 2011
Almost a real?!?
# Posted on December 25th 2011 by seaniemcg
Re: 5th most watched YouTube of 2011
Has to one of the worst things Ive ever seen on here...
# Posted on December 25th 2011 by seaniemcg
Re: 5th most watched YouTube of 2011
OK, I watched about 7 seconds, and stopped - I found myself wondering whether the entire film was just that flying rainbow kitty with that lively techno soundtrack.
BEFORE I waste another 3:30 of my life: Does anything happen or change by the end of the flick?
More here. perhaps.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZZ7oFKsKzY&feature=related
Merry Xmas.
Happy Yule.
# Posted on December 25th 2011 by Piece
Re: 5th most watched YouTube of 2011
PS!!!
This just in or all your box players/enthusiasts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cY2VybnyNE&feature=related
(All I love best about the squeeze box, in one package. Sigh)
# Posted on December 25th 2011 by Piece
Re: 5th most watched YouTube of 2011
Why waste 3 minutes 30 seconds when you could waste ten hours?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZZ7oFKsKzY
# Posted on December 25th 2011 by Jack Campin
Re: 5th most watched YouTube of 2011
Just....why?
We made it to about 35 seconds.
# Posted on December 25th 2011 by DrSilverSpear
Re: 5th most watched YouTube of 2011
Why waste 10 hours when you can waste 100?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AA5DsLzSVrk&feature=related
# Posted on December 25th 2011 by Minerva McGonagall
Re: 5th most watched YouTube of 2011
I watched the whole thing with a fascination I knew quite well to be rather horrific in its implications. Somehow, the ingredients of that - er - work *do* seem (to me, anyway) to be enough to engage the senses and the idling mind more fully and for longer than a reasonable person might have thought.
Thus, I can see it being used as a hypnotic, a placebo or an attractor in various commercial or people-manipulation settings. Maybe for hours on end on a giant screen before it's time for the next Dear Leader to address the populace...
# Posted on December 25th 2011 by nicholas
Re: 5th most watched YouTube of 2011
(I mean, I watched the first link cited here, the one of the flying cat...)
# Posted on December 25th 2011 by nicholas
Re: 5th most watched YouTube of 2011
Just putting in an ABC request now :D
# Posted on December 25th 2011 by SmashTheWindows
Re: 5th most watched YouTube of 2011
I got about 4 seconds in. I was wanting to turn it off before the picture had even come up!
# Posted on December 25th 2011 by No Cause For Alarm
Re: 5th most watched YouTube of 2011
Been listening to the ten hour version.
catchy tune.
I want the dots.
# Posted on December 26th 2011 by Piece
Re: 5th most watched YouTube of 2011
I wonder...... does the Nyan Cat come from the land of the Nyah?
# Posted on December 26th 2011 by Free Reed
Re: 5th most watched YouTube of 2011
I kiinda like the B part--reminiscent of Christmas Eve or the Baltimore Salute, or something....
My point, such as it is--55 million hits. Can't be for the visuals, must be the hypnotic effect of the music. Which, tawdry and artifical as it might be, is not miles away from Irish trad. "Not many rests" as my nephew once put it--4 bars of this, repeat, 4 bars of that, repeat, back to the start--sound familiar?
# Posted on December 26th 2011 by John Galt
Re: 5th most watched YouTube of 2011
If that reminds you of Irish music in any way then I am really glad that there is a pond between us. We had a wonderful session on Friday night, complete with Christmas Eve, and no part of the night sounded anything like that!
# Posted on December 26th 2011 by No Cause For Alarm
Re: 5th most watched YouTube of 2011
http://www.thesession.org/discussions/display/27352
# Posted on December 26th 2011 by Weejie
Re: 5th most watched YouTube of 2011
It's obviously for 13 year girls - that's why we don't get it.
# Posted on December 26th 2011 by Hup
Re: 5th most watched YouTube of 2011
ABC submitted.
# Posted on December 26th 2011 by Jack Campin
Re: 5th most watched YouTube of 2011
Maybe so many people have watched it because people keep posting links to it asking why it is the number 5 on you tube, hence encouraging folks to look at it! Maybe the figure would be much less if it only recorded those who watched it all the way through.........
# Posted on December 27th 2011 by oldhippyandy
Re: 5th most watched YouTube of 2011
This is a meme.
.. it's not all bad.
What is a meme?
A meme is something that uses us as an environment to exist.
Memes exist in what we create - I call it symbol-space. And it's just as real as the physical space we move in. SOmething created that. We create symbol-space as the masters of symbols.
The meme works on many levels:
1. It distracts our major senses - sight and hearing - the sight is primary colours that occupy our peak attention, the sound is major diminished 7th that snaggs the ambiguity of harmony - one of the primary modes of the circle of 5ths.
2. The experience of all primaries in our 2 peak senses releases endorphins. It makes us feel happy through peak comfort - no ambiguity, no conflict. It is repetitive - no future, no past - therefore no stress and none of the cancelling neurochemicals that moderate our caution responses (remember that a false positive threat is way more useful than a false negative).
Now .. there's another very curious thing about this meme:
Look at the background of exploding stars.
I saw exactly this pattern when I was experimenting with neural models when I was exploring raw self-organising neural networks. It is the pattern of a brain sensing a single point. It is the principle of focus that overlays our entire perceptual rule system.
The system in the white dots on the blue background is the smallest focus between directly related neurons.
This meme is hijacking your basic brain - it cannot fail to get your attention and it cannot fail to make you feel good about it.
Personally, I prefer the unicorn who farts rainbows and destroys stuff with it ;)
Memes evolve just as bacteria and mamals do - we might be destroying one environment (the Earth) but we have created one we are (almost) completely unaware of - and that's what the new millenium is all about.
AS individuals .. we better start paying attention to this stuff
# Posted on January 2nd 2012 by Mozle
Re: 5th most watched YouTube of 2011
Check this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxHhBx1FtLQ&ob=av3e
Evolution in progress. It is based on the nyan-cat but a few generations removed in meme space.
It provides a haven for the cynical - those of us who indulge in false negatives. We call this: "due dilligence": to over-ride false perception.
Either way, symbol-space is now in control - it gets us all eventually.
ITM is a primary meme - in tradition, we are at the service of the future. UNfortunately, few of us actually realise how important this is. We should forge on - but not to the exclusion of the future - we already have our place .. and it's a good one - the primaries cannot be forgotten.
# Posted on January 2nd 2012 by Mozle
I never watched the *cat* video ~ this one barely broke one million. So, it really doesn't compare.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwYC8K3UrFc
;)
# Posted on January 22nd 2012 by ain't fluffed