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January 17, 2009
The Emperor's New Clothes
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Jennifer and I are reading "Freddy The Pilot", a favorite of mine from middle school. After I put her to bed, I watched You, Me, and Dupree which my sister forced me to watch when it came out a few years ago. I love the movie, and of course I'm a huge Owen Wilson fan. And I'm always Jonesing for new tracks and I heard this song on the movie which I loved, but of course, it isn't on the soundtrack, which just drives me nuts. So, I backed it up with my DishPlayer and searched for the lyrics on the web.
I was surprised to discover it was a Coldplay song, as I figured that I would have heard it before. The trick is that the song is named "Fix You" and, I did know the song, but I didn't recognize it because they cut into the song about midway through, which makes it worlds better, IMHO.
So, I did the same thing. I imported the .mp3 file into Audacity and trimmed off the first 2:40 of the song, which they should have done if they had any sense. But I digress.
Once I had the song, I figured I'd cobble together some shots of Jennifer rehearsing for her school's adaptation of "The Emperor's New Clothes".
These images are compiled into a 12 Meg (2:43) Adobe Flash slideshow(fixyou.swf) that you should be able to open and view with any browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, etc.). To view the slideshow, just click on the photo above.
These images were all captured with a Canon EOS 40D with a Canon BG-E2 battery grip. The lens is an image stabilized, ultra-sonic telescopic zoom lens (EF-S 17-85mm f/4.0-5.6 IS USM). The flash is a Canon Speedlite 580EX with a Gary Fong Light-Sphere II diffuser.
If you want to view the slideshow as a Windows executable, you can play this version (fixyou.exe), and it allows you to play, pause, skip forward, backwards, etc.
Image post-processing was done in Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended. The slideshow was created using Imagematics Stillmotion Pro.
The soundtrack is a modified (shortened) version of Fix You by Coldplay.
Click here to view the other slideshows.
Lyrics in the extended entry.
When you try your best, but you don't succeed
When you get what you want, but not what you need
When you feel so tired, but you can't sleep
Stuck in reverse
And the tears come streaming down your face
When you lose something you can't replace
When you love someone but it goes to waste
Could it be worse?
Lights will guide you home,
And ignite your bones,
And I will try to fix you,
High up above or down below
When you're too in love to let it go
But if you never try you'll never know
Just what you're worth
Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you
Tears stream down your face
When you lose something you cannot replace
Tears stream down your face
And I
Tears stream down your face
I promise you I will learn from my mistakes
Tears stream down your face
And I
Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you
Posted by Rob Kiser on January 17, 2009 at 12:48 AM
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