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February 2, 2009
Mad World
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I was surfing around youtube the other day and came across a song that struck me. It turns out that the track is Gary Jules' remake of the Tears For Fears song "Mad World". Susan informs me that the lead singer of Tears For Fears prefers the Gary Jules remake over their original version.
Once I had the song, I figured I'd cobble together some shots of Jennifer. The slides show Jennifer in the Geography Bee finals, Jen playing around with Allie, kids spilling out of school at the end of the day, and the second rehearsal for "The Emperor's New Clothes".
These images are compiled into an 11 Meg (2:56) Adobe Flash slideshow(faces.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 short lens is an image stabilized, ultra-sonic telescopic zoom lens (EF-S 17-85mm f/4.0-5.6 IS USM). The long lens is a Canon L-series ultra-sonic telescopic zoom lens (EF 100-400mm f/4.0-5.6 IS USM) with an ET-83C hood. The flash is a Canon Speedlite 580EX with a Gary Fong Light-Sphere II diffuser. For the blur-motion shots, I used a Bogen - Manfrotto tripod with a Bogen - Manfrotto 3265 Grip Action Ball Head with Quick Release and a Canon RS-80N3 remote shutter release.
If you want to view the slideshow as a Windows executable, you can play this version (faces.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 Gary Jules remake of Mad World, originally by Tears For Fears.
Click here to view the other slideshows.
Lyrics in the extended entry.
Gary Jules
Mad World
All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places
Worn out faces
Bright and early for the daily races
Going no where
Going no where
Their tears are filling up their glasses
No expression
No expression
Hide my head I wanna drown my sorrow
No tomorrow
No tomorrow
And I find I kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I�m dying are the best I�ve ever had
I find it hard to tell you
I find it hard to take
When people run in circles its a very very
Mad world
Mad world
Children waiting for the day they feel good
Happy birthday
Happy birthday
And I feel the way that every child should
Sit and listen
Sit and listen
Went to school and I was very nervous
No one knew me
No one new me
Hello teacher tell me what�s my lesson
Look right through me
Look right through me
And I find I kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I�m dying are the best I�ve ever had
I find it hard to tell you
I find it hard to take
When people run in circles its a very very
Mad world
Mad world
Enlarging your world
Mad world
Posted by Rob Kiser on February 2, 2009 at 8:11 PM
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