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groovy dancing girl

nickyskye — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:04:30 -0800

Groovy Dancing Girl #2. via

music: Justice's Phantom Sophie Merry, a 25 year old animator from Dublin. "filmed in slow motion and played back at higher speed, but still synchronous to the music"

By: shmegegge

shmegegge — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:17:47 -0800

I'm not trying to be an asshole about this, but I don't get it. I remember seeing a lot of music videos filmed in this technique, too. what's the deal with this?

By: DU

DU — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:17:49 -0800

I don't know what the hell I'm looking at, but I love it and the hat it's wearing.

By: wreckingball

wreckingball — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:18:33 -0800

enh. i don't really understand why that needed to be filmed in slow-motion. the first of her videos is somewhat more interesting, but i've still seen, uh, "harder, better, faster, stronger" dancing filmed at full speed.

By: DU

DU — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:19:37 -0800

Also, don't the birds put the lie to the slo-mo claim?

By: HuronBob

HuronBob — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:22:05 -0800

all I could think of was the Sienfield episode about Elaine's dancing.. 'cept maybe Elaine was a bit better.

By: Citizen Premier

Citizen Premier — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:23:18 -0800

The interesting thing is this was filmed by total strangers to the girl and then put to music.

By: From Bklyn

From Bklyn — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:26:38 -0800

"The interesting thing is this was filmed by total strangers to the girl and then put to music." Thanks for clearing that up because I didn't get it.

By: sexyrobot

sexyrobot — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:27:49 -0800

wait, was she spinning to the right or to the left? i can't tell.

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:29:16 -0800

but I don't get it. Fun? Nothing to get really. Just dancing on the beach... If DU likes it, made my day. :)

By: not_on_display

not_on_display — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:31:52 -0800

Today's Groovy Dancing Girl is tomorrow's sidebar ad for mortgage consolidation!

By: lodurr

lodurr — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:34:44 -0800

Well, she seems to be having a good time and getting some exercise and isn't torturing small animals to do it. Where'd I put my damn spectacles. Oh, here they are, on my nose. Are those kids on my lawn, again?

By: desjardins

desjardins — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:35:52 -0800

Groovy Dancing Guys (YMMV)

By: shmegegge

shmegegge — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:36:44 -0800

The interesting thing is this was filmed by total strangers to the girl and then put to music. What makes you say this? Watching it, I'm inclined to say that's not true.

By: cortex

cortex — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:40:28 -0800

I was hoping they'd done this in really slow motion and we'd see that sun make significant transit. That'd be something.

By: googly

googly — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:44:11 -0800

If I wanted to see good dancing - filmed in real time - I'd look Elsewhere.

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:44:41 -0800

Okay cortex, but I'll need some video camera batteries, a truckload of meth and a plane ticket to Goa.

By: tkchrist

tkchrist — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:45:13 -0800

Take off the stupid hat.

By: DU

DU — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:48:28 -0800

I can believe the video was tweaked a little to make her look more robotic, but either they have extremely m4d video editing sk1llz or it's mostly just her, at regular speed. Also, I'm going to demand she wear the hat at our wedding.

By: From Bklyn

From Bklyn — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:49:24 -0800

The 'Hand' version of 'harder, better, faster, stronger' is pretty nice too. (It's on the YouTube page). I didn't realize this was fun per se, I assumed it was making a greater comment about the fragility of our existence in the face of growing industrialisation that is at once bringing a commodity-centric variety of convenience and ease to our lives yet robbing us of the very things that at the same time make being alive, especially outside of cities (and by this I mean clean air and earth and sky) such a valuable and beautiful, profound, really if you just open your eyes, experience. Hence, her hat.

By: lodurr

lodurr — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:51:23 -0800

True. True.

By: cortex

cortex — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:57:28 -0800

I can believe the video was tweaked a little to make her look more robotic, but either they have extremely m4d video editing sk1llz or it's mostly just her, at regular speed. What makes you believe this wasn't shot at something like a factor of two and then framedropped or otherwise cranked down to realtime? There is an abruptness to her movements that argues pretty damned strongly toward the slowmo argument, to the point where I don't see how arguing against it makes sense unless there's something compelling I'm missing.

By: DU

DU — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:59:52 -0800

...there's something compelling I'm missing. The frequent birds flying by at more or less normal speed.

By: autodidact

autodidact — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:01:33 -0800

Those birds are not flying at regular speed. They film her dancing to a slower beat, or a slowed down version of the song, then speed it back up and lay down normal speed audio.

By: DU

DU — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:04:24 -0800

Oh, somehow I read "a factor of two" as "a factor of two hundred". Could be double speed, I guess. Hard to say without knowing how far away the birds are.

By: Uther Bentrazor

Uther Bentrazor — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:08:35 -0800

Hey cool here's another one.

By: Kirth Gerson

Kirth Gerson — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:09:36 -0800

I was hoping they'd keep filming for another 15 minutes to catch what was shaping up to be a nice sunset. After getting that annoying twitchy girl out of the picture, of course.

By: MrBobaFett

MrBobaFett — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:10:28 -0800

The first one is better, but I'm glad I now have a name to go with the face while I fantasize about her.

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:14:07 -0800

ooh, h4x0r talk, sexy.

By: JeremiahBritt

JeremiahBritt — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:18:35 -0800

I think I just saw a muffin make love to an epileptic.

By: DU

DU — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:20:18 -0800

The first one is OK, but the second one is hilarious and awesome and hilarious. And awesome.

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:26:10 -0800

I love you DU. :)

By: nyxxxx

nyxxxx — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:34:02 -0800

Are we just putting up random videos now? Ok, here's one.

By: not_on_display

not_on_display — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:47:24 -0800

...either they have extremely m4d video editing sk1llz or it's mostly just her, at regular speed. No, it's sped up. Look at the waves on the ocean behind her, advancing toward shore. (Which is what kept me watching the video, with the sound down.) (The hat makes her look like a q-tip.)

By: gorgor_balabala

gorgor_balabala — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:54:10 -0800

Is this something I'd need to be a heterosexual to understand?

By: The corpse in the library

The corpse in the library — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:03:25 -0800

Dunno, gorgor -- it's not helping me any.

By: qldaddy

qldaddy — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:21:39 -0800

I'm voting for "fun, but about a minute too long" for the one on the beach and seconding DU's "awesome and hilarious (and awesome)" for the other one. Also, I am going to demand that she wear nothing but the hat on our wedding night. (which could be before or after your wedding DU, I'm an open-minded kinda guy)

By: Skorgu

Skorgu — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:23:42 -0800

Charles, noooo! Get outta my head, Charles!

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:31:06 -0800

Why does she start out scuttling close to the ground like Gollum?

By: PeterMcDermott

PeterMcDermott — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:43:59 -0800

Here's a classic Groovy Dancing Girl

By: wfc123

wfc123 — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:18:20 -0800

Lose the hat.

By: meech

meech — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:25:36 -0800

Ah yeah nyxxxx, your link I understand but I'm really not going to click on the video beside it entitled "super models takin a dump"

By: Zero Gravitas

Zero Gravitas — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:26:46 -0800

No! Keep the hat. Watching the vid, I instantly realized that she is all that Jay Kay ever aspired to be, only with a vagina.

By: splice

splice — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:44:12 -0800

Groovy Dancing Girl and Jamiroquai would make a nice couple.

By: vronsky

vronsky — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:47:29 -0800

15 Most Valiant Attempts by White People to Learn That Soulja Boy Dance

By: rob511

rob511 — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:29:03 -0800

Next up: the Thai prison version.

By: DU

DU — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:04:06 -0800

Note: When I rewatched this video at home it had lost 90% of its charm. I think part of that was due to darkness (I can't seem to boost the bright on my CRT) and part was due to worse sync. I'll have to marry her at work, but that's OK.

By: jason's_planet

jason's_planet — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:20:28 -0800

Flagged as awesome!

By: kittens for breakfast

kittens for breakfast — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:25:01 -0800

I don't quite get it, but I do know she's dancing to the theme from Tenebrae. And that, friends, is awesome.

By: kittens for breakfast

kittens for breakfast — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:34:14 -0800

("Phantom" by Justice? Sh'yeah. Either that's some cleared "sample" remixing or you guys in Justice better hope that music's out of copyright...)

By: enfa

enfa — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 19:56:17 -0800

Tenebrae's trailer which has the original music Justice sampled from.

By: johnjreiser

johnjreiser — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 19:59:43 -0800

It doesn't even hold a candle to diaper time.

By: weapons-grade pandemonium

weapons-grade pandemonium — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:28:18 -0800

Time lapse, rather than slow-mo. Slow motion filming takes more frames per second, time lapse fewer. The girl was dancing in slow motion (say about half speed) which combined with the time lapse filming (half the frames per second played back at normal speed) gives her somewhat regular movement. Everything in the background is then double speed. You can see some of the birds flitting very quickly across the water. The boats and waves would have been moving about half their apparent speed. To create this effect, you'd have her dance to any song that was half the speed of the song you used on the film track.

By: -harlequin-

-harlequin- — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 23:48:53 -0800

Not liking this new video so much as the Faster-Better one, but: She is awesome. That is all. No... wait - there's more: It's a real shame she lives in Ireland (as opposed to "just down the street from here") :-)

By: -harlequin-

-harlequin- — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 23:56:50 -0800

I also like how she does her cool thing on Youtube, but keeps her privacy (her face not sufficiently visible for recognition) in a way that doesn't diminish the video. If she DID live just down the street, I probably wouldn't know it ...unless I saw her at a local club on the dancefloor, and then I'd know in an instant... ...providing someone had secretly slipped some drug into my drink that altered my perception of time :-)

By: johnny7

johnny7 — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 01:28:14 -0800

Does anyone else,every now and then,wish they just followed the links and skipped the comments?

By: dasheekeejones

dasheekeejones — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 03:58:02 -0800

I have an urge to push her hard so she falls back into the lake. Then, her hat will be mine!!

By: HyperBlue

HyperBlue — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 07:43:17 -0800

I love the sexy, dancing Q-Tip. [addicted to BandyToaster]

By: HyperBlue

HyperBlue — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 07:46:52 -0800

Grovy Dancing Girl Slow Still awesome. Still love it.

By: HyperBlue

HyperBlue — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 07:50:48 -0800

Grovy, Groovy, Gravy whatevah.

By: Unicorn on the cob

Unicorn on the cob — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 09:54:53 -0800

That's it. I demand a dance-off. Next meetup, can we get someone to viddy some dancing? I think we are a talented bunch and can e-challenge Q-Tip Irish Lass to a battle! She's good, but come ON! I mean, shiiiiit, I'll do it. Come on, who's with me? Bonus if we can get Lil Kim to be the judge.

By: mike_bling

mike_bling — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 11:28:53 -0800

Justice have the same sampling technique as Daft Punk - just play an old song.