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"Like A Rolling Stone" – Interactive Video

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Re: "Like A Rolling Stone" – Interactive Video

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Post by claybinion »

ambler0 wrote: post #8
jere wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seriously?? It's just a few fake TV show clips they recorded specifically for this video. And for me, the channel buttons do nothing but bring up a description of the current "channel." [edit: the channels do change after a delay] Aside: I'm sure I've heard it all throughout my life, but it was only a few days ago that I looked up the lyrics and backstory behind this song. For a song written just shy of 50 years ago,…

How long did you stick with it? It cycles through the same few channels at the very beginning and starts you on the same channel (food channel?) each time, but after that I think you're in control. EDIT: OK, so I messed with this some more. It does appear to change channels on its own from time to time, so it doesn't seem possible to see whether they recorded the entire song for each channel. Also, it didn't start me…

I think once you change the channel once, it let's your stay on a certain channel for the entire song. I was able to watch a single channel for the majority of the song. And the first channel that is chosen for you seems to be random, it's been different the 3 times I watched it.

Re: "Like A Rolling Stone" – Interactive Video

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Post by timdorr »

nailer wrote: post #28

The Rolling Stones (which names themselves after this song) also have an innovative video for their cover: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziRR5h3b4YU It's 183,000 photographs, morphed into each other.

That number doesn't sound right. It's a 4:21 minute long video, or 261 seconds. At 30 frames per second, that's only 7,830 frames for the whole video.

Maybe that was the total source material they filtered through?

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Post by vjoel »

nailer wrote: post #28

The Rolling Stones (which names themselves after this song) also have an innovative video for their cover: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziRR5h3b4YU It's 183,000 photographs, morphed into each other.

Citation needed. The Rolling Stones started in '62. Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone" is from '65.

Wikipedia attribute the band's name to the Muddy Waters song, "Rollin' Stone".

Re: "Like A Rolling Stone" – Interactive Video

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Post by jonknee »

phogster wrote: post #33
sneak wrote: post #27

Running flash is a terrible security risk. I won't do it even for Dylan. Bummer. Someone should've told his dev team that the times, they are a-changin'...

How do you watch youtube videos without flash?

Thanks to mobile devices, most are available with HTML5 video.

Re: "Like A Rolling Stone" – Interactive Video

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Post by mortenjorck »

sneak wrote: post #27

Running flash is a terrible security risk. I won't do it even for Dylan. Bummer. Someone should've told his dev team that the times, they are a-changin'...

  Running flash is a terrible security risk.
I won't disagree, but this is bobdylan.com and not free-videos-online.ru. Risk of a zero-day Flash Player exploit hosted from there is probably acceptable for most people who walk outdoors.

Re: "Like A Rolling Stone" – Interactive Video

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Post by interpol_p »

phogster wrote: post #33
sneak wrote: post #27

Running flash is a terrible security risk. I won't do it even for Dylan. Bummer. Someone should've told his dev team that the times, they are a-changin'...

How do you watch youtube videos without flash?

I've been using the YouTube5 Safari extension. I find it a lot nicer than the flash player. Scrubbing actually works, you can expand a video to its native resolution, and fullscreen works better.

Re: "Like A Rolling Stone" – Interactive Video

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Post by ForHackernews »

dakrisht wrote: post #38

This is just wonderful. On so many levels. Steve Jobs is smiling down from wherever he might be. As we all are. And wow, comments on HN that all agree with each other. No bashing. No hate. What a wonderful thing. Beautiful

Steve Jobs? Wut?

Re: "Like A Rolling Stone" – Interactive Video

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Post by navs »

ForHackernews wrote: post #39
dakrisht wrote: post #38

This is just wonderful. On so many levels. Steve Jobs is smiling down from wherever he might be. As we all are. And wow, comments on HN that all agree with each other. No bashing. No hate. What a wonderful thing. Beautiful

Steve Jobs? Wut?

It's well known that Steve Jobs was a huge Dylan fan. As well as the Beatles. I don't know if he'd be smiling though. This is flash based after all.
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