I've already gone over the idea of being a xenobotanist, but it hadn't occurred to me until recently that there were much on offer in the field of xenozoology. That said, it seems patently clear that people don't put nearly enough time into the careful consideration and analysis of the alien threats that constantly lurk in the gaping void of space.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCV7OGEfydk
They're waiting for us, out there among the stars, these strange parasitic entities, bristling with strange appendages (ovipositors and suchlike). In cases like these, education is the key to survival; in order to properly combat the inhuman menace, we must consider in detail the threats it poses.
To that end, I was able to use my xenobotanical reputation to swing the funding needed to land an expedition on an uncharted planetoid to film the creatures you'll see in this video. I warn you now, the video you are about to watch contains scenes of a graphic nature. We show you these not because they are intended to shock, but because we understand the importance of education about the universe around us.
Thank goodness we have Sir David Attenborough to guide us through these harsh times, to help educate us on the alien menace, its strange biology and habits.
For the last week or so, this video has been blocked worldwide due to a copyright claim. About an hour ago, I filed a disagreement it was all solved super quickly. I'm very impressed with the whole process
Also, I think I know more about David Attenborough's speech patterns than any other human being alive.
This has not diminished my impression of the man at all. He is a wonder.
5/5 that video was hilarious! Also, how did you make it? Did you extract Mr. Attenborough's voice from separate occasions, take just one speech of his or pull off an amazing impersonation?
On February 21 2012 04:22 AnachronisticAnarchy wrote: Also, how did you make it?
I just stripped the audio from as many Attenborough documentaries as I could find, opened them all in Audacity and clipped as many samples from them as I could find that were relevant. From there, all I had to do was find enough shots of the creature(s) from Alien to actually make the whole thing work out and then try to line them up such that the events/voice made sense together.
It would probably have been easier to just learn how to do a really good Attenborough impersonation
Thanks all :D The YouTube copyright business was the first time I've ever had to file a dispute or whatever it is, I had honestly expected it to take forever and be full of headaches, but within an hour or so it said that the offended party had "agreed with your dispute" and suddenly it was all viewable
On February 21 2012 15:12 thedeadhaji wrote: Would you care to elaborate on the copyright complaint and how you resolved it? Is it because the BBC's work is in the public domain?
Yeah, no problem The audio was claimed, though it doesn't say by who; it's listed as having been objected to by the Music Publishing Rights Collection Society, but there's nothing more specific than that. The visual portion was also immediately claimed by Fox.
A close friend is an artist who's had some stuff objected to in the past, so he advised me to file a copyright dispute and claim that the content, while it had come from a number of existing sources, constituted art in its own right. Within an hour the folks from the Music Publishing Rights Collection Society had manually signed off to say that they agreed with my dispute/claim and that it was happy to allow it to be shown worldwide.
Fox hasn't responded, but I'm given to the impression that not responding equates a "don't worry about it" sort of position
i think i remember hearing somewhere that large companies like fox have people whos actual job it is to go round social sites like youtube and just dispute everything, even if its obviously under fair use or another exception, they just dispute everything passing on the work of working out if its problematic to youtube.
Awesome video editing. That scene is super disgusting but 5/5 anyway.
Also I kind of wonder if the copyright claim on the audio might have been for the music, rather than the narration? I believe YouTube has algorithms which check the audio when you upload a video and compare it to some set of copyrighted music. I imagine this is to stop people who just upload a song over a slideshow or the lyrics.
Hhahaha this is brilliant so glad that it's not under copyright block anymore. I've always like David Attenborough's narration but I didn't know his name until now. Thanks for sharing.
A lot of people will never understand the amount of effort this must have taken SO AWESOME!!! By the way, your sig seems to have two too many dashes at the end
This was so well done! I think I speak for all when I say that I for one, welcome our new insect overlords. Hopefully sir David Attenborough lives long enough to narrate our doom! :>
On February 21 2012 04:34 thedeadhaji wrote: OMG amazing.
Reminded me of when my British friends gave me tons of shit for not knowing who David Attenborough was X_X
Funnily enough, that's probably because Sigourney Weaver did the voice over for the Planet Earth USA release (seeing as how its the most relevant recent nature documentary).
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