Friday, March 13, 2015

It's About Frogs, You See

The question is how one says 'it is the end of the world and music is your salvation' without sounding hammerhead atheist which isn't even close to my purpose.  Any words specifically on that theme can't help but sound pompous so that leaves only one answer:  write it about frogs.

For a great many frogs, it is the end of the world as vast die-offs have taken place because of a) a fungus, b) Fukashima, c) frog flu ... who knows what causes it but they die.  They don't die through any sin of their own so maybe they're frog martyrs to human transgressions or they're getting screwed by evolution.  I really don't know but I do know there's a mess of dead amphibians as a result.

So that covers the end of the world part but then there has to be some kind of frog salvation.  If you've ever been to Tennessee, you know frog salvation is the sound of bullfrogs on a summer night as that is one frog symphony.  It's not just bullfrogs as it really is a symphony with many voices.

I don't think a frog symphony is really what I want to play so that's going to be a bit of a challenge.  Even writing about frogs at all could be ponderous as people who are aware of environmental damage already know and others presumably don't care.

(Ed:  NO frog love songs)

Too late.

Poor end of the world frog thinks he's the last frog in the pond, the last one on the planet ... until he gets to the Frog Rockhouse where he finds music and frog love plus a ton of lasers.  You know how frogs love lasers.


Flash:  frog love comes from Second Life.  If someone doesn't make a frog avatar already, I bet someone would.  Then you green screen the frogs dancing or doing whatever you like.  Better with frogs would be a blue screen but it would come out the same as you mask that out by chroma key so blue or green doesn't matter except as to how much either may conflict with the primary colors you are trying to preserve.

The tricky part is the camera in Second Life has to have the same general positioning as the primary camera in the video.  For example, if the RL camera is two meters off the ground then the one in SL needs the same.  It should be roughly the same distance to the frogs in SL as it is to me in the Rockhouse from the RL camera as then in the composite the frogs can be dancing beside me.


Verge!  If anyone has a frog avatar, there's the one.


Whoops ... there's a $100 flaw as I need to license Camtastic.  Frogs can't take priority over Cincinnati so this will keep.  That's ok as I'm sure this story isn't twisted enough yet.

So, frog love and the salvation at the end of the world is music.  Well, roll all that together, would you.

Fark ... now I'm seeing animated frogs hopping around downtown Fort Worth.  I know I can do it.  The hard part is why but it would be hopelessly funny I think.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Did you smoke your lunch again??? :) Dream it--it could happen! ML

P.S. Have a good weekend!!

Unknown said...

I know you can see those frogs hopping around downtown. Once you have the image, you're kind of stuck with it, tho.

Anonymous said...

Yes and overtaking any water feature in sight...look out Tyler Davis Fountain!

And the sinks and toilets of public rest rooms...

Unknown said...

Frogs in the fountain would be a great one! No doubt I'll bring a cam with me so there's the chance for the footage.