The Stupidest Sentence in Philosophy

"The investigation of the truth is in one way hard, in another easy."

Aristotle: Metaphysics, a, 1.

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Fourty years ago this week the Chinese Cultural Revolution started at the behest of Chairman and Madam Mao.

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I don't know why I am posting about his, but I am sure that only nomikkh and John W. will care (or even know what I am talking about). Basically this post will only interest those who know what 'AMV' means, ... or want to know.

In my random drunkin late night searching on youtube.com tonight I ran across two Soul Coughing "music videos",

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-SBpDjiILM&search=soul%20coughing%20

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYtF1T1C4PM&search=soul%20coughing%20

The first is of "Circles" added to a clip of the Flinstones, and the secons of "Rolling" added to a Betty Boop clip. The info at the site says that Catoon Network made them, although it wouldn't suprise me if they are the real music videos made by the band. If I had to guess I would say they where made in about '97 or '98, and I would say that not becuse I know anything about video editing software, but that is about when Sould Coughing was hip and cutting edge .

My point in bringing this up is that these two videos seem antique to me and I was wondering if any one else, used to wathing new AMVs, might agree. In the "Circles" video the editors did not even try to match the cartoons movements to the beat of the music, and although the second one does better you get the sense that it is because there is just more flow in the cartoon to go with the music.

Compare this with any classic or highly rated AMV and you will see a world of difference, such videos like this or this or the classic . Has video editing advanced this much in eight years? If computers made it possible for everybody to be an editor, does that mean that the bar had been raised to new hights? I think so, Anyone can now do a much better job at Soul Coughing videos (f they knew who soul coughing was). Another example of the same thing is audio editing, I couldn't imagine anyone getting a record deal for doing what the Jerky Boys did (back in 1992) because we can all do that now; Here is the proof.