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On the Right Track
The alternative rock band Train has a sound that Rolling Stone says is
“steeped in soaring melodies and drenched with quirky lyrics.” Watch
the music video for “Drops of Jupiter,” which was shot—where else?—in
an old train station.
Everybody Could Use Seven Days in the Sun
British rock trio Feeder staged their latest music video “Seven Days
in the Sun” on the balmy beaches of South Africa, including scenes
of the band playing their instruments in the surf. (Kids, don’t try
this on vacation.)
Watch the complete video here at the U.K.’s Video-C.
Bringing Home the Bacon
The Rolling Stone Concert Series presents the fabulous Bacon
Brothers, one of whom is well-known for his appearances on the
silver screen, as well. Watch brothers Michael and Kevin as they
perform their music in an archived concert at RollingStone.com.
Committed to Crazy Town
Currently number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, “Butterfly”
is the hit single from Crazy Town, the seven-man band from Los Angeles
whose “Gift of Game” album blends hip-hop with rock. Watch a full-length
music video of Butterfly, scheduled to hit the Crazy Town website today.
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Love to tour restored historic homes? Then you’ll want to
drop by the website of the long-running WGBH-TV show, “This
Old House.”
The show recently covered the extensive renovations of two
properties: an 1865 brownstone in Charlestown, Massachusetts, and a
1920s Mediterranean-revival home in the Flamingo Park neighborhood
of West Palm Beach, Florida. Under the guidance of “This Old House”
experts, each homeowner spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to
completely transform the interiors and
exteriors of their properties.
“This Old House” provides QuickTime VR tours of these homes
both before and after remodeling, and time-lapse QuickTime
movies squeeze months of backbreaking work into just a few frenetic
minutes of footage. Don’t you wish your home improvement projects
could move this quickly?
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As if it isn’t tough enough being a kid nowadays, imagine finding
out that your parents are international secret agents, that they’ve
been captured by their arch enemy—Fegan Floop and his sidekick,
Minion—and that it’s up to you to rescue them.
That’s the challenge confronting the main characters in “Spy Kids,”
a new film from Miramax. Are the kids up to the task? Will they foil
Floop’s plans and make mincemeat of Minion?
“Spy Kids,” a witty, wacky, fantasy action movie, features kids with
lots of moxie, all armed with the latest high-tech gadgets. A
combination of James Bond, PeeWee’s Playhouse, and Harry Potter, “Spy
Kids” appeals both to kids and grownups and is already a box office hit.
You can catch “Spy Kids” in U.S. theaters everywhere.
Comedie Humaine
In 1899, a young poet named Christian (Ewan MacGregor) leaves home
for the Montmartre district of Paris. There he begins a
friendship with Toulouse Lautrec (John Leguizamo) and his bohemian
entourage. When Christian is hired to write a spectacular show for
the Moulin Rouge nightclub, he enters into a passionate but doomed
love affair with Satin (Nicole Kidman), a courtesan and the club’s
highest-paid star.
In an enigmatic and anachronistic twist, the musical numbers in this
film do not include the songs by the artists of the day, but are
contemporary recordings, including music by the Beatles, Christina
Aguilera, Pink, Fatboy Slim, and Madonna.
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Thank you for reading this issue of QuickTime News.
Look for your next issue on April 20.
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Saddletude is a website devoted to all things equestrian, including
hunting, jumping, dressage, polo, racing, steeplechase, and western.
The springtime racing season is upon us, and Saddletude plans to cover
many of the major events. Watch video highlights of the Carolina
Cup, a steeplechase event that took place on March 31 in Camden,
South Carolina, with perfect footing under clear blue skies. Be sure
to check the site schedule for upcoming events in all categories.
Batter Up
Watch a rare video of Satchel Paige, one of baseball’s greatest
pitching legends, when you download “Opening Day,” an interactive,
multimedia electronic book brought to you by LiveREADs.
While most e-books are just text on screen, the LiveREADs electronic
books are enhanced with useful and exciting digital features,
including hyperlinks, audio, and video, which together make reading
a more dynamic experience.
On February 7, 1904, fire wagons sped to a blaze in downtown
Baltimore. Whipped by winds and fueled by explosions, the
fire spread rapidly, decimating the entire financial district all
the way to the city’s docks. In the 30 hours it took to put out the
fire, more than 1500 buildings were destroyed. Miraculously, no one
was killed.
Frederick W. Mueller shot a series of panoramas in 1904 after the
great Baltimore fire, and from these images, John Poole of
WashingtonPost.com created the QuickTime VR cyclorama that
chillingly depicts the aftermath of this devastating event.
 Special effects sequences—like Anakin Skywalker’s pod race in Star
Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace—are very expensive to produce; so expensive that studios want to know they’re going to
work (and what technological hurdles they’re going to have to
overcome) before they even undertake them.
So they’re using QuickTime—and other video and animation products—to create “animatics,”
animated QuickTime storyboards that allow filmmakers to
“previsualize” special effects sequences in ways not possible with
static, 2D storyboards.
“A lot of people think that QuickTime is great for playing back or
for distributing content,” says David Dozoretz, who led the four-person
animatics team on Phantom Menace, producing 8,000 to 10,000
QuickTime movies for the film, “but we use it for some pretty
high-end creation as well.”
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