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Could This Be the Most Beautiful New York Hurricane Video?
- Posted on August 29, 2011 at 5:02pm by
Tiffany Gabbay
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Felix Thompson and Brandon Roots of Buffalo Picture House shot black-and-white footage of Hurricane Irene as it swept through New York. From an artistic standpoint, it’s quite something:
(h/t: Business Insider)
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Comments (108)
UTCHEMGUY
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 6:00pmSorry most of you did not like the music. I guess they don’t teach music appreciation anymore. Very sad.
Report Post »becker88
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 6:15pmI enjoyed it too. Nature at its best.
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Report Post »loriann12
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 6:47pmI rather liked the serene music. Fit with the pictures. Of course, I like classical as well. Long haired music.
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 6:55pmEverybody’s an art critic. I thought it was nice.
Report Post »Miami
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 7:35pmNewYork never looked so good….
NewYork – NewYorkers = Nice place to live
Report Post »walkwithme1966
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 7:53pmI thought the whole thing was great – job well done!! http://wp.me/pYLB7-1CG
Report Post »66 bronco
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 10:52pmYeah…. the piano was awesome!!!
“Today’s music” has lost it’s way. Most artists uses canned music and voice filters while singing hatred, foul language, and sexuality. Couple all that together with very little talent doesn’t make for good music!!! :-(
Report Post »ICRedifURBlue
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:04pmDon’t usually go for artsy fartsy but………Damn that was GOOD…….
Report Post »AnAppealToGod
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 12:19amClaire De Lune – Claude Debussy
Report Post »Non-regulator
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 12:26amClosed my eyes and imagined water drops running down a sunlit tulip pedal. Kind of a breezy serene ditty that song is, like the menacing Irene.
Report Post »RobbyVG
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 9:14amTeaching appreciation of music is an oxymoron.
I liked the music. However, I could never teach or force anyone else to like it. Teaching music appreciation is like trying to convince someone they should be self sufficient (doesn’t mean storing false GMO food that will be good for 6 months)…. doesn’t work.
Report Post »UTCHEMGUY
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 9:39amROBBYVG,
There is more to music appreciation than forcing students to listen to music they don’t want to hear. It is about learning all aspects of music including: reading, creating, understanding, and most importantly comprehending what is musical talent and what is takes to be a good musician. Ignorance of music leads to mediocre output just like any other field. Many “musicians” today can neither write nor read music. Shameful!
Report Post »HenryCameron
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 12:01pmWell, most of the current generation of teenage girls appreciate it as Edward’s favorite music in Twilight.
Report Post »DEADFACEBOOK
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 12:33pmthat was quite lame. not mush art to it, showing a bunch of random objects blowing in the wind seems pointless. i suppose if i were from ny and had never seen a hurricane it could be considered neat, but im from fl and see this weather every season, we get storms daily that are more intense than what irene.
Report Post »JerryNic
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 5:51pmMostly negative replies. Bummer. I enjoyed it. Thanks for posting.
Report Post »Bro Geo Too
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 5:49pmGreat choice of music and good video too. Thanks, I needed that.
Report Post »randy
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 5:47pmCOULD THIS BE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL NEW YORK HURRICANE VIDEO?
NEW YORK DID not have a Hurricane. It was only a rain storm!
Report Post »cnchess
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 7:13pmSure we did! A 16 MPH average wind speed, slow-motion Media Hyped Hurricane! It sure rained a lot though.
Report Post »mohavegreen
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 5:40pmHaving trouble understanding Mayor Bloomers in a bind. Snow storms last winter you ask New Yorkers of come out and play, rain storm this summer you directed they stay home. I understand rat maze living confuses issues but giving direction to confusion please mayor help me.
Report Post »BOUGHT YOUR SILO YET?
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 5:35pmCan we all just take a moment and reflect on the power of this video. How so very profound and moving it was to watch. The emotion and poetic tempo that will remain forever embedded in our hearts. And the sense of mourning we have for those few minutes of our lives we will never get back.
Report Post »Seabee79
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 5:48pmCool video.
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 6:23pmYou’re kidding right? Relect on what? It was a rainstorm in New York. Good grief.
Report Post »mauijonny
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 9:48pmLOL! @ SILO…some peeps just have no sense of humor and a sense of the sublimely obvious.
Report Post »dealer@678
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 10:14pmIt sucked
Report Post »BOUGHT YOUR SILO YET?
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:58pmOMG- Of course I was being sarcastic. I guess I did a poor job with that.
Report Post »pattybbb1
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 12:04amvery, very nice.
Report Post »SPOT_OF_TEA
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 5:35pmWhen they get up to the letter O when naming hurricanes for this year,I wonder what they are going to call it……I have a suggestion.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 5:51pm2011 Atlantic Hurricane Names …
Arlene
Bret
Cindy
Don
Emily
Franklin
Gert
Harvey
Irene
Jose
Katia
Lee
Maria
Nate
Ophelia — petition for OBAMA!
Philippe
Rina
Sean
Tammy
Vince
Whitney
TEA!
Report Post »codygreenhalgh
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 5:33pm“From an artistic standpoint, it’s quite something” … No, not really.
Report Post »parmajohn
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 5:31pmI guess I must not be sophisticated enough to get it….No mention of the death.destruction flooding 5 million with no power billions in damage Or Our president and his team reacting to a storm we all new was on the way….Good photo ops for them But Guess what IT“S GONNA HAPPEN AGAIN another on the way ”Folks”
Report Post »checkit
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 5:22pmI think all the weird (unusual for such a weak storm) News coverage was to aid obama’s election future that flopped. He was noted as taking control… “Obama Takes Charge at Hurricane Command Center Hours Before Irene Downgraded to Tropical Storm…”
Here is the link.
http://www.breitbart.tv/obama-takes-charge-at-hurricane-command-center-hours-before-irene-downgraded-to-trop-storm/
He was also telling people be prepared for the worse…
http://www.breitbart.tv/obama-on-irene-prepare-for-the-worst/
Just my opinion, I think his advisers said… WOW! a Gift a Hurricane… Lets get obama out there to look like he knows what he is doing and taking charge… But then the Hurricane flopped… just like their plans. To bad they can’t get this serious about jobs.
Report Post »aperry975
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 5:19pmI heard there was a tree limb down on 45th, he must have missed that one.
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 5:45pmI Hate Pea’s, NYC and Bloomberg !!
Report Post »ooskerDoo
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 5:17pmMaybe mild in NY, but don’t tout that video around our friend that lost their ENTIRE HOUSE in the storm.
Report Post »Why didn’t you go catch THAT on film, eh?
dscon
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 5:16pmmust be pelossi’s “just be artistic in this economic downturn”
Report Post »u know unemployment/food stamps!
stimulus cr4p.
vtxphantom
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 5:16pmI would think some shots of Times Square and Wall street would fit the bill, not close ups of unknown sites, at least to me, of NY. Guess I don’t have the artistic eye.
Report Post »Bullfrog85
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 5:24pmI think it was meant to “take you there”. All I saw was toilet paper used as do not enter tape, graffiti, and policemen. Looks like another day in the ghetto
Report Post »donh2
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 6:06pmI agree, the first shot was the only good one. Too many long out of focus closeups of repetatively similar images.
Report Post »Iman Barak Hussein
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 5:16pmNeeds a little more T & A.
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 5:37pmMade Me go Home, Could‘a Been Singin’ In D’a Rain….
Report Post »J144
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 5:16pmYes, please remove this so others don’t waste their time!
Report Post »J144
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 5:20pmThe above was not in response to Iman …, unfortunate timing may make it appear so.
Report Post »wlharman
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 5:14pmIrene is a reminder that we are not in control. The video was weak.
Report Post »J4YM3
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 5:14pmThe music in the video was obviously used to make the hurricane look like it had more of a punch!
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Report Post »Black_Dynamite
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 5:14pmWhen I saw the bicycle alone in the rain, I almost teared up…..Almost
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Report Post »spirited
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 5:22pmThe music was correctly chosen.
>Can anyone name that song?
Report Post »UTCHEMGUY
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 5:54pmClair de Lune by Claude Debussy
Report Post »Smug
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 8:17pmSpirited I agree it was the perfect music, and nicely done. I enjoyed it……….MSSMUG
Report Post »larryhot13
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 5:13pmboring, snoring, should have been ignoring.
Report Post »shirelover
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 5:12pmI guess I‘m a philistene’s, I don’t get it.
Report Post »South Philly Boy
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 5:12pmWhat Hurricane?
Report Post »Bullfrog85
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 5:12pmTake away the music, add the color. You have dirty and desolate streets. They should be proud.
Report Post »Vince Foster
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 5:08pm.
Report Post »Pretentious NYU Film School crapola.
Stoic one
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 5:08pmYea, is that it????
Report Post »did not do anything for me……. guess i am not that artistically receptive..