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Afterquake
May. 13th, 2009 10:09 amBy way of this post from James Fallows comes Afterquake -- a site to promote a music album by Abigail Washburn and Dave Liang that uses samples (percussion, vocals, etc.) of sounds from the Sichuan region in the wake of their earthquake a year ago.
The web site seems very deep to me. Yes, it does a lot of multimedia popups to deliver its content, but that content includes lyrics (mandarin, pinyin, english, and scans of the handwritten pages), slidehows, videos, etc.
Below is more a "Making of..." video than anything else. I'm a bit surprised, in that I seem to get maybe 1-2% of the words, and I wouldn't have thought I'd get that many already. Like Jim says:
"I think most people will find the video affecting but not depressing. It certainly makes clear why this event so dominated the country's consciousness last year. The only thing the post-earthquake scenes don't convey is how vast the devastated area was. You could drive for hours, far away from the epicenter, and still see crushed buildings and shaken-down mountains like those depicted here."
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The web site seems very deep to me. Yes, it does a lot of multimedia popups to deliver its content, but that content includes lyrics (mandarin, pinyin, english, and scans of the handwritten pages), slidehows, videos, etc.
Below is more a "Making of..." video than anything else. I'm a bit surprised, in that I seem to get maybe 1-2% of the words, and I wouldn't have thought I'd get that many already. Like Jim says:
"I think most people will find the video affecting but not depressing. It certainly makes clear why this event so dominated the country's consciousness last year. The only thing the post-earthquake scenes don't convey is how vast the devastated area was. You could drive for hours, far away from the epicenter, and still see crushed buildings and shaken-down mountains like those depicted here."
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