A video my 18 year-old grandson made

[Frank Wimberly-2]

He's starting college this fall.  He plays the role of Travis.

https://youtu.be/sR-ike2yPKw

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[Steve Smith]

Frank -

I see from the credits that this was John's (?) production as well as the Max Headroom-style character. 

The production quality was amazing, but I assume becoming more typical of a generation raised entirely within the era of digital media.   I also found the concept and story arc very well written and most of the acting/delivery of high quality.  Just entering college, he must be among the first cohort born post millennium and even post 9/11.   

Somehow I couldn't help but transpose (in my mind) YOUR face on the screen as Travis.  I probably won't be able to face my own  

I was not deep enough in Internet Culture when the Rick Astley "Rick Roll" meme emerged to notice (or care?) but as I started hearing more and more references to it and followed up, I was underwhelmed by the concept.... until it happened to me... *twice*.  Context really DOES matter.  

- Steve

<TL;DR> My experience with Rickrolling...

At the unveiling of the first 4k planetarium system during the Imersa conference in Denver (unveiling held a the planetarium in Boulder),  Each of the 6 HD projector patches came up one at a time with test patterns and other distracting/interesting/cacophonous bits that were "convincing" enough and then they each rolled into a RickRoll of Rick Astley in his now (in)famous performance of "Never Gonna Give you Up" which then flipped from 5 "rhomboidal" and one pentagonal patches to a single seamless 4Kx4K stream filling the entire visual field above us...    I suddenly "got" the humor of this brand of unexpected tangent.

At my daughters wedding 2 years ago (held at my house), the presiding official, a friend of theirs, and her colleague in Molecular Biology in his early 40's (to her lat 30's), who got his Doctor of Divinity credentials over the Internet (Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster?), did the traditional "reading of vows".   About 3 vows in, he broke over to:

Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you

They apparently knew he was going to go "off script from the vows they wrote, but didn't know the specifics... nor did the rest of us.   It was downright hilarious to watch the two of them recite these lines in their formal gear, trying to keep a straight face.    The age distribution of the group was highly bimodal with only about 10 being their friends traveling from Portland and in the 35-45 range and the rest (excepting 4 under-10 year olds and a Dog) being my age or older (into their 70s).   There was a general bewilderment among *most* of the latter group and a buzz after the ceremony of the "youth" trying to explain it to the "aged".   Had I not been "Rickrolled" at the Planetarium several years before, I might have been equally puzzled by the "to do".

On 6/2/18 9:58 AM, Frank Wimberly wrote:

He's starting college this fall.  He plays the role of Travis.

https://youtu.be/sR-ike2yPKw

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[Alfredo Covaleda Vélez-2]

Muy divertido.

On Sat, Jun 2, 2018 at 10:58 AM, Frank Wimberly <[hidden email]> wrote:

He's starting college this fall.  He plays the role of Travis.

https://youtu.be/sR-ike2yPKw

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[Tom Johnson]

Very cool.

TJ


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https://youtu.be/sR-ike2yPKw

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[Frank Wimberly-2]

On behalf of John, thanks for appreciating his work.  Although he got into better schools (RPI, RIT, CMU priority waitlist), he's going to Champlain, where they have a video game development major with a high graduate employment rate.  My attachment to CMU is clear but you have to let them make the choice.

Frank

On Sat, Jun 2, 2018, 2:21 PM Tom Johnson <[hidden email]> wrote:

Very cool.

TJ


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He's starting college this fall.  He plays the role of Travis.

https://youtu.be/sR-ike2yPKw

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[Russ Abbott]

Very well done!

On Sat, Jun 2, 2018 at 4:09 PM Frank Wimberly <[hidden email]> wrote:

On behalf of John, thanks for appreciating his work.  Although he got into better schools (RPI, RIT, CMU priority waitlist), he's going to Champlain, where they have a video game development major with a high graduate employment rate.  My attachment to CMU is clear but you have to let them make the choice.

Frank

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Very cool.

TJ


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[Merle Lefkoff-2]

Triggered very bad memories!

On Sun, Jun 3, 2018 at 3:36 AM, Russ Abbott <[hidden email]> wrote:

Very well done!

On Sat, Jun 2, 2018 at 4:09 PM Frank Wimberly <[hidden email]> wrote:

On behalf of John, thanks for appreciating his work.  Although he got into better schools (RPI, RIT, CMU priority waitlist), he's going to Champlain, where they have a video game development major with a high graduate employment rate.  My attachment to CMU is clear but you have to let them make the choice.

Frank

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Very cool.

TJ


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https://youtu.be/sR-ike2yPKw

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