Longmont Potion Castle

i still don't even think i've talked to him directly, and don't think i will! he is mysterious.

that is awesome karl. a friend here in longmont actually accused someone of being LPC recently and he denied it.

I just imagine him calling you to discuss specifics, fully in character w/effects and burly threats.

so rad, congrats

"The representative from LPC"

Congrats Karl - can't wait to see what happens!

rad news!

:)

i promise not to liveblog the making of this clip but i think LPC fans would appreciate knowing that the first two sections that i'm working on appear to be 157 BPM (in fact, i'm almost certain it's more like 157.4 BPM) and 143 BPM, respectively. at 30 frames per second, this means that 1 beat = .382165 seconds = 11.46 frames ,and 4 beats = 1.5286 seconds = 45.86 frames. i appreciate that, structurally, there is no way to exactly align the animation frames to the beat. It'll be close enough that no one except audio rain man will be able to tell the difference, but it'll still require the creation of 46 frame animation segments (and the occasional 45-framer so things don't get too far out of whack) to make it work, which is awesome

Totally awesome! :D

Were you an LPC fan already or did you dig in his stuff when this opportunity arose?

i knew a little bit about him...a friend of mine put him on a mix for me way back in the day, and i remember looking through this thread on occasion. but i've definitely done much more of a deep dive over the last couple weeks. heavy LPC vibes in my apartment recently, it's been a madhouse!

It has always vexed me that some professional editing programs like Avid Media Composer and suchlike don't have the facility to place an audio clip in between frames, so if they're working on 24, 25 or 29.97 they can't simply just place a beat or an edit exactly where it might be required, like I can do in Protools.

sounds like youre talking thru a wow wow pedal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-M3zWrTqKc

hey good news - i'm halping lpc!

that is rad! this sounds like it would be a very fun project! i can't wait to see the results.

It has always vexed me that some professional editing programs like Avid Media Composer and suchlike don't have the facility to place an audio clip in between frames

most commercial video editors & compositors (hate AE's timeline) i have used i find have insufficient timeline control imo except Premiere and FCP where you can at least advance and edit easily by one frame at a time. im not sure audio can live in between frames without editing the code of the video file itself outside of a program. one time i was playing around w Data Moshing and the trick behind that is to remove keyframes and have the codec itself generate the video image given the gap between the last previous keyframes and the next image. there was an open source program i used to do this but i forgot what it was.

the first two sections that i'm working on appear to be 157 BPM (in fact, i'm almost certain it's more like 157.4 BPM) and 143 BPM, respectively. at 30 frames per second, this means that 1 beat = .382165 seconds = 11.46 frames ,and 4 beats = 1.5286 seconds = 45.86 frames

are you doing this frame-by-frame w stop motion animation? what is your framerate? 29.97 or 30/Xfps? i used to use a Windows program called CoolEdit to assist with marking off frames. it is an audio editor and it displays time on the x axis as usual but you can switch between minutes/seconds and video frames w support for different framerates. you just set it to what you need and play the sound file (and/or look for the changes visually) and it displays it in fps. good look! this type of animation is very work-intensive but visually very rewarding!

funny, i have been hearing people irl and online talk about Longmont over the past few weeks. imo his legend is growing...

good look!

lol good luck

good look! haha

the larger project (i'm only making a short interlude for it) is 30 fps. it won't be too big of a deal to make things line up (i'm using premiere for the video editing). it it were entirely my own project, i'd just edit the audio slightly to make it align with the 30 fps visuals, but since i'm working to a pre-existing audio track (at 157 bpm, followed by a 143 bpm section that then gradu ally gets sl o w e r) it'll be a little bit trickier. but no big deal. i think the worst case scenario is that my visual cuts will, on occasion, be less than 1/30th of a second off of the barline of the audio. i was just kinda 420 last night so i temporarily got really into calculating exactly off it would be. :)

"thats the reason why we instituted this 89 dollar penalty to dissuade folks from going buckwild!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9USR4w0orxQ&t=8s

this finally got put on youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pBCswy8bRk

new longmont

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlsAVzev5qU

"I got a little bit of this conversation on tape, so we'll see..."

"We'll play it at your funeral, how's that sound"

"dude it's longmont potion castle"

longmont can be incredibly mean spirited, but somehow i still can't help but laugh

the Super Nintendo one where he's telling the suicidal kid "I don't see why such a bright young man would want to end it all so soon" and then 30 seconds later "I really enjoyed talking to you. I'm gonna kick you in the jaw young man. With my foot-uhhhhhhhhh"

"if you come into my puffin' parlor, i'm gonna come out whuppin'"

that's like the quintessential LPC sentence

hedgehog
hedge fund
hedge clippings
leap frog
egg nogg
yule log
warthog

I've been walking around singing 'where joo git yer dahn-keeee' since I first heard this

LPC is one of those fairly rate things that I wished I could like, but must admit I don't

rare not rate

well why don't you rate my boot touchin yer lip?

hey man, you ready to feel my grip?

you could come over here with my barbells, get things real flamed out

omg he calls Peter Weller on the new one lol

i tried shooting you over an email but it said it got bounced back cause there's a diphthong in my name

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XU-YvtGE8w

had a 9 hour road trip and we listened to LPC the whole time, super great

this one in particular killed me. so many more that I can't remember the names of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ja2-98e7KfI

"if you come into my puffin' parlor, i'm gonna come out whuppin'"

it really is perfect road trip material

"if you come into my puffin' parlor, i'm gonna come out whuppin"

lol this is forever in my head

i love the voice he uses in the second call here. i got a big meetin' tamarrruh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVXPBitB2rY

listening to the early calls today. his voice was so different and young and innocent. its cute.

yeah doesn't even sound like the same person to me. he went from a 20 year old kid to a 50 year old man overnight

There’s nothin to deny young man

His early stuff he was like 16 I think! Which makes me think of the Super Nintendo sketch where he’s like “I used to think I wouldn’t make it past 23 ... and now I’m a 70 year old man”

this has LPC vibes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le0me6my4B8

lmao totally

"yeah little shots of coffee, somethin' nice and dark"

been re-listening to all my Orb albums lately and suddenly I hear "do you mind if I maneuver your donuts?"

actually the second LPC sample I've indentified on an Orb album. there are probably more.

Oh cool

Tear production never fails to make me roll laughing

I NEED A BROOM

My friend swore he got a call from him today — !