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Offline funky49

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funky49 to rap for FERMILAB, travel there, shoot video
« on: June 13, 2009, 08:44:31 AM »
These two things came together yesterday.

That's riiiiiiiiiiight! A physicist at Fermilab (outside of Chicago), home to the US's biggest particle accelerator, commissioned funky49 to create a rap song about their lab! The head of their PR department loves the lyrics and they are working out how to get my flown up to Fermilab to shoot a video and give a speech on science outreach to children! Yes, that is your tax dollars at work!



Just as juicy, I contacted a filmmaker acquaintance in Chicago who offered up thousands of dollars of equipment and talent to make the music video possible! A professional video shoot and editing!!!

The physicist at Fermilab wanted a rap song for them after seeing this music video for CERN's Large Hadron Collider (which has over 5 million hits!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM

My scientist patron is Dr. Kilminster who is the young scientist in this PBS documentary that collects Simpsons figures. He's awesome! http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/atomsmashers/

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Re: funky49 to rap for FERMILAB, travel there, shoot video
« Reply #1 on: June 14, 2009, 01:23:15 AM »
That's pretty cool, how did that come about?
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Re: funky49 to rap for FERMILAB, travel there, shoot video
« Reply #2 on: June 16, 2009, 09:30:37 AM »
A physicist from Fermilab saw the MOSI/Rapbassdor writeup on http://www.scientificblogging.com/alternate_allele/finally_science_rap_music_children !
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Re: funky49 to rap for FERMILAB, travel there, shoot video
« Reply #3 on: August 04, 2009, 03:49:28 PM »
Air, hotel, car rental.. all booked. I'll be leaving for Chicago soon. This is going to be awesome.
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Re: funky49 to rap for FERMILAB, travel there, shoot video
« Reply #4 on: August 04, 2009, 11:43:02 PM »
Quote from: funky49 on August 04, 2009, 03:49:28 PM
Air, hotel, car rental.. all booked. I'll be leaving for Chicago soon. This is going to be awesome.

Nice work. I'll be up in Chi town later this month too :)
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Re: funky49 to rap for FERMILAB, travel there, shoot video
« Reply #5 on: August 05, 2009, 10:02:38 AM »
WHEN>???
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Re: funky49 to rap for FERMILAB, travel there, shoot video
« Reply #6 on: August 05, 2009, 12:33:50 PM »



I ordered myself another set of funky49 business cards... now with renegade's photography and photoshop skills (hidden NCC-1701 FTW!) and krad leet googlevoice/twitter contact info!
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Re: funky49 to rap for FERMILAB, travel there, shoot video
« Reply #7 on: August 05, 2009, 05:46:58 PM »
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Re: funky49 to rap for FERMILAB, travel there, shoot video
« Reply #8 on: August 05, 2009, 05:52:46 PM »
That's soo weird, I plan on eating a Chicago Style hot dog around the same time.

Symmetry!!!
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Re: funky49 to rap for FERMILAB, travel there, shoot video
« Reply #9 on: August 05, 2009, 07:18:32 PM »
weird dude, that's the name of their online mag

http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/cms/

mmm... hot dogs!
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Re: funky49 to rap for FERMILAB, travel there, shoot video
« Reply #10 on: August 05, 2009, 07:20:26 PM »
Quote from: funky49 on August 05, 2009, 07:18:32 PM
weird dude, that's the name of their online mag

http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/cms/

mmm... hot dogs!

Now this is just getting spooky!!
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Re: funky49 to rap for FERMILAB, travel there, shoot video
« Reply #11 on: August 05, 2009, 08:06:52 PM »
another word for spooky is strange!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_quark

which is the name of a quark!!!
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Re: funky49 to rap for FERMILAB, travel there, shoot video
« Reply #12 on: August 05, 2009, 09:59:07 PM »
http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Independent_Lens_The_Atom_Smashers/70109415?lnkctr=srchrd-sr&strkid=662579070_0_0&strackid=1eb13c8c76f3f2d9_0_srl

Netflixers! Check out The Atom Smashers! One of the scientists they follow is the guy that asked me to rap for Fermilab. Dr. Ben Kilminster. He's the rock band fronting, beer drinking, spikey hair, cool physicist in the documentary.

Or you can bit torrent this...
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Re: funky49 to rap for FERMILAB, travel there, shoot video
« Reply #13 on: August 06, 2009, 12:35:44 PM »
Wow, that's really cool Steve!  Great job!

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Re: funky49 to rap for FERMILAB, travel there, shoot video
« Reply #14 on: August 07, 2009, 11:13:32 AM »
Dude post the JAM!!! I wanna hear it. I love your stuff, it survived my Great iPod Holocaust of 2009.

post it.
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