Articles Tagged with: Dan Lamoureux
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Unfortunately I didn’t win but I TRULY appreciate your support and views during the contest! Thank you!! Presented on Youtube in HD for the first time is the contest entry.
It’s here to save the world and promote science!
Particle Business!
Free mp3 for Particle Busines
Lyrics for which Symmetry Magazine has a breakdown of:
[chorus]
Rock stars of physics, particle business
smash matter, anti-matter and witness
quarks, bottom to top
they don’t stop
“Where the Higgs at?”
Yo that’s their mark!
Go! Go! Go!
[verse 1]
Tevatron, OG atom smasher
Say Hello to CERN’s party crasher
The new ‘Lord of the Rings’ LHC hear me
This be competitive collaboration baby
Strippin’ electrons, makin ions
Of hydrogen, now pull that proton
Give it that speed we need to make
Real Science get achieved, I believe
Shock protons, Greatly accelerated
Two tera electron volts they rated
Fated to smash and get mated
Creatin’ smaller bits, energy still equated
We love collisions, Take snap shots
Till we set the right shot, learn a lot
Yo, a mad grip of events do occur
Blast fast, Data stream is a blur
Normal events–They get ignored
Higgs events–They get adored!
(Chorus)
[verse 2]
High over frontier. Wilson Hall tall
With aesthetics, it’s a science cathedral
For the people that see with math
Collider detector and massive graphs
DZero or CDF, who’s the best?
If pressed I guess who’s closest
To quench the measurement thirst
And who got their results in first
Collision detectors, Fermion collectors
This ain’t the 60s with pocket protectors
These peeps cool like super-conducted
Magnets, you know four nine ain’t frontin’
(Chorus)
To me, triple beams don’t mean
Pushin’ mad coke, Its scientists in lab coats
So you ready for insight twilight or limelight?
Research in basic science, I’ll fight
Who’s side you with? R&D dollars?
Or pork spending for anyone who hollas?
Brain drain. No technology policy
Ballot box for better decisions in D.C.
Rap Carl Sagan over new Vangelis Keys
Science cutter clowns get smacked down please
I’m trippin’ at students slippin’ in
Test scores, Against the world they’re dippin’
Let’s be liftin’, Positive like positrons
Before we ask where we gone wrong
Down with MTV, forget what you heard
Get lost in Cosmos and Mister Wizard
“Somewhere… something incredible is waiting to be learned” – Carl Sagan
Filmed on location in and around the tevatron at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, “Particle Business” is rapper Funky49′s hip-hop tribute to the “O.G. Atom Smasher.” The video was directed and edited by Dan Lamoureux, the filmmaker behind the Nerdcore hip-hop documentary, “Nerdcore For Life.”
Particle Business Credits:
Music – funky49 & redvoid
Shot and edited by: Dan Lamoureux
Lyrics – funky49
Guitar – c plus student
Additional vocals – Dr. Ben Kilminster
Mixed and mastered – The HT @ Studio 6, Port Orange, FL
Costume design – Christy Redd
Still from the Particle Business music video
This is a message from my friend, Dan Lameroux…
Believe it or don’t, but Nerdcore For Life is really, finally, for real coming to DVD. The unofficial target release date is November 30th. Some weeks after sales start, the movie will be available to rent via netflix. Our distributor told us that Netflix decides how many copies of a film to buy and what distribution centers to send them to based on how many people “Save” the film to their queue. So, you’ll of course be my best friend ever if you decide to buy a copy of the DVD when it comes out but if you’re more of a renter, you can also help us by heading to netflix and saving the film. And if you’ve seen the film and liked it, a 5 star rating probably wouldn’t hurt either.
http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Nerdcore_for_Life/70126787
Note: That’s not the final DVD cover. The distributor needed to give netflix something and the art wasn’t ready yet
12/16/2009 NOTE: This DVD release has been pushed back to January which will allow me to host a NC4L viewing party just after it comes out instead of a month later. This is great news!
Here’s my Fermilab Photo Album! Check them out on Flickr! I met up with Ben from the Former Fat Boys, Dan Lamoureux from the Nerdcore for Life documentary, scientists, engineers, technicians plus me and my girlfriend got to spend some time in Chicago!
I just got off the phone with the Big Wake Up Call, WBIG AM1280 out of Chicago. I totally feel like the “Fresh Prince of Batavia” again! Thank you Chicago!!!
Things went well because before the interview, I was laughing at the sports guy reporting about how the “Cougars” did last night. I made sure to plug Dan Lamoureux of Chicagoland’s Crapbot Productions. What’s odd is they didn’t ask any of the questions they sent me! I got to mention how I was taking the “triple beam scale” back from the rappers talking about cocaine and put it back into the science lab.
What is super-awesome is that earlier this morning, Jonathan Coulton was on the radio too! He was part of a music industry report on NPR.
