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Channel: Nicolas Maeder
Date: 02/10/2013

Conceived on September 13, 2013 on one of Center High School's computers with an estimated 200 crimson red frames, "CXCII"'s number of frames was cut down to 192 after production began, hence the title being "192" as a roman numeral. The frames were distorted with effects so they appear grungy albeit digital, the ramification being the blacks gone red borders and crimsons gone empty darkness. Despite the production mostly taking place in Windows Movie Maker, then 17-year old C. N. Maeder (then Anders Stereo) used enough effects to make it look like it's not done in WMM at all. Then YouTube suggested he'd stabilize "CXCII," but it turns out the screwed-up fixation of the shakiness made it shakier...

...and BETTER.

Prior to watching this minimalist avant-garde art YouTube short film by Anders Stereo, we see an intro of half-drunk appetite kick-started (DO NOT confuse this with crowdfunding website Kickstarter) by a surge of 8 rapid-fire frames variously depicting "anders stereo" in random letters, characters, and numbers, glued to a unique sound effect and killed off by a grungy & grainy segment with the text "anders stereo presents: CXCII (CNM3)."

The experimental soundtrack (appearing in the intro, in the movie, and in the outro) is "Mummifyed F!sh Ch1pz," created in Audacity as an industrialized version of "Triangle Face," an original Twitter photo appearing behind his user profile photo.

"CXCII" was uploaded on the day the U.S. federal government shut down for the 18th time since 1976. I initially didn't believe it until hearing the news about the shutdown, and it's such a weird coincidence that the completion and uploading of this odd video took place there.

Yes, an old version of CXCII exists, published the same day as this one, but a couple hours earlier than this new version. Here's the short URL: http://youtu.be/PRcGs72qD4Q

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