The whole thing is begging to be sped up into a two-minute YouTube video set to Benny Hill music.
Here he perfected his mature horn style, a New Orleans sound broken down into what Brothers calls a "microscopic level of blues phrasing" sped up into a "dazzling melodic flow" of "weird, crazy, and eccentric figures".
The Hopi title translates as "life out of balance," and there is no dialogue or characters -- just an arresting collage of images that contrasts the pristine beauty of the sky and the wilderness with the chaos of city life, often sped up into a hypnotic swirl.
The verses are punctuated by repeated, terse instructions ("cut", "clip", "sew") and intakes of breath ("okay"), as if the arguments surrounding the events, from utopian hope ("can't we just share") to liberal mitigation ("conditions of welfare / happiness unknown to some"), have been sped up into a rapid confusion.
Their daily functions are photographed over a period of several hours, then sped up into a time-lapse sequence.
Here you can see a "making of" clip in which the whole process is sped up into three super intense minutes.
The sounds are real seismic data taken from 8 seismometers on a great circle around the globe, and sped up into the sonic range.
There were some sweet moments: his opening salute to the flag and her nod to him, the side kicks toward the end, the part where they sped up into a little run, the ending dip -- well, the whole thing was sweet.
"...When the leading British line was within 100 yards, the rattle of [German] machine guns and rifle fire broke out from along the whole line... Red rockets sped up into the blue sky as a signal to the artillery, and immediately afterwards a mass of shells from the German batteries in [the] rear tore through the air and burst among the advancing lines".
This can help ensure that you remain at a constant speed of your choosing, and helps prevent accelerating when an agitating driver is trying to "push" you into speeding up.
