Stairway to St. Paul

The guy in the photo is Jeroen Offerman... He is an artist... that made a wonderful short that I watched once in TV. In the video he sings Stairway to heaven of Led Zeppelin backwards. So... when the video starts... he just finished to sing... So when the video finish... he is starting to sing... All is related with an urban legend telling that Stairway to Heaven had a Satanic message...

Jeroen is all the time erasing the video from the internet... this is the reason that is not in youtube... In this post I enclose two links... if you read this and the links do not work... try to look in google his name... and or Stairway to St Paul, the name of the video... Because, believe me, it is worth.


El tío de la foto es Jeroen Offerman. Él es el un artista, el que hizo este corto que una vez vi en Metropolis. En el video el canta Stairway to heaven de Led Zeppelin, al revés. Así, cuando el video empieza, el acab de terminar de cantar... y cuando el video acaba, está empezando. El muchacho no quiere que su video esté libremente en la internet... con lo que lo va borrando, y por eso por ejemplo no está en youtube. Si estás leyendo esto y los links de abajo no funcionan... buscalo como sea... porque merece la pena.


The links:

http://www.adnstream.tv/video/mazNfoQliF/Jeroen-Offerman-Stairway-at-St-Pauls-reversed


http://videosift.com/video/Jeroen-Offerman-Stairway-at-St-Pauls-unbelievable

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Jeroen Offerman: Stairway at St. Paul's (unbelievable)

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wow...

written by plastiquemonkey

Hmm... Get a job hippy! Seriously, j/k. That must've taken a lot of free time to get right. I can only imagine what he does as a day-job.

written by KnivesOut

fantastical, i loved it!

written by CalamityKate

I have so many questions about this! Was he playing the karaoke version backwards to sing along with? Does his normal, forwards voice have such a distinct accent? In either Le Ton Beau De Marot or Metamagical Themas, Douglas Hofstadter writes at length about his efforts when he was younger to learn to speak reverse English fluently and without an accent. To be sure, there are certain sounds that are impossible to replicate naturally, but if I recall correctly he wrote that with much practice, he was able to get the accent correct for a lot of words/phrases, etc. Thinking more about it, I'm almost certain that it was in Le Ton Beau de Marot, because he gets pretty heavily into accents for a few chapters. What does a person speaking german with a french accent sound like? What does a person speaking Italian with a Japanese accent sound like? Etc. Great clip.

written by djsunkid

Oh yes, that leads to another question as well- would a person with say a Dutch accent, speaking English backwards have a different accent than say the same passage said by a native french speaker? Very interesting questions, i think.

written by djsunkid

I love how his accent comes through even backwards. Very cool.

written by vermonter

kewl, now Yvan eht Noij

written by joedirt

awesome !

written by deathcow

he sings it better backwards than I could forwards

written by deathcow

I like it and its a job very well done, but I don't know if I would call it awe-inspiring.

written by southblvd

That didn't work very well...

written by SaNdMaN

*dead

written by rickegee

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