28 thoughts on ““Storm”: a skeptical animation by Tim Minchin”

  1. Him not doing this song was one of the few complaints I have about the recent show of his – done with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra during (but not technically part of) the Adelaide Fringe – that I saw.

    Still, that he showed up at the Fringe artist & media bar afterwards and I got to chat to him for about ten minutes made up for that.

    I’ll stop now before I reach Kw*k levels of fanboyism…

  5. His Chicago show is coming up mid-June. I can’t wait, I’ve been waiting years to see Tim in the US.

  6. Wow, I loved this. I particularly liked the part around 7:40. That’s really how I feel, there is so much complexity and beauty in the world that already exists, why try to one-up it with a made-up reality?

  7. I saw the premiere of this at TAM London, it’s clear that a lot more work has been done on it since then.

    One weirdness at TAM was that people asked what they planned to do with the video once it was finished and nobody knew the answer. They didn’t seem to have thought about that. Which was really odd.

    Looks really great.

    1. So you are less than 3 Tim Minchins? I didn’t know humans formed an ordered ring over integers!

        1. no, no, it’s quite standard anymore; presumably Circe was just ribbing you.

          1. Actually yes 🙂 I have bad memories from a Science and Technology quiz I went to as an undergraduate. We were shown the symbols ‘<3', a unicode character code, and a graph of an elliptic curve, and were asked to connect the three.

            I guessed the answer to be "Fermat's last theorem (does not hold for n < 3, elliptic curves are used in its proof, and the unicode must have been for a character that looks like the graph of an elliptic curve). It turns out the answer was "heart" ('<3' stands for "heart", the unicode symbol was for a character that looked like a stylized "heart" and the graph of the elliptic curve also looked like a stylized "heart"). 😀

  10. The animation is nice but I really recommend people watch the live versions on Youtube. The added instrumental embellishments in the animated version are unnecessary and Minchin’s delivery on the live versions is much more powerful; in the animated version he sounds like he’s on sedatives in comparison.

    1. Better still if you get to see it actually live. I’ve seen Tim in concert five times now, if you count his TAM London performances, and he’s got funnier, more confident and more awesome each time.

      If you get the chance to see him, don’t pass it up, he’s great.

  11. I also recommend his other works. If you want to stick to some of his non faith works, I highly recommend “White Wine in the Sun”, a Christmas carol. It’s one of my favorite and will be a new tradition to listen to each year.

      1. I haven’t heard “The good book” in a while. That was a good one to listen to again. I’m really excited that Mr. Minchin is now starting to branch out into American tours. Sadly none are near me currently, but I look forward to his increasing popularity.

  12. I tried to post this but Facebook wouldn’t let me – they said it had been marked as abusive!

  13. Love the song and have been waiting for what seems like an eternity for this little film. Frankly, not pleased. Story boarding and direction are lacking. Still, a lovely little beat poem.

    1. I felt the animations was lacking as well. For as long as they spent working on this, I was a little disappointed. I do however agree that I still enjoy the poem.

  14. I find that Tim’s words and delivery are quite sufficient to conjure up the necessary imagery in my mind.
    I guess it helps if you have experienced meeting people like the ‘Storm’ character or have a reputation of being the one who goes ‘gnuclear’ at a dinner party when someone offers a religious or woo-laden morsel of conversation (“Going gnuclear” being defined as the horrendously uncouth action of saying out loud -“is there any evidence for that?”.)

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