Joe Hahn's The Catalyst Notes

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    Joe

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    During the making of The Catalyst video you may have noticed directorial notes the team were using as a focus point to drive the creative process. LPA member Jesse has exclusively transcribed them for the LPA and you can read them below for some interesting insight to the video.

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    A THOUSAND SUNS.

    A TREATMENT FOR WARNER BROTHERS RECORDS BY JOE HAHN

    The inspiration for this video comes from J. Robert Oppenheimer's reaction to the world's first nuclear explosion in New Mexico.

    In an effort to verbalize what was then indescribable, he quoted a passage from the Bhagavad Gita, the classic Vedic text:

    "If the radiance of a thousands suns were to burst forth at once in the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One. I am mighty, world-destroying Time"

    When an atom splits it releases other neutrons, and he was quick to realize that under the right conditions those neutrons could go on to split other atoms in a chain reaction.

    This would lead to one of two things: a steady generation of energy in the form of heat or a huge explosion.

    If each splitting atom caused one released neutron to split another atom, the chain reaction was said to be "critical" and would create a steady release of that energy.

    But if each fission event released two, three, or more neutrons that went on to split other atoms, the chain reaction was deemed "super critical" and would rapidly cascade into an almost instantaneous, massive, explosive release of energy.

    My goal with this video is to encapsulate the sentiment of the next LINKIN PARK album and our new direction; we will not perform in (undecipherable....) ... in videos of the past.

    This video will show the power of the singular vs. the power of the multitude. The Intention of splitting an atom was to generate nuclear fission. Inspired by the power of a single atom splitting can emit the power of a thousand suns. The beauty of destruction.

    We will show this graphically by distorting images playing between high resolution and low resolution. We will break down pictures to metamorphosize a recognizable form into beautiful imagery.

    We live in a world of technology. The advancement of man has allowed us to live in luxury. The flipside is that the more laced that everything has a consequence.

    Source: Thanks to Jesse
     
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    EDITED. ERROR CORRECTED!

    I see science in these notes
     
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    Zomg Science!

    but yea very interesting and i cant wait for the video!
     
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    Linkin Park is learning their history. That much is certain, haha.

    Thanks Jesse! Should be a great video! A half hour left :)
     
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    punkkidskater

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    this is very insightful. the way the album is "connected", i wonder if the videos themselves will be connected by some common visual or something.
     
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    Thanks a lot of this Jesse. Insightful for sure :) Thanks for taking the time to transcribe it :) :)
     
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    i hope somthing better than numb heheh
     
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    nosebleed.
     
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    I actually like those kind of videos. It's much more original than just showing the band singing with cute affects *cough* New Divide *cough*. I hope this video won't be like that.
     
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    There's nothing else to say besides bad-fucking-ass.
     
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    15 minutes til we see this beauty.
     
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    EDITED. ERROR CORRECTED!

    Even more science in these notes.
     
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    i don't think we will see the video after 10 min
    that's Impossible i don't no whay
    it just ammmmm..... nothing heheh
     
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    "riddance" should be "radiance"
     
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    Yeah, what he said. :lol:

    I typed this all out in about 3 minutes, so there's bound to be mistakes. :lol:
     
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    Damn a cigarette for Mr hahn, Deep shit .
     
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    I remember when people thought I was crazy on the LPU for my theories of The Catalyst referring to nuclear fission.

    WHO'S LAUGHING NOW FUCKERS. AAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
     
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    I've thought ATS was nuclear influenced since the second message with the Oppenheimer quote lol.
     
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    The splitting of atoms excites me. Fusion and fission my friends. Fission a.k.a. Linkin Park. Fusion a.k.a. Rick Astley. By the way, if any of you get a chance to take an intro to nuclear engineering class, do it - you won't regret. Now, someone go figure out how to get a positive and controlled energy output from nuclear fusion.
     
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    LinkinParkForever275

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    wow nice to read :)
     
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