Is the brick encrusted with jewels?
OK, so it’s made, at least in part, from materials too rare or expensive to routinely make bricks from, but one would not know that just from seeing the video of the brick.
Is the rare or expensive material precious (e.g., gold, silver, gems)?
Is the rare or expensive material a metal?
Is the rare or expensive material some sort of ash?
And, heck, I’ll go ahead and make a guess here: Is it made from the cremated remains of some notable person?
Is the brick encrusted with jewels?NO
OK, so it’s made, at least in part, from materials too rare or expensive to routinely make bricks from, but one would not know that just from seeing the video of the brick.
Is the rare or expensive material precious (e.g., gold, silver, gems)?NO
Is the rare or expensive material a metal?NO
Is the rare or expensive material some sort of ash?YES
And, heck, I’ll go ahead and make a guess here: Is it made from the cremated remains of some notable person?NO
The brick is a work of art or artistic expression, deliberately using some sort of rare or expensive ash?
Is the ash dangerous?
Is the brick an expression of political or environmental ideals?
OK, then, are the ashes from some notable fire?
Are the ashes from a deliberate human-caused event?
Are the ashes from a natural event?
Specifically, are the ashes from a volcanic eruption?
Is the music …
… composed / recorded specifically for this video? Or a recording that already existed?
… clearly related to the brick? (Like, it’s a song about bricks, or about the material from which the brick is made?)
… a piece that the average American would recognize?
… associated with a specific movie or show?
Are there words? Or is it just instrumental music?
The brick is a work of art or artistic expression, deliberately using some sort of rare or expensive ash? YES
Is the ash dangerous? NO
Is the brick an expression of political or environmental ideals? MAYBE to the first, NO to the second
OK, then, are the ashes from some notable fire? YES
Are the ashes from a deliberate human-caused event? YES
Are the ashes from a natural event? NO
Specifically, are the ashes from a volcanic eruption? No
Is the music …
… composed / recorded specifically for this video? NO
Or a recording that already existed? YES
… clearly related to the brick? (Like, it’s a song about bricks, or about the material from which the brick is made?) NO
… a piece that the average American would recognize? YES
… associated with a specific movie or show? YES
Are there words? Or is it just instrumental music?YES, words
I heard about people burning a million dollars as an artistic statement. Is it the ashes from that?
Ding Ding Ding!!!
In 1994 musicians/artists Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty aka the K foundation aka the KLF aka the JAM, burnt a million pounds sterling representing most of the profits they’d made with their music as the JAM and the KLF, in a bonfire on the island of Jura in Scotland. A brick was made out of the ashes of the bonfire, and a filmshowing simply the brick sitting there was screened at the Barbican Center a few years later. There’s also, somewhat more famously a film about the actual bonfire itself, but that would have been too easy 
The men pledged at the time not to talk about why they burnt the money for 23 years (a number probably chosen deliberately, given their Illuminatus-inspired body of work) but they didn’t quite keep to it, and there’s an extent to which they may not clearly understand it themselves. “Performance Art” is definitely part of the answer though
Also of note - the K foundation are back to their brick-making ways again at the moment, and still all about the Illuminati, so you can’t say they’re not consistent.
Stan was just sitting there, holding his pencil, minding his own business. A moment later, there was a crack. A moment after that, he was dead. How did he die?
Note: If you know, please keep this one secret and do not provide hints.
Was the crack thunder? Was he electrocuted?
Was the crack a gunshot?
Was the crack something breaking? Ice?
Was Stan’s mode death related to the exact nature of the crack? Did the crack cause his death?
Was the crack a sound or a physical break in an object?
Was Stan at work? at school? at home?
Was Stan a male human?
Adult?
Child?
Did Stan exist in real life as opposed to literature?
Was the pencil a writing instrument containing a thin rod of graphite?
Was the crack related to the pencil?
Did the pencil make a cracking sound?
Did the pencil break?
Was the pencil related to Stan’s death?
Had he been holding something else, would he have lived?
Stan was just sitting there, holding his pencil, minding his own business. A moment later, there was a crack. A moment after that, he was dead. How did he die?
I think I got everything asked so far.
Did this happen in ancient times?
Ancient Rome?
Was it the crack of a whip?
NO to everything here.
Would Stan’s death be considered an accident?
Natural causes?
Suicide?
Murder?
Homicide-but-not-murder (e.g. being killed in a war?)
Would it help to know more about the time period when this takes place?
Would it help to know more about the location?
kk
Was Stan indoors? Outdoors?
In a City? the country? Suburb?
Did something fall on Stan? Did Stan fall to his death?
Did Stan die because he wasn’t paying attention to the crack sound?
A side question, did you describe the pencil as made with a thin rod of lead (vs graphite) because this happened in 1902?