to add to the headphone revelation series:
cornershop "heavy soup/outro" – how could I have never noticed that there’s a bass clarinet mixed in there?! amazing!
nightmares on wax, from smoker’s delight "track 1" – wow. just wow.
doors "break on through" – the use of stereo in this is fantastic! and though the music is great, JM’s voice in the middle of your head is SUPER fierce.
Beautifully shot, and a good good vibe…damn them for making me post their commercial to my blog…
sidebar: I remember at some point working at BBCA and learning AVID editing, and you know how on macs you use apple-z to undo whatever you last did? Somehow Roscoe had the great inspiration to rap to the cadence of "Good Day" but instead of "I didn’t even have to use my AK" (one of the track’s best lines) he changed it to "didn’t even have to use my apple zay"; genius, and a line I still say to myself even now when things are going well editing-wise…
I know it can be too easy to find Indian crazy stuff to laugh at, but this clip is both laughable and impressive, I swear. The flurry of dance styles, set changes, costume changes…the Michael Jackson moves, the 50’s-style women’s outfits…the computer bloops and synths…it’s really really great.
since we movedast week I haven’t been able to find the box where I packed my small headphones. so I’ve been using my big Sony pro headphones for the subway trip to work. yeah, they’re bigger and bulkier but you know, I’ve seen lots of muso heads on the subway wearing big phones so no big deal.
what is a big deal though is the way the music sounds! this is amazing, the quality is so critical, how did I ever not notice this? the rolling stones sound phenomonal, ratatat are crisp and amazing, and hip hop beats? don’t even get me started. how am I supposed to go back now? why would I?
how you gonna keep em down on the farm after they’ve seen Paris?
Having a tough tuesday? Put it all in perspective…
Ok, status check, Monday morning. I am busy packing for the big move on Wednesday. Why does it take so long? Where did all this stuff come from?
You are watching this great preview of a new BBC show where they dub voices onto nature footage. Must be the cheapest show ever, but it’s still pretty funny.
Friday morning.
taking a picture of a sleeping MTA guy on the subway, I’m reminded of being at burning man and mike h coming up with this great art project: he would take polaroids of people sleeping and then tuck the photo into their hands for them to find when they woke up. I loved it because there was something mildly creepy about it (who’s watching me while I sleep?!) and kind of beautiful too (everyone looks so innocent while they sleep). great stuff…
Are you ready for Friday?!?!?!?!
If you read some futurists, they have this theory about how fast the speed of technology progression is moving, and it looks like a graph that starts slow and then suddenly goes almost straight up. The moment where it moves from being a sloped line to going straight up is referred to as the Singularity. Once we hit that, technology will progress so fast it will seem almost instantaneous. All kinds of cool stuff to look forward to when that happens: downloading our brains into computers, sending our consciousness across the universe, etc. Some say it might happen in as little as 50 years.
Or so the theory goes.
I will say though, sometimes I feel like I’m seeing so many mind-blowers on various blogs that we must be getting close to that moment. Case in point:
[This was emailed to me from PatH, and I dunno where he got it from…]
And, far be it for me to pile it on, but I just saw this and somehow it seems to fit with the last vid and musings on the future. Our man Carl Sagan, auto-tuned to sing a fantastic and future-minded song about, what else, the Cosmos. When I watch these auto-tuned pieces, I’m always wondering how much work it took to make…
[via kottke]
until you check with the vaudevillians…
I remember seeing this routine as a kid and it stuck with me. Even watching it today I can remember the whole shtick that went along with the cube, and how amazing it was to see.
Apparently I should have seen this ages ago, but I haven’t. I will never get tired of this kind of stuff…
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