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Month: January, 2009

Video: Joaquin Phoenix rapping and falling off a stage

Is that really Joaquin Phoenix? If so, I empathize with his lack of balance, but applaud his magnificent beard.

[earsucker]

Video: Trailer for “Mellodrama” documentary

A documentary about the rise and fall of the mellotron.

[coudal]

Links for 1.18.09: Obama’s BlackBerry, Springsteen’s album, firefighters’ masks…

*Social music: Last.fm reports 204% growth in U.S. unique visitors for 2008.

*Boss: For those of you who like Bruce Springsteen, you can get hear his new album, “Working on a Dream” in its entirety when it debuts on NPR just before midnight tonight.

*Tools: These vintage firefighters’ masks aren’t some bullshit fictionalized version of a mechanical past. They’re REAL, motherfuckers. And they are awesome. I would also check out this radiowave helmet.

*Midwest: Stereogum points out that one Bon Iver has a new song, “Brackett, WI,” available. From here on, you can cut off a finger every time I mention Bon Iver. (That’s my way of saying I’m sorry.)

*Memorabilia: In efforts to take advantage of this week’s inauguration hype, one company is making necklaces out of portions of recycled ballots from the 2008 elections. It’s also offering framed ballots as posters. (I wonder how much a framed Lizard People ballot from the Minnesota Senate election would fetch.) [treehugger]

*Politics update: Barack Obama: Still smoking. Still using a BlackBerry.

*Twitter: Marvelously pithy. Goodbye.

Video: Blitzen Trapper’s “Furr”

Like, drawings and shit.

Video: Fleet Foxes on SNL

Fleet Foxes perform “Mykonos” on SNL. Hilarious retro-tech, captioned video.

[peefork]

Video: The T-Mobile Dance @ the Liverpool Street Station

It should be noted that I owe T-Mobile nearly $100.

[vvc]

Links for 1.17.09: Painted books, pictures of records, Legos of history…

*Art: Painting books is a lot like watching videos of phonographs. “In the end, these paintings stand against loss and for reverie, memory, optimism, desire, and love,” says the artist of his work.

*Records: View one woman’s K-Tel record collection through the lens of Flickr. [murketing]

*Film: Pitchfork.tv is allowing access to the movie “Joy Division” in its entirety on their site for the next week. [hypetrak]

*Communications: A website whereupon Ze Frank talks about what he does – Posts are titled “Awareness of Audience” or “Central personae vs. algorithm.”

*Economics: 95% of music downloads are illegal. [tds]

*Politics: Tuesday’s presidential inauguration has been precreated in Legos. (PRECREATED? Did I just? Did I?)

*I feel like I should have added more context to all these links, but I was too tired. If it’s possible for you to do, you should trust me – they’re good. Thank you.

Video: Bar Planet and the distance between reality and recollection

For a long time I’ve been fascinated with the distance between recollection and reality when it comes to art, and have been noodling around on ways to play with that gap. Sometimes we play a game around the house: Recall that plot in 1 minute or less. “The Brothers Karamazov” – GO! What inevitably follows is 40% insight into the piece in question, 40% insight into the person telling the story and 20% totally erroneous garbage. It’s great.

(FTR: “So there were these three brothers. Well, three and a half. One was angry and drunk, one was smart and one was religious. There was a monk whose dead body stank. Someone murdered someone. Then everyone got drunk. Then Ivan got sick. Then maybe the dad died? Some guy got his beard pulled. Something with a whore or a young consort-type woman. Then Alyosha prayed. Then I cried and cried and cried.”)

It’d be fun to capture and measure the delta between experience and literal reality when it comes to art, whether through a site with a simple text box that pops up a work of art and challenges the reader to summarize it within 1 minute or even a video aggregator with a similar goal.

Anyway, cool video.

more about "Video: Bar Planet", posted with vodpod

[gf]

Video: Daft Punk vs. Adam Freeland “Aer OBAMA”

This video has Daft Punk, toys, Barack Obama, music, a Speak ‘n’ Spell and weird light FX. OK?

Links for 1.14.09: Rock vases, heavy metal flowcharts and acid trips…

*Furnishings: Holy awesome! Check out these rock and roll vases from Legarage Pierreblanc – Thrasher, AC/DC, KISS and more! But are they garish enough?! [eyeteeth]

*Charts: Holy awesome! Check out this flowchart for Heavy Metal band names! What wonderful RSS reader have I stumbled upon this evening?!? [coudal]

*Drugs: I have never taken (or “dropped”) acid. If any fine listenerd readers HAVE done so, could you please let me know if this site simulates the experience? Also, I watched this thing for 10 minutes and feel like vomiting. And not just in my mouth. [lisa]

*Alternative Reality Politics: How have the last 8 years under President Al Gore really been? [snarkmarket]

*CES: One of the coolest things I saw at CES was EasyBloom’s Plant Sensor, a gadget that you place in a prospective gardening spot and leave for 24 hours. You then bring it in, plug it into your USB port and it will tell you what vegetation you should or should not plant in your chosen spot based on soil, moisture, and temperature conditions. And it looks like a flower.

*Location: Last.fm has added an event mapper that will recommend to you concerts and the like in your area. [duke listens]

*Local: The St. Paul Saints are planning an outdoor baseball game – an “icebreaker” for February 28th. It was -17 yesterday.

*Fame: If you are mental, you may enjoy reading CelebrityTweet, a Twitter that’s only for famous people. [mashable] Also: Pithy.

Video: More “Pork and Beans”

Weezer offers up a remixed video for “Pork and Beans,” with some new internet stars.

Perhaps the video will be updated annually.

[peefork]

Video: Barenaked Ladies “One Week” parody

From College Humor.

Video: Neil Young’s “Fork in the Road”

I also have a potbelly.

Video: The Evolution of Dance 2

770k views? Call me when you hit 85 bazillion, please.

Bitches.

(I have no clue.)

[waxy]

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