Posts Tagged "music video"

Glenn Gould: Bach, Goldberg Variations, 26-30

I first heard of Glenn Gould after seeing a movie entitled Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould – a series of vignettes highlighting certain moments and aspects of his brillian career (and eccentric lifestyle). I don’t know a ton of Gould’s work, but I’m most familiar with his Goldberg Variations album. It’s strange, but whenever I hear this I’m…

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Three Music Videos by Michel Gondry

I was recently reminded of a few music videos by Michel Gondry, and decided I needed to share some of my favorites. Way back in 2003, when we were still working at the Merchandise Mart, our office was housed inside the Q101 radio station. We knew folks in the Marketing and Promotions department, and every once in a while would…

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Star Trek, Tik Tok: Silly, Nerdy Video Mashup

This is hilarious, even if this was the first time I’ve heard of Kesha or the song Tik Tok. The mind boggles at how well someone needs to know Star Trek, to be able to pull off a video edited in this manner. So nerdy, and so fantastic! [via @sakri] Related: Star Trek in the Office Khaan! Video Loop of…

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Across the Universe: Covers by Rufus Wainwright and Fiona Apple

Recently I’ve been listening to the Rufus Wainwright cover of Across the Universe. All day today I’ve ben looping it a bit in the background, over and over. Randomly, I happened across a video on YouTube featuring a cover of the song by Fiona Apple. It was made for the movie Pleasantville, that movie where everything and everyone is in…

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Celebrate Pi Day (3/14) with a Pi Day Song

Normally on Pi Day (3/14), I tend to get a fair amount of traffic to this site. A link to an old Flash project of mine gets passed around, and lots of folks tend to come by for a visit. About 8 years ago, I made a Flash experiment called pi10k, where people can assign musical notes to specific numbers……

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This Too Shall Pass: OK Go’s Rube Goldberg Machine

Via BoingBoing, this is a pretty impressive Rube Goldberg Machine, built by the band OK Go for their music video This Too Shall Pass. I’m a big fan of these types of machines (and even got a great book from Justin about Rube Goldberg’s life and art, over the holidays). In an earlier apartment, I went so far as to…

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Music Video Using High School Yearbooks: Seventeen (by Matt Kresling)

Made using his old yearbooks from high school, Matt Kresling has a pretty great loking music video for his song Seventeen. Though I’m not totally in love with the music, I dig the lyrics… and the video aspect really blew me away. Imagining all the different shots that were required, even before the production work started, is a little mind-blowing….

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Stop Motion Videos

Inspired by a pretty brilliant stop-motion film called Sorry I’m Late, I decided to dig around, and post up several stop-motion films/videos. Happy Friday everyone… Sorry I’m Late – so good that I didn’t believe it was stop-motion until I saw the credits. Definitely check out the Making Of section. Via MeFi Her Morning Elegance – by Oren Lavie. Process…

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Listening to Rilo Kiley, Thinking About Ukeleles

Over my vacation, as I was working on the computer… I was listening to a lot of Rilo Kiley (Official Site | Wikipedia). I’m not sure who originally turned me on to them (I think it was either TJ or Masha). But I was looping the crap out of their “More Adventures” album, and really started getting hooked on their…

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Hallelujah: Norwegian Variation

I came across this great MetaFilter post about a recent cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah.” It’s done by four Norwegians (I think): Kurt Nilsen, Espen Lind, Askil Holm and Alejandro Fuentes. Their voices are amazing, and some really great moments (I like Fuentes’ voice a great deal, and Nilsen’s crescendo when he kicks it up gives me the shivers). I…

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