August 28, 2010
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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August 24, 2010
I Can’t Stand Sultans of Swing, a mash-up between The Police and Dire Straits, is the magic of Mark Vidler (aka Go Home Productions). I had first heard of Smells Like Rockin’ Robin (a mashup between Nirvana and the Jackson 5), but got sucked in to the rest of the site. Not only has he made a ton of videos,…
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August 18, 2010
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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June 21, 2010
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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May 29, 2010
[via Coudal] Related: Black Keys @ the Metro
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May 26, 2010
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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April 22, 2010
Funny, ridiculous and messy! The best phrase I can think of to describe this video is “crescendo of chaos.” Directed by Spike Jonze, I’m hoping this brings about a chuckle or two this morning. Things start to really get cooking around 1:21. [via Coudal]
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March 14, 2010
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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March 3, 2010
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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February 15, 2010
This is absolutely hysterical. I’ve been laughing non-stop, ever since I found out about Rock Sugar, a metal band that’s been shipwrecked on an island since 1989. During that time, all they had to listen to was the 80’s pop CD collection of a 13 year old girl. They’ve been rescued, they’re back… and they’re ready to rock. The full…
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January 4, 2010
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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August 13, 2009
Taken from The Pet Sounds Sessions, this clip is a version of “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” with the Beach Boys singing (and no backing music whatsoever).
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May 22, 2009
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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January 26, 2009
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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July 16, 2006
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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