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The Whitest Boy Alive – Golden Cage (Fred Falke Remix)
Greatest faux-Friday work jam ever?
July22009
11AM
Jason Bough a Hatchet by Giggle Party
Ditreded by Stephen Wake (illustrator) and Damien Weighill (animator)
Reasons to reblog (aka why this is awesome):
- Darth Vader playing the drums with light sabers
- Abe Lincoln
- Sheer level of song catchiness
- Fun typography
- Magnum P.I.
- Cartoon blood
- Number of pop culture references
(plz note, vaguely NSFW and also lots of fake hatcheting it up)
11AM
FOR ORCHESTRA #9: Lady Gaga ‘Poker Face’ (via waltribeiro)
Orchestras make everything better!
July12009
Baked Sweet Potato Falafel Recipe - 101 Cookbooks
bet it’s yum.
Yeah, I wasn’t a fan. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t give it a shot yourself.
12PM
Ben Folds Presents: University A Cappella! The Documentary
“In 2009 Ben Folds released a greatest hits record, of sorts, sung entirely in a cappella. The album, Ben Folds Presents: Unviersity A Cappella! features two tracks performed by Ben himself, but the bulk of the material was performed by various university a cappella groups.”
It’s completely amazing. And basically the coolest thing ever. I’m curious to hear the result.
June292009
Video: Beirut - Live for Soirées de Poche (Le Blogotheque)
Beirut - Live for Soirées de Poche (Le Blogotheque)
Because even performance videos with extraordinary amounts of talent deserve to be watched from front to back.
June262009
This Debussy, Clair de Lune visualization is lovely. 2:05 gets me every time.
(thanks Chris! it IS mesmerizing.)
12PM
Deerhoof, ever purveyors of fine music videos, recently released a new video for their song My Purple Past. Instead of taking a song, taping themselves singing with it and then synching audio over it, they took a different approach. One I haven’t seen before.
The music video displays different ways in which listeners experience Deerhoof’s music: On laptop speakers, playing from a record player, from headphones. And the audio is left as is. So what you get is a study on the various audio formats that music is enjoyed. Facinating.
Now if only someone would make a VERY meta music video of all the places we watch My Purple Past…
Hats off to Asha Schechter for directing this great, creative vision.
“Big ups” to TRMW for posting this on twitter. I LOVE what the director did with it. And you know? Even though the audio quality is disjointed, the song is still fantastic. Because honestly, should music videos always sound just like the MP3?
