Saturday 30 May 2009

Playing with Pink Noise - Kaki King on TED

Kaki King, the first female on Rolling Stone's "guitar god" list, rocks out to a full live set at TED2008, including her breakout single, "Playing with Pink Noise." Jaw-dropping virtuosity meets a guitar technique that truly stands out.

...TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate. Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10

Thursday 28 May 2009

Wednesday 27 May 2009

Weeds

...fascinating and informative viral ad for the new season...

Tuesday 26 May 2009

Tesla Sings...


ArcAttack and Craig Newswanger of Resonance Studios present "Creepy Circus Song"
http://www.arcattack.com/

Musical Tesla Coils by ArcAttack.

Video edited with Ubuntu Studio and Cinelerra.

Robotic Drummer and PVC Pipe Organ by Craig Newswanger.

Special thanks to Steve Ward.

Sunday 24 May 2009

Expialidicious - Fagottron

...ALL HAIL FAGOTTRON!...

Video for my track 'Expialidocious'. The track is composed of a sine wave bass, custom drum sequences, and sounds recorded from the Disney film 'Mary Poppins'.

TURN ON! with Bea and Rock!!!

...WOW, i'm speechless!!!...

GO GIRLZ 4 DECADES!
GAY ICONS SINGING AN ODE TO RECREATIONAL AND HABITUAL FOR THAT MATTER DRUG USE. SNIFF SWIG PUFF AND YOUR CARES ARE GONE. TABOO, NEVER. AMERICAN TV IN THE 1970'S. PEACE.

Thursday 21 May 2009

Alternative Freedom

...A documentary about the invisible war on culture...

...While Congress changes our copyright laws under the behests of a few powerful corporations, individuals across the United States are losing their digital rights. Activists are working together to change this oppressive regime and create an alternative of freedom. Two filmmakers uncover the most important legal battles of our time: Copyright Law and Digital Rights Management. Featuring interviews with DJ Danger Mouse, Lawrence Lessig and more. FEATURES: DANGER MOUSE, ANDREW "BUNNIE" HUANG, LAWRENCE LESSIG, JASON SCHULTZ, RICHARD STALLMAN, DOSEONE

Wednesday 20 May 2009

Sunday 17 May 2009

DangerHorse - Daddy's gone


...Music: Daddy's Gone by Danger Mouse And Sparklehorse featuring Nina Persson (The Cardigans / A Camp)
From: 'Dark Night Of The Soul' album (2009)
This is not an official video.
Footage made with video of director Ulf Rollof
Editing: Emma Hvengaard & Jonas Goldmann...

Saturday 16 May 2009

Hip-Hop Masonic Agenda


...This video examines the various agendas that are CURRENTLY being pushed through Hip-Hop and the direction they are moving us in.

This work is a mixture of conversations from Alan Watt, Tupac Shakur & "Gwapo's" weekly Radio Show...

Wednesday 13 May 2009

Coping with Babylon

..Rastafari is known to the world through reggae music. Many interviewees in Oliver Hill’s Coping with Babylon: the Proper Rastology, who live Rastafari in their daily lives, cite Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, and Dennis Brown in particular as ambassadors of Jamaica’s great folk religion, never seeking to diminish these musicians’ roles in spreading the word...
...Rastafarian imagery has infiltrated popular culture not just through reggae and other kindred music, but also in the form of clothing, fashion, and general iconography. Despite the well-established co-option of the religion’s trappings and the tremendous popularity of many reggae, dub, and dancehall artists, Coping with Babylon: the Proper Rastology takes a sober, relatively non-musical path in broadcasting the views and roles of Rastafari in the early twenty-first century...

Tuesday 12 May 2009

RiP - a Remix Manifesto

...In RiP: A remix manifesto, Web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of copyright in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th century and shattering the wall between users and producers...
...The film’s central protagonist is Girl Talk, a mash-up musician topping the charts with his sample-based songs. But is Girl Talk a paragon of people power or the Pied Piper of piracy? Creative Commons founder, Lawrence Lessig, Brazil’s Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil and pop culture critic Cory Doctorow are also along for the ride.

A participatory media experiment, from day one, Brett shares his raw footage at opensourcecinema.org, for anyone to remix. This movie-as-mash-up method allows these remixes to become an integral part of the film. With RiP: A remix manifesto, Gaylor and Girl Talk sound an urgent alarm and draw the lines of battle.

Which side of the ideas war are you on?

Friday 8 May 2009

Brixton Diaries


...TRUE STORY, ONE SUMMERS AFTERNOON IN BRIXTON.. A MAN WAS KILLED OUTRIGHT ON COLDHARBOUR LANE BY A ROGUE BIKER PULLING A HIGH SPEED WHEELIE..
OLD BILL EVERYWHERE, SAME TIME 200 YARDS DOWN THE SAME ROAD A BUS DRIVER HAD A MASSIVE HEART ATTACK AT THE WHEEL..SWERVES ACROSS ONCOMING TRAFFIC AND PLOUGHS OVER A PARKED CAR, THROUGH A BRICK WALL AND INTO SOMEBODY'S FRONT GARDEN.. MORE OLD BILL.. MORE AMBULANCES..
THEN ONE OF THE LOCALS WHO HAD RUN OUT OF HER HOUSE TO SEE THE CARNAGE LEFT A CANDLE TO NEAR TO HER WINDOW CURTAINS..
A CANDLE? MID SUMMER?.. GUESS WHAT..
YEP SHE BURNT HER FLAT TO THE GROUND.. NOW YOU GOT SCREAMING FIRE CREWS IN THE MIX... ONE SERIOUSLY MAD DAY IN BRIXTON... THE WHEELIE KILLER GOT 5 YEARS.

RIP RODNEY FERGUSON...

Thursday 7 May 2009

Ferret Power


...Rudy Giuliani banned Ferret as pets in NYC, back in 1999. Now he is running for President. Here is what some NY ferrets have to say about him....

Wednesday 6 May 2009

Tuesday 5 May 2009

Scratch (2001)

...A feature-length documentary film about hip-hop DJing, otherwise known as turntablism. From the South Bronx in the 1970s to San Francisco now, the world's best scratchers, beat-diggers, party-rockers, and producers wax poetic on beats, breaks, battles, and the infinite possibilities of vinyl...

Monday 4 May 2009

Neil Young - Get Around

...In this EXCLUSIVE WORLD PREMIERE film, Neil Young takes you behind the wheel of LincVolt, a 1959 Lincoln Continental converted to run on alternative, earth-friendly fuels. Young crosses America in this remarkable vehicle, singing in real time tracks from his brand new album "Fork In The Road." A beautiful, minimalist road movie, from Young's filmmaking alter ego Bernard Shakey...
Get Around

...Of the new album, UnCut Magazine says: “FORK IN THE ROAD finds Young back in his rusted-
out garage, looking under the hood of a world badly in need of an overhaul. Employing the classic American metaphor of the endless highway, he sets out on a road trip through these troubled times, finding much to fret about, but fueled by the dogged belief that we can get through this mess.”

For more information on the LincVolt project, please go to
http://www.lincvolt.com
http://www.neilyoung.com