This is a great example of someone doing it right. Wish I could have been in LA for this. First, if you don’t know what El Sistema is, watch the video. Okay, so now imagine how this concept, all the good will and constructive energy, could be expanded. And then the reporter said: “You are [...]
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Gustavo Dudamel, El Sistema
Posted in HEH, MUSIC, PEEPS, POLITICS, tagged MUSIC on October 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Orange Shop Window
Posted in GEEKDOM, HEH, MUSIC, TELECOM on January 22, 2008 | Comments Off
Orange have come up with a clever attention getter for their shop windows, watch the video: Orange’s interactive window was developed by The Alternative. The window uses gesture-based technology to allow users to wave a hand and a projected image inside the store responds to the movement. With no interface such as a glove, mouse [...]
Mark Mothersbaugh Interview
Posted in HEH, MUSIC, PEEPS, POLITICS on January 12, 2008 | Comments Off
Enjoyed reading this Andreas Trolf interview with Mark Mothersbaugh. Trolf begins: We got to the Scion Installation gallery late in the afternoon after getting seriously lost in the maze of Southern California industrial backwaters. The gallery sits inconspicuously on a residential street in Culver City, itself another in the list of inconspicuous Los Angeles sub-divisions, [...]
Ivete Sangalo
Posted in HEH, MUSIC, PEEPS on December 1, 2007 | Comments Off
I’m home in NYC tonight. The weather is freezing. Staying in tonight and listening to warm music, starting with Ivete Sangalo. Just tried out the Amazon album downloader for the first time, feels good not to be downloading drm’d tunes from iTunes.
Movies This Week
Posted in FILM, HEH, MUSIC, POLITICS on October 5, 2007 | Comments Off
Am back in NYC and managed to hit the movies twice in the past week – a total luxury – and recommend both films highly. First, headed up to the Walter Reade for MacunaÃma. Brazilian Cinema Novo director Joaquim Pedro de Andrade completed this politically charged flick in 1968. The negative was recently restored (Andrade’s [...]
Carnival In Rio QTVR
Posted in GEEKDOM, HEH, MUSIC, PHOTOGRAPHY on February 23, 2007 | Comments Off
Nice Quick Time Virtual Reality 360 degree panoramas links of carnaval in Rio here, here’s one in Ipanema in front of the Caesar Park hotel. More Brazilian carnaval deets on Wikipedia.
Peter Tosh And Mick Jagger
Posted in MUSIC, PEEPS, VIDEO DU JOUR on January 26, 2006 | Comments Off
UPDATE: Looks like youtube have yanked the video. Pity. Don’t Look Back. I was checking out a few of the video hosting services and came across this sweet recording of Mick Jagger and Peter Tosh. Yeah, I know, I haven’t posted a video du jour in a while (perhaps I should come up with a [...]
Beastie Collaborative Film
Posted in DISTRIBUTION, FILM, MUSIC, PEEPS on January 21, 2006 | Comments Off
The Beastie Boys handed out video cameras to 50 fans in the audience for their October 2004 concert at Madison Square Garden. The film, edited up from the 50 loaned cams and a few higher quality cams on stage is being presented tonight at Sundance (Library Center Theatre), the expected release date is March 2006, [...]
Paul Miller a.k.a. DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid
Posted in 24x7 FILM EXPERIMENT, MUSIC, Vlogs on January 8, 2006 | 3 Comments »
You probably know Paul Miller as the DJ culture guru famous for creating structure from sequences. Also known as DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid, he works in music, video, and text, he cuts-up and collages, he deconstructs and creates. And Paul appears in our 24×7 film experiment. The clip in this post is from the [...]
Genesis P-Orridge
Posted in 24x7 FILM EXPERIMENT, MUSIC, PEEPS, Vlogs on December 11, 2005 | 4 Comments »
I’ll quote Doug Rushkoff to introduce this video clip we’re posting to the production blog for the 24×7 film experiment: “Genesis P-Orridge‘s work defies objective analysis”. That about sums it up, if you don’t know the body of work check out Genesis’ website for current goings on, pics and performance schedules. We invited Genesis, who [...]
Nature publishes an analysis re the collaborative nature of rappers. He finds that on average it takes a chain of just 2.9 people in the network to connect one rapper to another; that is, three degrees of separation. This compares with 2.5 people for the network of movie actors (popularized in the Kevin Bacon game [...]
Mouse Phermone Advertisement Songs
Posted in HEH, LIFE SCIENCES, MUSIC, PEEPS on November 2, 2005 | Comments Off
Yesterday it was monkey math, today it’s rodent rockers. As it turns out, a study of the ultrasonic vocalisations of mice mouse indicates they sing. Yep, singing male mice, singing to attract females. Timothy E. Holy and Zhongsheng Guo of the Washington University School of Medicine Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology (located in St. Louis, [...]
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