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Chesty’s Tongue Twisters

Lesbos, Survivor Slumber Party, and Serbo-Croatian Tongue Twisters, Episode Five of Chesty Morgan’s Forbidden Love! (7:31 mp3):

Countdown cast

This week’s HV cast is an HV/JoeFrank.com collaboration for New Year’s. We present this short sobering look at the passage of time. A story by Joe Frank, “Countdown” (1:49 mp3):

Chesty Melons and Peanuts

Killer Lion, Killer Peanuts and Gazungo Melons Inside Tube Tops, Episode Four of Chesty Morgan’s Forbidden Love! (7:29 mp3):

Supreme Evil Vid- GHP

Mashups were first conjured millennia ago. Upon their initial public hearing, the people arose as one shouting “WTF?” and “Cut-teth thee shite.”

These forced couplings of different races of songs and styles were deemed unholy alliances. Moses requested “Thou Shalt Not Mashup” as an Eleventh Commandment, but G-d felt the tablets were already crowded. So due to design concerns, mashups persisted thru the ages, reviled, outcast, and living only in the dark places: teenagers’ harddrives and eclectic radio playlists.

Until recently. Now a new threat has emerged. Mashups have crawled out of their audio underworlds and slithered into the video realm. Witness, friends, how the hour is again at hand for G-d to consider an anti-mashup memo. From Mark Vidler’s Go Home Productions “Supreme Evil” (ELO vs Diana Ross & Supremes):

The audio– GHP “Supreme Evil” (3:05 mp3):

Laurie Hogin’s Animals

Of Laurie Hogin’s work a WFMU’s Blogger sez, “I melt whenever I see her allegorical paintings of cranky birds and suspicious animals.”

Image galleries are at Laurie Hogin’s site and Little John Contemporary.

The Ride

The idea of a nearly infinity-geared bicycle is a half-millennia old, first drawn by Da Vinci, and now realized by a couple San Diego designers: “The Ride” is one of Popular Science’s Best of What’s New 2007.

Photosynth

Blaise Aguera y Arcas of Microsoft Live Labs Photosynth gives this TED talk about their software. Photosynth “can access gigabytes of photos in seconds” and integrate related images from all over the web into a single expandable, collapsible, explorable whole:

WikiRecording

Just getting started is this WikiRecording, an audio-recording community knowledge-base. The contents are a bit skimpy as yet, but some sections, like “Stereo Microphone Techniques” are filling out. And maybe with all our help…

HV Xmas

Here’s 2007’s HV News Christmas list of holiday audio and blog-posts.

Zulu Kids Xmas cast

HV Podcast-This week’s HV cast is A Christmas audio postcard sung by Zulu children in a South African orphanage. A story by Jake Warga, “Zulu Kids Xmas” (2:14 mp3):

Santastic III

dj BC has his latest compilation of people’s mp3 Christmashups up, Santastic III in 3-D. From it, mojochronic takes Led Zep a caroling in “Yuletide Zeppelin” (5:14 mp3):

Xmas Light Shows

Christmas in Frisco Square 2007 Light Show:
Jeff Trykoski‘s 65,000 computer-controlled music-synced lights are in Frisco, TX. The music is broadcast to passing vehicles over a low-power FM transmitter. More xmas moving lights after the jump. More…

Chesty Three

Just in time for the Holy Days, Chesty Morgan’s Forbidden Love!. Pigs fly, Ken Lay’s records, and Osama’s competition campaigns in Part Three (7:33 mp3):

Snowflake Font

P22, an incredible font factory, is once again offering their Free Snowflake Font:

Also up is P22’s Music Text Composition Generator (free online music utility).

White Weather

The weather for Montana today (0:11 mp3):

via WFMU’s BOTB

StoryCorps- Conley Christmas

Once again this blog becomes a StoryCrops cheerleader; this time it’s Christmas cheers for SC’s latest in which Jerry Johnson intervus his mom, Carrie Conley, about raising six kids by herself (4:18):

Hildie Golding’s Pix

One of my sis’s photos was once again features in WeeklyShot. Here’s a few of my faves from her collection there at Vazaar:

More…

Beatle Stairway

From the 90s Australian comedy show The Money Or The Gun, the Beatles cover band, The Beatnix, do an ooooo-so-fab4 cover of LedZep’s “Stairway To Heaven”:
At last count WFMU had climbed 101 steps up their mp3 collection of Stairway covers.

Bell Ringer & Singer

Yesterday on NPR Day to Day, Arthur Jackson is a Bell Ringer for the The Salvation Army. This former crack addict found God, stays off drugs, sings and rings bells at the Mall of America in Minneapolis. Produced for HV by Todd Melby of 2 below zero, “Arthur Jackson: Singing Salvation Army Bell Ringer” (3:28 mp3):

Holiday Freakin’ & Freakout

Was listening to Lukas on KGLT this weekend playing all kindsa insane and inane Xmas-isms. Called him up and he pointed me to Otis Fodder’s three free mp3 free collections, Holiday Freak Out & In. I knew the Otis’ name from his 365 Days Project. But didn’t realize, till Lukas, informed, he’s also the music sampling phenom The Bran Flakes.

Holiday Freak In 1 includes one of the best Christmashups ever; it’s Corporal Blossom assembling bits of Satchmo, Elvis, Bing and The Supremes all wishing for a “White Christmas” (3:19 mp3):

The song first appeared on the Illegal Art compilation A MUTATED CHRISTMAS.