There’s a buncha great Chet Atkins vids @utv, like “Chet Atkins – Mr. Sandman (TV 1954)”:
Saw Chet in the 70s here in MT. Ranked among my most memorable concerts, and audiences: The men arrived in suits, boots and bollos; the women in beehives, a la B-52s, ‘cept these t’weren’t no new wavers, quite the opposite, a wave as old as wind thru the wheat, everyone come to see a country pickin’ legend . Want more? Try “Dark Eyes” and Don McLean’s “Vincent.”
In the comments to the Young Folks post here last week, a couple HV producers (AnnH and JMenj) linked to some immensely amusing videos, Loney, Dear’s “I Am John”:
Jakes new video for his NPR piece searching for the “Ark of the Covenant” and finding humanity. A radio story with photos from a trip to Ethiopia:
A (VJ Pablo Productions) video for Skyward song “Sundial” — cover of a tune by Yasmine Mohammedi by French band Lighthouse — off the self-titled Skyward CD (emusic | amazon):
Skyward has composed lotsa music for HV productions. Check the 3-bass Loop for our auto Oddio Art maker.
Just when you thought you had the best job in the world, some gamers from Dark Sector have to come and one up you:
Last post had old folks doing “Young Folks.” On a related power-chord, here’s the oldest band in the world, The Zimmers (lead singer Alf is 90), doing “My Generation”:
Found at some velvet blog. ‘Course these oldsters also got a MySpace.
OK, it’s official. Peter, Bjorn & John’s “Young Folks” is a music phenom. I can’t play it (on KGLT-Bozeman) w/o someone calling and demanding details. Personally, I think the song’s just OK, but combine that listener response with this tres kewl vid:
And here’s where phenom-ville starts- Old folks (mostly) have now done “Young Folks” bluegrass-style (dawn Landes & the WEST Band):
Happy Easter Everybody. Watch your back:
Wanna see how a turntablist turntables? Here’s Kid Koala — who does indeed look like a kid:
Found at WFMU’s Beware of the Blog.
The future is here, and it’s hand-held, packing deadly force, and posting videos. The military’s Multi-National Force – Iraq has it’s own YouTube channel. Here’s American and Iraqi infantry in a Baghdad Firefight, March 2007:
The Army is there too, and at Flickr. (Read CJR Daily report.) We have met the enemy, and he is you-tubed.
You’ve heard a Ninja explain podcasts, why not an 88 year-old granma on mashups– “Now, before we get our freak on, we need to match up our beats.” (found at WFMU’s BOTB):
Mad props and prunes to DJ Sue Teller (viral marketer?); check out her-space.
From Jeff Han and :: Perceptive Pixel ::, a new demo of a large version of their Multi Touch screens:
You’ll have to turn the sound off though, unless you like awe-inspiring ambient music.
The real rules of Scrabble from the show with zefrank
As mentioned before I’m hooked on C-Span. Mainly for it’s raw unedited info, and insight into how-.gov-works. But also for it’s moments of pure real-life theatre, like during last weeks’ Senate Hearings on Global Warming, in this interaction b/w witness Fmr VP Gore and Senators Inhofe and Boxer:
What was more enlightening, tho, was the educated exchanges Gore had w/ senators on both sides of the aisle. Sure the occasional pol proposed things like sunspots as cause for globe.warm (really, a Senator said that: sunspots). But most — GOP and Dem — were informed, concerned and open to learning more. Here’s Sen Clinton and the fmr Veep:
Highly recommended you stream this thing: all 2+ hours of the C-Span (RealMedia) coverage. As a contrast, read CJR Daily‘s eval of network sound-bitten reports on Gore’s testimony to both houses.
Memorial Day and military funeral services from American Civil War to Operation Iraqi Freedom:
“Echo Taps” played by the US Marine Band.Photos from: Library of Congress, National Archives and Records, Dover Air Force Base, and Wikipedia:
Check this nice flash-background to a video player: TERRA: The Nature of Our World. I love the outdoor drive-in amongst wildlife setting. The site is a MT State Univ student site, and it’s up for a SXSW award (MSU press release).
Photos by Scott Carrier from Afghanistan for an Harper’s Magazine article:
Music by Eva Cassidy from her Live at Blues Alley.
Funny how you can glean the plot from The Big Lebowski- F*cking Short Version:
Ricky Gervais Comic Relief 2007 Red Nose Day. Like the previous post, this one’s also from Africa… sort of: