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Tag: video/Archives

2009-07-24

Wedding Entrance

Sez my niece: “This made me laugh so hard I cried.”
Sez my wife: “A very white wedding… but it made me cry, too.”

JK Wedding Entrance Dance:

2009-06-25

Danny MacAskill- Trials Rider

In bicycle trials, evolved from motorcycle trials, “the rider negotiates man-made and natural obstacles without their feet touching the ground” (Wikipedia). This video of Scottish Trials Rider Danny MacAskill (for Inspired Bicycles was filmed around Edinburgh:

(Music: “The Funeral” Band of Horses).

via Jess Atkins.

2009-06-22

Tiny Desk Concerts

NPR may be a huge mega media monolith but ya gotta luv ’em for dreaming up this ever so small, homey, humble and intoxicating way to convey new music: the Tiny Desk Concerts. Sit some musicmakers down in front of Bob Boilin’s desk at the NPR music offices and let ’em sing a few — no surround sound mega-amps, no pyrotechnic lightshows; just some folk with their strings and voices playing around at work.

Try this latest 3-song Tink Desk set from The Avett Brothers. Or head right for the Welsh wonder, Tom Jones Performs Live.

Tiny Desk Concerty web banner

And all the vids end up downloadable via the All Songs Considered Concerts Podcast.

2009-06-21

Vision of Students

Another video on the info-age from Prof Wesch and the students of Digital Ethnography (@ KS State U). How do they do it? Their shots are always so simple and sparse, their writing terse, but sequentially, in a series of small insights, they build into something beautiful and moving. “A Vision of Students Today:”

via Robert Paterson.

2009-05-21

Sita Sings the Blues

Damn fine drawings  by Nina Paley (“America’s Best-Loved Unknown Cartoonist”) in her animated movie “Sita Sings the Blues:”

Sita is a goddess separated from her beloved Lord and husband Rama. Nina is an animator whose husband moves to India, then dumps her by email. Three hilarious shadow puppets narrate both ancient tragedy and modern comedy in this beautifully animated interpretation of the Indian epic Ramayana. Set to the 1920’s jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw, Sita Sings the Blues earns its tagline as “the Greatest Break-Up Story Ever Told.”

Full Movie in HD (720p): Sita Sings the Blues, Part 1 / 10 | Archive.org | Director’s blog | Sita site

via Mtn Music.

2009-04-30

Auto-Tune News 2

Micheal Gregory makes it hardly worth tuning in any news that ain’t auto-tuned, “Auto-Tune the News #2: pirates. drugs. gay marriage:”

very thin ice.

2009-04-20

VT Bike Shop

My friends sent this vid-tour of their bike store, the West Hill Shop in Putney, Vermont. What a place, down-home and damn inviting — makes me wanna pedal cross-country just to go there and buy somethin…

If you’re anywhere near Putney VT, stop in, ask for Jim & Diny Sweitzer: tell ’em HV sent ya.

2009-04-09

Mother of All Funk Chords

UPDATE: NPR story on Kitman
Kitiman’s ThruYOU vids are mashups & mixes of “unrelated YouTube video/clips edited together — what you see is what you hear.” The latest is the “Mother of All Funk Chords:”

Sez 43 Folders of Kutiman:

Unsolicited tip for media company c-levels: if your reaction to this crate of magic is “Hm. I wonder how we’d go about suing someone who ‘did this’ with our IP?” instead of, “Holy crap, clearly, this is the freaking future of entertainment,” it’s probably time to put some ramen on your Visa and start making stuff up for your LinkedIn page.

Because, this is what your new Elvis looks like, gang. And, eventually somebody will figure out (and publicly admit) that Kutiman, and any number of his peers on the “To-Sue”list, should be passed from Legal down to A&R.

Kutiman: Space | Wikip | More ThruYOU‘s

via Smatter.

2009-04-08

John Cage “4’33”

From a Composer Weekend dedicated to John Cage, at the Barbican Centre, London (John Cage Uncaged, January 2004). Hope the musicians weren’t getting paid by the note, but you gotta admit it was a flawless performance; John Cage “4’33” by the BBC Symphony Orchestra:

“Everything is music.” “Wherever we are what we hear mostly is noise… When we ignore noise, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating.” —John Cage

From the BBC article, “Radio 3 plays ‘silent symphony.’ BBC Radio 3 has aired more than four minutes of complete silence… by design”:

[Cage’s] estate won a bizarre copyright battle in 2002, when composer Mike Batt agreed to pay a six-figure sum to a charity because his album featured a tongue-in-cheek silent track which he credited as co-written by Cage…

General manager Paul Hughes told BBC Radio 5 Live the orchestra had rehearsed to “get in the right frame of mind”.

Despite having no notes to play, the musicians tuned up and then turned pages of the score after each of the three “movements” specified by the composer.

The silence was broken at times by coughing and rustling sounds from the audience, who marked the end of the performance with enthusiastic applause.

Mr Hughes denied the performance was a “mindless gimmick” and said Cage believed “music was all around us all the time” and the piece was his attempt to make the audience focus on sounds that were “part of our everyday lives”.

But the audience at the premiere in 1952 was “so discomforted that mostly what you could hear was people getting up and walking out”, he said.

“They were completely outraged and extremely angry,” Mr Hughes added.

He said Cage, who died in 1992 aged 80, was very proud of the silent composition.

In readiness for the performance, Radio 3 bosses switched off their emergency back-up system – designed to cut in when there is an unexpected silence on air.

2009-03-25

Sweet Home Alabama.ru

HV listener Jack R Box has been combing thru this site for us, uncovering 404s, removed YT videos, and other species of link-rot. In one of our eeem xchanges he suggested I check the following vid, and I’m glad I did.

Witness this musical incarnation of multinational glasnot, Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Sweet Home Alabama” by the Leningrad Cowboys & Red Army Choir:

2009-03-14

Inauguration Approximation

They fixed it in the mix:

“The Obama inauguration performance was pre-recorded, as we learned a few days after the event. Here is how the live performance might have actually sounded, for all we know… This is a satirical hypothetical document, not an actual record of what happened on inauguration day. Albeit with a nod to StSanders, numerous viewers have also pointed out that the duration of this video (4’33”) makes it a sort of John Cage tribute.”

via Lucas at WFMU.

2009-03-02

ZBS Noir Vids

The ZBS series 2 Minute Film Noir are radio dramas, inspired by a film genre, which has inspired a series of video versions, starring 2MNF’s Joe and Moe. The first is “When Little Girls Come Out To Play:”