A video just right for Valentine’s Day, animated by Julia Pott, with original music and sound by Christopher Frost. People recall “My First Crush:”
More Julia Pott vids. And here’s some of HV’s past romantic posts.
A diagrammatically delineated vid vers of “This Is a Song” by Mitch Friedman:
From Friedman’s CD Game Show Teeth: “A brand new, almost-rock album, featuring Andy Partridge, Dave Gregory, R. Stevie Moore and more.”
The Christian Bale techno rant remix by RevoLucian (Paine):
“Bale Out” (2:46 mp3):
Also at YouTube. Hi-fi fuqd and clean versions at RevoLucian (and his Space). Original unmix (Bale-only) mp3 at TMZ.
From STOPMAX (audio- Claire Schoen, visuals- Jan Stürmann), commissioned by the American Friends Service Committee, “Solitary Confinement”:
New rx vid featuring our current commander-in-chief, “Fire It Up 2.0:”
Rest in peace, Patrick McGoohan, aka Danger Man, aka Secret Agent, aka The Prisoner (videos)— from episode The Chimes of Big Ben, “I Am Not a Number” (0:50 mp3):
The next of Dust-to-Digital’s book/CD box-set music series is out, Art of Field Recording Volume II: 50 Years of Traditional American Music Documented by Art Rosenbaum:
Art of Field Recording Volume II from Dust-to-Digital on Vimeo.
‘ON THE AIR’ 1937 – How Radio Works:
And that’s just for AM. Don’t even ask about FM.
via Technology360.
UPDATE: Another of Aubrey’s film’s “See You Then” made the Nikon Top 10:
Original post (video links now 404s):
The Nikon Festival asks folk to video document “Your Day, in 140 seconds or less”. Fellow MT-an and fine photographer Audrey Hall has this entry:
“Hi Lonesome”
Audrey’s film features my friend, rancher John Hoiland, star of this NPR piece, “John & Nippy” (5:08):
Pam Fraser’s Flickr set for her neighbor JohnH.
What we know now in the USA, India and China, and what we will know soon. “Did You Know?” by shifthappens:
via Gravity Medium.
Sweet video my wife found, “Christian the Lion”:
From a movie by the Born Free Foundation (YouTube channel).
“Winter Soldiers”- Iraq Veterans Against the War testimony (warning: includes picture of the dead):
Boots-on-the-ground soldiers and marines testify in March 2008 “giving an accurate account of what is really happening day in and day out.” Winter Soldiers is a project of Iraq Veterans Against the War.
Winter Soldiers Testimony from former Marines: Jon Turner and Michael LeDuc and former Army Soldiers: Clifton Hicks, Garrett Reppenhagen.
Photos and video from veterans: Jon Turner, Scott Ewing, Kristofer Goldsmith, Daniel Fanning, Lars Ekstrom, Mike Totten, Andrew Duffy, Hart Viges, Clifton Hicks, Steven Casey, Steve Mortillo, Jesse Hamilton, Adam Kokesh, Abby Hiser.
Video produced by Max Darham, audio produced by Scott Carrier & Barrett Golding for Hearing Voices. Music by Jeff Arntsen. More Winter Soldiers audio…
A smashup of Sex Pistols’ trax, performed by Brit PM Gordon Brown and Conservative Party head David Camero, “god save the queen vs anarchy in the uk” by rx:
Video (by Kenny Haner) of the Evolution Control Committee‘s classic splice-happy send-up of the Evening News. As i recall CBS sent a cease & desist. ECC did neither. CBS said wtf, and gave up. (More on this at ECC site.)
“Rocked By Rape” from Plagiarhythm Nation, ver. 2.0
And check ECC’s new Wii-hacked “rear-projected infra-red-activated faux-touchscreen video mashup controller.”
via MMP.
From the Weirdo Video.com collection, “rare & authentic 16mm films of cultural, historical and ironical significance, the “American Gothic Cornflakes” ad:
Classic early R&B, Amos Milburn “Bad Bad Whiskey:”
Airing this Weekend America: Annie Leonard spent a decade researching where our consumer stuff comes from, how its made, who the manufacturing effects, and where it ends up.
Among the results is a 20min. video, The Story of Stuff (also in chapters on YouTube), made by Free Range Studios, the same folk who exposed The Meatrix.
“From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view.”
“Story of Stuff” (7:38 mp3):
The video came out on the web a year ago and has since been viewed four-and-a-half million times. Time Magazine named Annie Leonard a 2008 Hero of the Environment. Our HV radio report is by Chase Sbicca.
“Prop 8 – The Musical” starring Jack Black, John C. Reilly, and many more…
Scott Carrier and videographer Lisa Miller visit “El Pastor.” José Antonio Galván is a born-again preacher in Juárez, Mexico, who cares for homeless drug-addicted, mentally ill street people with no place to live but El Pastor’s shelter (Albergue Para Discapacitaros Mentales), out in the desert just south of the U.S. border.
“El Pastor” (Part 1 of 2)
“El Pastor” (Part 2 of 2)
Just in time for Chanukah (Dec 21-29), Seattle’s Captain Smartypants yodel and line-dance their Brokeback Dreidel, aka, “Kislev Cowboys” by Eric Lane Barnes, sung by Captain Smartypants with the Seattle Men’s Chorus:
Recorded by Tom Speer of the Seattle Channel. Listen for the audio of this song in our upcoming “Christmas Mashup” HV hour.
via Kalish.