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Idling tractor as percussion for Sweet Georgia Brown

nick — Fri, 08 May 2009 21:41:58 +0000

Go, tractor, go!

From the guitarist:

I am the guitar player, my name is Olle Hemmingson and i live in Sweden. There has been some asking about my guitar, it is a Gibson Les Paul Signature, i bought it used around 1975 and it’s the best guitar I ever had. The bridge is for adjusting the strings in all ways and the strings are locked in the top. There is a movie with “Sweet Georgia Brown” and a one with “Lover come back to me” to[o]. I did not send the movies to YouTube, but it’s fun that people seems to like it.

(via laughing squid)

Elvis jams with Jimmy Page

nick — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:41:09 +0000

BBC Radio 2 shows off some editing skills with some rare footage of a pretty sweet lineup (save Elvis).

The most expensive music in the world

nick — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 21:55:58 +0000

German experimental composer Johannes Kreidler took data from plummeting stock values, death tolls in Iraq and other horribly depressing charts, plugged them into Microsoft’s song composition software, Songsmith, and came up with some oddly sanguine music.

enjoy your Friday.

Newspapers on the Internet?!

nick — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:32:30 +0000

Imagine, if you will, sitting down to your morning coffee [and] turning on your home computer to read the day’s newspaper.

Here’s a 1981 report from Bay Area TV station KRON on the San Francisco Examiner’s first attempt at an online presence.

Key quote: “…we’re not in it to make money.” How true.

Remember the Future on YouTube

nick — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:14:26 +0000

Here’s a YouTube version of the intro I did for the Remember the Future website.

Henry Miller Recalls NYC

nick — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 01:01:26 +0000

“Every bloody street I look down, I see nothing but misery, nothing but monsters.”

Everybody reacts to New York, but from the brief period that I lived there, I can’t say I have the same visceral response to the city as Henry Miller does. Of course, this is Henry Miller we’re talking about. And he sure is fun to listen to:
Warning: language NSFW

(go here for an additional, longer video of Miller pontificating in his bathroom.)

Charlie Rose interviews himself

nick — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 01:30:47 +0000

In a piece titled “‘Charlie Rose’ by Samuel Beckett,” filmmaker Andrew Filippone Jr. splices together footage from a single episode of the famous PBS program, replacing the interviewee with a second interviewer. The result is a wonderful bit of postmodern minimalism (hence the Beckett reference) that’s equally absurd and disturbing.

From the artist’s description:

Something has happened to PBS favorite “Charlie Rose.” The erudite conversations and sober intellectualism have been replaced by an absurd world where illogic, inane dialogues, and open hostility rule. The one-on-one interview between Charlie and his guest begins as usual but quickly goes awry, so much so that Charlie is warned that, somewhere, a man named “Steve” is “not happy.” Though this seemingly random statement might confuse us, Charlie understands it for what it is — a threat. But who is “Steve” and why is he angry? And why does the mere mention of his name stop Charlie cold?

Vienna Vegetable Orchestra

nick — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:50:51 +0000

The Vienna Vegetable Orchestra, founded in 1999, makes all their instruments out of — you guessed it — vegetables. The music they make is truly impressive, ranging from Jazz to Electronica to Dub, all played with hollowed out carrots, cucumberphones and leek violins.

Check out their website for photos of their instruments and audio samples.

Weiner Poopie

nick — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:51:39 +0000

Thank God for CNN. How else would we ever come across a story with two of the most compelling narrative aspects ever to be combined: weiner poopie and a ransomed Jesus?

(Thanks to a local news follow-up, it was revealed that the 80 lb. Jesus was taken – and returned – by a family member.)

YouTube catches the V.P. Does it matter?

nick — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 19:35:22 +0000

Television is obsessed with Karl Rove, but the Internet is focused on Dick Cheney. A YouTube video posted a few days ago shows the Vice President thirteen years ago, saying things about Iraq that today would sound like a statement from one of his critics. He even goes as far as to say that invading Baghdad would result in a “quagmire.”

Does this really mean anything? And what will be the lasting effect of this type of footage showing up on the Internet?