I just love Ricky Skagg’s version of this tune but, before performing it himself, Peter Rowan tells the story in the clip below of how he and Bill Monroe wrote this tune after having driven all night on their bus traveling north from the Grand Ole Opry:
Category: sight and sound
all things cinematic
Big River Man: Martin Strel
Check out Martin’s complete [and impressive] list of accomplishments here
Go Malamud
Cory Doctorow writes the following about Carl Malamud: Carl is the beloved “rogue librarian” who has done so much to liberate tax-funded government works, from movies to court rulings to the text of laws themselves, putting these public domain works on the Internet where they belong. By the People is an inspirational and education piece…
Octopi Sophistica
via @pinktentacle
Trent Harris
Trent Harris is great for having made Rubin and Ed, which has been one of my favorite movies ever since my pal, Alec, turned me onto it prolly more than 11 years ago. Trent’s made other stuff, too, and continues to make stuff, such as random video posts @ Fling A Ding: Thanks, Trent
Projections on Buildings
I could watch stuff like this endlessly…
Slide on Gastineau Ave
If we still lived in Juneau, this is where we’d still be parking our Subaru wagon. Last week, the Soobi would have been buried under this:
Michael Pollan and The Botany of Desire
Author Michael Pollan says: The tulip, by gratifying our desire for a certain kind of beauty, has gotten us to take it from its origins in Central Asia and disperse it around the world. Marijuana, by gratifying our desire to change consciousness, has gotten people to risk their lives, their freedom, in order to grow…
BEEF
How to handle a whole side of beef: Meat Appreciation: A NYC Restaurant Honors the Whole Animal from SkeeterNYC on Vimeo.
Royal de Luxe – LE RENDEZ-VOUS DE BERLIN, DAS WIEDERSEHEN VON BERLIN
Royal de Luxe – LE RENDEZ-VOUS DE BERLIN, DAS WIEDERSEHEN VON BERLIN from Nina. on Vimeo.
Marshmallow test: pass or fail?
I’ve never been into marshmallows but still think I woulda failed on principle: Oh, The Temptation from Steve V on Vimeo.
Xuggler
If you’ve ever fumbled around with ffmpeg and other tools, there is a superior alternative I was turned onto today by Paul Gregoire via his blog: Xuggler! The Media Tools are particularly of use to folks like me – how suhweeet is this?
MOBY in MPLS
Moby was in town @ The Current this past week and, in addition to hosting Theft of the Dial, left us with some great live recordings, including this moving Gospel rendition:
Humans Swimming
Are you a human? Do you like to swim? How about free-diving? How about static free diving?