The sounds these guys make are made to be experienced live and man, look out because the grooves powered by Brady’s bass and Freddy’s drums carry the audience off to dance land. The clip below does their thing little justice but after their set @ the 501 Club last night, I had to mention them…
Category: sight and sound
all things cinematic
Alex Glawion : Evolution Solution Animation
Evolution from Alex Glawion on Vimeo. hats off to @brainpicker for the nod
On Keeping the Main Thing the Main Thing: Sound as Image
translating information from one sense into another, especially sound to image, is one of the things technology does well case in point is Close Encounters of the Third Kind is this captivating? in the case of Close Encounters it is. however, personally, i can only say that in other cases, such as the one below,…
Still My Guitar Gently Weeps
Just imagine the collective talent and experience onstage at one time here:
Maurice Sendak : Where The Wild Things Are
Spike Jonze worked with Lance Bangs on this new documentary about Maurice Sendak, who wrote and illustrated Where The Wild Things Are, which is in post-production having been directed by Jonze. Click on the image to see the trailer for the documentary.
Help Each Cheder Out
Fire ants build a living life raft in the Amazon (via kottke.org):
You’re a wolf
Sam Easterson used to work at the Walker. Here’s what he’s doing now: The Museum of Animal Perspectives (MAP) collects and displays wildlife imagery that has been captured using remote sensing cameras. Through the presentation and interpretation of this imagery, the MAP endeavors to expand the public’s capacity to empathize with animals and plants. Now,…
B A D A S S : HUDs
cheers to @drwave for turning me onto this:
walking on the moon
was turned onto this today via @edtechleader:
one example of a music video
surely most of you have seen this before but i still watch it from time-to-time:
Paris Plages
I just cannot stop watching clips shot with the Canon 5d Mark II, simply for the obvious reason – a still camera shot this motion footage: Paris Plages from Alta Media Productions on Vimeo. = c
Everyone Forever Now
Everyone Forever Now – “Stoop Sitting” from Daniel Mercadante on Vimeo. Watch more = c
Remembering the contributions of Phil Dodds
Mark Oehlert, an acquaintance of mine via Twitter, turned me onto his friend Phil Dodds, who turns out was not only in the film Close Encounters of the Third Kind, but contributed a great deal to our culture in his short life, including, but not limited to, SCORM: From Wikipedia: He was the chief architect…
Tapped
In late 2008, Switchblade’s Adam Condal edited “Tapped,” a 90-minute documentary that in July of 2009 premiered at the Long Island and Maine International Film Festivals. The film illustrates the impact of the global water crisis on America and what we can do as individuals to enact change sooner rather than later. “Tapped” examines the…
Mad as Hell
Mad As Hell! Kinetic Typography from Aaron Leming on Vimeo. = c
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
I just cannot seem to get enough of this band lately: I’ve been sleeping for forty days and Yeah, I know that I’m sleeping cause this dream’s too amazing She got gold doorknobs where her eyes used to be, yeah One turn and I learned what it really means to see, yeah It’s the magical…
The blues of Bloody Ol’ Mule
Haven’t heard of him yet but we have a feeling you will soon – listen to more here: = c
Blur : Tender
= c
Murmur
[Showing at the Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, Minnesota now through August 23th, 2009] Murmur Study is an installation that examines the rise of micro-messaging technologies such as Twitter and Facebook’s status update. One might describe these messages as a kind of digital small talk. But unlike water-cooler conversations, these fleeting thoughts are accumulated, archived and…