Eric Mortensen

1. Skinny Puppy (11)
2. Ani DiFranco (9)
3. The Beatles (2)
4. Throbbing Gristle (1)
5. Foetus Inc. (1)

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

This positively gorgeous star-shaped fort and its associated village is Bourtange, a Dutch fortification built in the 16th century during the Eighty Years’ War. The fort was decommissioned at one point in 1851, after which the area became a normal town, but a century later the fort was restored to encourage tourists to visit the area. While the fort itself is now a popular museum, the village continues to hold a constant population.

via WebUrbanist

Nice The Who-Madonna mashup from Go Home Productions:  Virgin O’Riley

via mashuptown

Coil - Lorca Not Orca

from Love’s Secret Domain

Acoustic guitars and vocoders.  Yum.

tanya77:

britticisms:

I’m still trying to wrap my head around how they got away with these things:

• Efforts by Hispanic board members to include more Latino figures as role models for the state’s large Hispanic population were consistently defeated, prompting one member, Mary Helen Berlanga, to storm out of a meeting late Thursday night, saying, “They can just pretend this is a white America and Hispanics don’t exist.”
• There were no historians, sociologists or economists consulted at the meetings, though some members of the conservative bloc held themselves out as experts on certain topics.
• To that end, they made dozens of minor changes aimed at calling into question, among other things, concepts like the separation of church and state and the secular nature of the American Revolution.

• Mavis B. Knight, a Democrat from Dallas, introduced an amendment requiring that students study the reasons “the founding fathers protected religious freedom in America by barring the government from promoting or disfavoring any particular religion above all others.” It was defeated on a party-line vote.

• In economics, the revisions add Milton Friedman and Friedrich von Hayek, two champions of free-market economic theory, among the usual list of economists to be studied, like Adam Smith, Karl Marx and John Maynard Keynes. They also replaced the word “capitalism” throughout their texts with the “free-enterprise system.” “Let’s face it, capitalism does have a negative connotation,” said one conservative member, Terri Leo. “You know, ‘capitalist pig!’ ”

• Cynthia Dunbar, a lawyer from Richmond who is a strict constitutionalist and thinks the nation was founded on Christian beliefs, managed to cut Thomas Jefferson from a list of figures whose writings inspired revolutions in the late 18th century and 19th century, replacing him with St. Thomas Aquinas, John Calvin and William Blackstone. (Jefferson is not well liked among conservatives on the board because he coined the term “separation between church and state.”)

If these people were less organized and more concerned with beard length, we’d call them Taliban. 

retrospace:

Can you spot the not-so-subtle phallic imagery? 

James Lipton composed the Thundercats theme?  Really?

(via warming glow)

doublethink:

A really good friend of mine from college recently left a high-profile position at APPL.  As background, this guy has been an APPL fanboy since he was 10; in college, he was the only person using a Mac that I knew of in my entire dorm, and he continues to evangelize APPL to this day.  Working at APPL, and with Steve Jobs, was his dream.

After several years at APPL, my friend realized that he wasn’t going to advance any farther, as much as he may have wanted to.  He was surrounded by hyper-talented guys in their 40s and 50s who had been with APPL for over a decade, who were instrumental to the operation of the company, and who no one has ever heard of.  In prominent meetings, the only people allowed to talk are the high-level executives; none of the front-line PMs or designers get to attach their names to or take responsibility for things like big deals or launches.  And now that APPL is sitting on a huge pile of money, when they want to recruit for executive-level positions, they hire from outside rather than promote from within.  My friend’s theory is that Steve Jobs intentionally hides his best people so that they don’t get poached, and don’t even get the idea that they could be poached.  APPL’s secret is burying its talent so that no one knows who they are and so they don’t get recognized publicly for their contributions, a veritable walled garden for employment like the iPhone is for apps.

Meanwhile, we know several mediocre people who work at GOOG who are at the front lines constantly and given tons of responsibility, having their names attached to deals and products, getting in the press, networking like fiends in the industry, etc.  Those guys develop public profiles and personas, become known for getting things done, and move on to executive-level positions elsewhere (look, for example, at how AOL is how GOOG 2.0).  GOOG is seeding the entire tech industry with ex-Googlers because they have an explicitly flat hierarchy, are open about (almost) everything, and are not afraid of having their people poached.  Hell, I think they welcome it because it builds relationships and knowledge across the tech industry that will bear fruit later through partnerships and acquisitions.

In an analogy to technology-centric locales, APPL is Route 128 (in MA, which enforces non-compete agreements) and GOOG is Silicon Valley (in CA, which doesn’t enforce non-compete agreements).  Which one will win in the end?  I think it’s obvious GOOG will because of the positive network effects of letting its employees flourish, grow, and leave, which just reinforces the desperation behind APPL’s patent lawsuit, and the fact that they’re going to do more desperate things to try to keep GOOG in check.

More to the overall point though, it’s in the best interests of every business, even lawyers, to let their younger people go out there and shine, and build public personas and reputations.  If they stay, they become in-house stars and can bring business in on their own; if they leave, they become a source for positive referrals and deal flow in the future.  The walled garden approach to employment is tremendously short-sighted and breeds a culture not of innovation or ambition, but of stagnancy and risk-aversion.

Church

5th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 

Apple’s approach to video embeds on the iPhone is surprisingly inconsistent. YouTube embeds display a black box with the word “Watch” in the middle.  All other iPhone compatible embeds, like the two blip.tv videos seen here, show a big round play button on top of a nice gradient.  When you click on a YouTube embed, you’re taken out of the browser and into the YouTube app.  When the video ends, you remain in the YouTube app. If you want to return to the page you were browsing, you must exit the YouTube app and relaunch Safari. When you play all other videos, you play in the default iPod video player and immediately return the the page you were on as soon as the video ends.

“I don’t like regulations,” says Amy Alkon, a syndicated advice columnist who blogs daily at AdviceGoddess.com. “I like to shame people into behaving better.”

Reason.tv’s Ted Balaker sat down with Alkon to discuss her new book, I See Rude People: One woman’s battle to beat some manners into impolite society. Alkon explains how she and others mix chutzpah with technology to fight back against the insane drivers, coffee-house yackers, and subway perverts who make our lives miserable.

(via threeframes)

The Ryan Budget’s Radical Priorities — Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Or, as Citizens for Tax Justice puts it:

“It’s difficult to design a tax plan that will lose $2 trillion over a decade even while requiring 90 percent of taxpayers to pay more. But Congressman Paul Ryan has met that daunting challenge. This analysis makes obvious that Congressman Ryan’s budget plan has nothing to do with balancing the budget, but has everything to do with creating a system that takes more from the poor and less from the rich.”

(via shorterexcerpts)

kevin:

Today I began offering the drawings on Draw and Color as transparent .png files and added Creative Commons licensing to the site. The plan here is to offer something of value to anyone who wishes to use the drawings for any purpose (commercial or otherwise) while continuing to use the project as a simple creative exercise for myself.

It was actually a fun problem solving process to get the recent drawings to work well as transparent files since they’re drawn in charcoal and have sketchy outlines and shading.

Sample .png here

Another audio experiment. This one went from zero to “finished” in roughly an hour. The mix is a bit off, since I mixed it on blown iPhone headphones.  It adds character, right? I‘m forcing myself to create music even if i don’t have the time i need to do it right.

numerology2 + korg kp3 + dave smith instruments mopho + roland sh201 + moog midi murf + alesis midiverb 4 + mackie 1202vlz

new tumblr:  dAPPer

TouchOSC used to manipulate beats in realtime

(via dapperapps)

The application allows to remote control and receive feedback from software and hardware that implements the OSC protocol such as Pure Data, Max/MSP/Jitter, OSCulator, VDMX, Resolume Avenue 3, Modul8, Plogue Bidule, Reaktor, Quartz Composer, Vixid VJX16-4, Supercollider, FAW Circle, vvvv, Derivative TouchDesigner and others.  The application comes with five default layouts that are organized in multiple pages but custom layouts can be constructed using the TouchOSC Editor application.

Odd, but effective demonstration. If your lifelong goal is to create dynamic beats with a midi clarinet and an iPhone, I’m afraid this guy beat you to it.

Jed Bartlet

(via Fuck Yeah West Wing)

hypem:

isabelwhitehead:

Frontier Psychiatrist- The Avalanches
I can’t stop listening to this, hard as I try. You know what? I’m totally ok with it.

copycats:

VCR remixed by Matthew Dear
originally by The xx
(posted by thisisstefanie)

westblog:

criminalwisdom:

11 THINGS YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT PINBALL HISTORY :

1. Pinball Was Illegal.
“Pinball was banned from the early 1940s to the mid-1970s in most of America’s big cities, including New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, where the game was born and where virtually all of its manufacturers have historically been located. The stated reason for the bans: pinball was a game of chance, not skill, and so it was a form of gambling. To be fair, pinball really did involve a lot less skill in the early years of the game—largely because the flipper wasn’t invented until 1947, five years after most of the bans were implemented (up until then, players would bump and tilt the machines in order to sway the ball’s gravity). Many lawmakers also believed pinball to be a mafia-run racket, and a time- and dime-waster for impressionable youth. (The machines robbed the “pockets of school children in the form of nickels and dimes given them as lunch money,” New York mayor Fiorello La Guardia wrote in a Supreme Court affidavit.) “
~ Popular Mechanics( via )

kiyo:

claudia:

Sprinkle Bakes: Guinness Chocolate Pudding

[Recipe here.]

I am so going to make this.

Louis C.K. doing standup at Catch a Rising Star in 1987.

Saw Louis last night at Caroline’s. It’s like the guy in this video is a completely different person.

allthewaydown

The hard to find materials bit makes sense, but I don’t understand the hidden fossil fuel cost.  Can someone please explain?

The Beast File: Google 

Paul Prudence

Apple has been making mice for nearly 30 years and they still haven’t made a good one. But it appears that, in the Mighty Mouse, they’ve finally built one that can be fixed. MMFixed brings reasonable ergonomics, which Apple seems to care little about, to Apple’s latest mouse.

Bjork performs Kata Rokkar from Gling Glo, the icelandic jazz album she recorded with Trio Guðmundar Ingólfssonar in 1990.

Icelandic punk/pop act Tappi Tíkarrass, with a 16 year old Bjork on vocals, performs Hrollur in 1981.

Icelandic teenage punk band “Sjálfsfróun” performs Lollipops in 1980 or ‘81.

Icelandic Punk band Q4U performances “Creeps” in 1981.

clairecmc:

Obviously I think twitter is a great communiciation tool. Many folks have commented that I should follow more people. One recent blogger has declared that I’m arrogant since  I only follow one person. Let me try to explain why I don’t follow more people.

Early on I realized that for me to do this myself I had to be realistic about time constraints. Most members of Congress who tweet have staff help on their tweeting. In fact, many members have their staff actually do their tweets for them.

I took a different route. I decided I would do this myself. It would be me, and only me. Some weeks I tweet a lot, others not so much. But without fail I read every single tweet I receive. Ok, maybe I gloss over a few “form” tweets, but I sincerely make an effort to read all. So I get lots of opinions and thoughts from thousands of people. Every day. It truly is two way communication.

If I followed people I would get so many tweets about so many subjects, it would be so much harder for me to get through all the tweets to find those that relate to my work on behalf of Missourians.  I get close to 10,000 letters and emails  a week in my Senate office just from Missourians.

I could take the easy route and say I’m following thousands of people. But that would  feel dishonest because I really would not have the time to read all of their tweets and would have to zoom through hundreds to seek out those tweets that are asking for help, or expressing their opinion on an issue facing us in the Senate.

I like twitter. Not many Senators have embraced it. I believe it does ground me and provides an easy way to stay close to what people are thinking out there. Please feel free to tweet me anytime by including @clairecmc in your tweet. I direct message folks all the time if they are following me. If not, many times I just reply to them.

Thanks so much.

I couldn’t agree more. Sincerity is key.  If you’re following 40,000 people, you’re a pretender. When you’re a small fry, you can sincerely connect directly to every single person in your network.  When you’re a big fish, you can only be sincere by acknowledging that it’s not possible to have tens of thousands of friends. Sincerity is scalable, but you have to alter your approach depending on where you’re at.

The web is loaded with “social media experts” who do not get this.  And yet a U.S. Senator, who we’re led to believe is completely out of touch with this world, understands it completely.  Thanks for the wisdom Senator McCaskill.  I hope the Interwebs are listening.

librarybizarre:

Please support the following.

The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye: A film by Marie Losier / Genesis Breyer P-Orridge

After 5 years of shooting, making costumes, interviews, working on the film on Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, I need some help to make this film happen finally. I need an editor to help shape the film to a good solid story, a sound engineer and transfer of films to HD. The goal is to have the film completed by November so that it’s ready for premiering at the Berlin Film Festival in 2011.

In order to meet this goal I need all the support I can get and I’m excited to announce an online fundraiser via Kickstarter.com.

I just pledged some $.

Oh Utah.

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Attack Formation - I’m Buried Alive

A Trailer for Every Academy Award Winning Movie Ever - Funny Videos | Cracked.com

Billy Lee Riley - Red Hot (1957)

(via mizenscen)

Billy Lee Riley recently passed away.

rainblog:

A friend posted a link to this picture, showing a leaf whose main vein has been deliberately damaged. The picture illustrates how smaller veins, arranged in loops rather than branching structures, ‘route around’ the damage, ensuring that nutrients continue to reach the rest of the leaf. Without this looped network of veins, local damage could starve parts of the leaf and cause them to die. (If you’re interested, Wired has a video giving more detail about a recent study of looped vs. branched networks).

The picture reminded me of another article that I had read recently. Researchers studying traffic flow through the Internet are finding that traffic increasingly flows through the edges of the network, instead of across the backbone maintained by major communications companies. Peer-to-peer connections between smaller players are starting to play a significant part in the movement of data across the Internet. The Internet has always been a looped rather than branched network to some degree, but the extent and importance of the looping may be increasing.

And as any leaf could tell you, that’s probably a good thing.

think4yourself:

Did Netanyahu Know? - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

dominickbrady:

so-treu:

crookedindifference:

Save the Elephants: STOP BLOODY IVORY

This week, two countries are seeking to break the worldwide ban on ivory trading — a decision that could wipe out whole elephant populations and bring these magnificent animals closer to extinction.

But many African states and conservationists support extending the ban on elephant-slaughtering ivory trade. The decision will be made at a UN meeting in Doha on 13 March, and global public opinion could tip the balance!

Sign the petition now

newsweek:

Our Katie Paul writes:

FP has an inside look at the sex trade that’s cropped up in Iraqi expat nightclubs in Damascus, where Iraqi refugees, barred from holding jobs, are forced to make the toughest of career choices. The reporter went undercover at one nightclub to get a handle on how the system works, then set her story against the historical backdrop of Iraq’s unusual relationship with the world’s oldest profession. The narrative is strong, the imagery visual, but it’s the timing of the story that really lands. News out of Iraq today comes out in drips and drabs, and almost exclusively focuses on the question of withdrawal—which is really just code for America’s collective sigh of “is it over yet?” Snap back to reality: for Iraqis, whether at home or in exile, the notion that it could be “over” anytime soon borders on the absurd.

Ani DiFranco - Kazoointoit

from Reveling / Reckoning (2001)

An atypical collection of kazoos, voicemail samples, loops and effects-laiden vocals combined with a typically astute analysis of life in the United States.

I love us both but I don’t feel good
So I keep pulling over
And looking under the hood
I love us both but I’m at wit’s end
Where does your compromise begin and mine end? 
I love us both but what
World’s it gonna be? 
The one according to you
Or the one according to me? 

I don’t feel good so …
Now do my problems include talks with doctors
Who don’t even understand about food? 
I think in ancient china they kinda figured out how the body works
But our culture is just a roughneck
Teenage jerk
With a bottle of pills
And a bottle of booze
And a full round of ammunition
And nothing to lose

And is it really the best we can do
To arm wrestle over whose world it’s gonna be? 
(the one according to you
Or the one according to me)

I love us both and I’ll see ya
If you’ll see me
So … who are we?

vruz:

Sam’s taking control.

—via ryking:fuckyeahwestwing:debbbb:

“Mallory, education is the silver bullet. Education is everything. We don’t need little changes. We need gigantic monumental changes. Schools should be palaces. The competition for the best teachers should be fierce. They should be making six-figure salaries. School should be incredibly expensive for government and absolutely free of charge to its citizens, just like national defense. That’s my position. I just haven’t figured out how to do it yet.”

vruz: and that’s exactly what we’re trying to do

Paul Shaffer-the iconic side-kick of the late-night talk show host David Letterman sat down for a chat in Studio Q to promote his new book “We’ll Be Here for the Rest of our Lives.”

John Norris interviews The Entrance Band on Noisemakers on Noisevox. The player contains all six parts of the interview as well as live performances of Grim Reaper Blues and Lookout!  

Moonlight Bride from Chattanooga, Tennessee play ”Love in the Dark” live in the studio.

Paul Mazurkiewicz from Cannibal Corpse talks to Eric Burnet about middle age, German censorship and the future of the band on this episode of WatchMojo.

Rosanne Cash has had no trouble stepping out from her father’s shadow with her own Grammy-winning singing career.

Follow Ms. Cash on Tumblr

Fluke Holland, Sony Burgess & The Legendary Pacers, Teddy Hill, Larry Donn and J.M. Van Eaton play a benefit for the family of Sun recording artist Billy Lee Riley at Silver Moon.

mikehudack:

bliptv:

Congrats to the beautifully produced, shot and edited show SoLost, which was just nominated for the National Magazine Awards video award.

A toast to Dave Anderson, who produces the show for the Oxford American (like the New Yorker of the south).

Cheers to Dave and publisher Warwick Sabin - they’re up against National Geographic, Sports Illustrated and T, which is really not bad for a (mostly) one man show on a shoestring budget.  Which, I will add, you would never know watching the videos.

Mikey talks with the guys from The Horrors backstage at the Big Day Out. Starting off by suggesting the band was responsible for shipping convicts to Australia, Mikey soon hits his stride, and asks the group about touring and their changing sound on their new record Primary Colours.

A special viewing of Doug Aitken’s installation “Migration”  featuring Lichens, White Rainbow and Arp. (via VernissageTV)

(via wewantnothing)

Deacon Jones talks about his experiences playing with John Lee Hooker, Curtis Mayfield, Elvin Bishop, Freddie King and more. Deacon’s first name is actually Mevlin, but Mayfield renamed him on stage one night and it stuck.

Grandmaster Caz of Cold Crush Brothers talks about his 35+ year history in hip hop.

“Hip hop is fine. It’s the rap business that’s got problems.”

TK Wonder utilizes current events and social issues as the backbone of the lyrics in the hopes of shedding light and awareness on situations at a local and global level.

(via Friends We Love)

Hot Chip’s Felix Martin talks to WatchMojo about mainstream pop, live shows and remixing.

Sister Bliss and Maxi Jazz of Faithless talk to DJsounds in Ibiza.

La Maison Rouge in Paris, France presents Vinyl, an exhibition of records and covers compiled by the British collector, publisher and curator Guy Schraenen.

(via VernissageTV)

Kevin Pollak chats with musician and satirist “Weird Al” Yankovic.

DJ Spooky recorded soundscapes of Antarctic ice fields inspiring him to create the composition Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica in which he applies DJ techniques to build awareness of climate change through electronic music. (via Friends We Love)

Émilie Simon has a keyboard, a Tenori On, a Doepfer and a steampunk arm. She’s not afraid to use them.

(via synthtopia)

Alabaster Rhumb performs a 20 minute set on BraneKandi.

Chicks on Speed, the international art rockers, got down with In the Raw when they were in Sydney in 2007. Hear them confess why they are fake and why they are real!

Singer-songwriter Lyle Lovett stops by studio Q for an interview on this episode of Q TV.

Medeski, Martin & Wood perform Whiney Bitches at The Moog Factory in Asheville, NC.

The Daily English Show deciphers the lyrics to Faith No More’s “Ashes To Ashes”.

The wonderful Nellie McKay sings “Mother of Pearl” (with the immortal first line “Feminists don’t have a sense of humor”) and “If I Had You” from her sparkling set at TED2008.

Tap Tap played Half Moon Street for Bandstand Busking in Northampton Square

When people join the ITSTHEMUSIC.TV last.fm group and tell us what they’re listening to, we reward them by catering specifically to their tastes. Here’s what we’ve got based on what members are listening to right now:

• Little Boots performs “Meddle” on Fader TV
• Big Boi sits down and talks new Outkast, live shows and his new solo project on Hip Hop Official
• Stevie Wonder pays tribute to Michael Jackson on WatchMojo
• Jan Petreczko discusses Sade’s Soldier of Love on Clams and Clinkers
• Jake and Tom discuss Radiohead’s Kid A on Velocities In Music
• ReelerTV talks to Anton Corbijn about the Joy Division film
• EL-P talks to New York Music News
• Four Beatles episodes from WatchMojo, Channel Frederator and Culture Catch cover a variety of topics

Join up so we can post stuff for you!

ReelerTV goes retro in black and white in tribute to the biopic about Joy Division singer, Ian Curtis. The Reeler talks to legendary rock photographer turned director, Anton Corbijn about the making of “Control” and Karina Longworth wraps it up with her thoughts on the atypical rock film.

Jake and Tom discuss Radiohead’s Kid A on Velocities In Music.

Jan Petreczko discusses Sade’s Soldier of Love on Clams and Clinkers

Stevie Wonder Pays Tribute To Michael Jackson on WatchMojo

Half of Los Campesinos! sat down in their dressing room at The Cockpit to tell us all about swine flu, their lovely fans and new album out in February.

New York Music News talks to EL-P.

Trent Reznor, Peter Murphy, Jeordie White, and Atticus Ross perform Iggy Pop’s “Nightclubbing” live in Boston for a special radio broadcast.

Epic Fu talks to Punk Rock Legend Patti Smith

sounds-like:

THE SEEDY SEEDS - “Drive Me To The Center” // ((Electronic Americana with banjo twangs, synth layers, acoustic guitar and simple vocal harmonies from Cincinnati.))

RIYL: Mates of State, Anniversary, frenzied folk

DEVO’s Mark Mothersbaugh discusses his childhood and reveals the band’s roots at Kent State University in the late 1960s.

smooth:

VBS.TV Electric Independence: Gavin Russom

In Russom is a wizard, and not just because his long red flowing mane is reminiscent of a medieval alchemist or because he was once a stage magician. The former engineer for dance label DFA — where he earned the Wizard moniker — has been making and remaking synths since a young age. Gavin thinks of the analog machines as works of art in their own right, electrical music boxes worth admiring as sculpture too. After living in Berlin, Gavin finally decided to come back stateside and get back to his roots. In this episode of Electric Independence, we sit down with him to talk about the state of dance music, 20th century composers and why his music makes you feel high.

Geek Entertainment TV interviews Kool Keith. Part 2.

Watch part 1

Emily Hope Price on Brane Kandi

hypem:

candyisdandy:

The XX - Basic space (Live on Pitchforks surveillance)

Pitchfork do a great line in live music videos, this is from the ‘surveillance’ series which you may have gathered is shot on CCTV.

Source

Mississippi Gabe Carter - Amtrak Blues (via Lo-Fi Saint Louis)

The UK’s Corinne Bailey Rae was recently in Studio Q promoting her new album ‘The Sea’.

FADER TV Interviews Annie

They’re being fixed, one-by-one.  Sorry for the inconvenience.  We’ll be back in action shortly. Stay tuned.

allisonweiss:

Harvey’s Kitchen: Nate Nelson w/ Thayer Sarrano - “Everyday is Listening”

Nate Nelson coproduced my last two studio records and we recorded the new one in his apartment. He’s also a badass singer/songwriter. This is my favorite.

Go, go, go.

The Bowerbirds from Raleigh, NC play live in the studios of the Digital Arts Entertainment Lab. Bowerbirds is Phil Moore (guitar, lead vocals) and Beth Tacular (accordion, keys, vocals), joined by Mark Paulson on Percussion and Vocals).

The Fiery Furnaces from Brooklyn, NY play live in the studios of the Digital Arts Entertainment Lab on indieATL.

Gemini Rising - Episode 5 - Sister Jean

Robert, Richard and childhood buddy ‘Beans’, in an effort to reconnect with their past and musical roots, visit their former schoolteacher Sister Jean and discover that she has changed along with the times.

Ezra Koenig and Rostam Batmanglij of Brooklyn’s Vampire Weekend sat down to chat about their latest record ‘Contra’.

(via justinday)

Centerpieces for the SXSW blip.tv AnyClip Pepsico party tonight at 10pm at Cedar Street Courtyard.  Hope to see you there!

Really excited to see all the great interviews Zadi Diaz has been doing at the Pepsico Podcast Playground at SXSW. Check this one out with Steve Garfield, and the rest at pepsico.blip.tv.

We’re saying farewell to Flickr.  After four years of cross-posting episode thumbnails to the photo sharing service, we’ve decided to terminate the feature.  It’s currently only used by a tiny fraction of blip users and is no longer particularly relevant to blip.tv or Flickr.

We will be terminating Flickr cross-posting on March 29th.  Please contact support/at/blip.tv or support.blip.tv with any questions.

Congrats to the beautifully produced, shot and edited show SoLost, which was just nominated for the National Magazine Awards video award.

A toast to Dave Anderson, who produces the show for the Oxford American (like the New Yorker of the south).

Cheers to Dave and publisher Warwick Sabin - they’re up against National Geographic, Sports Illustrated and T, which is really not bad for a (mostly) one man show on a shoestring budget.  Which, I will add, you would never know watching the videos.

Please join us as we party it up with the great folks at AnyClip at Cedar’s 10pm Sunday night at SXSW.  And thanks to the wonderful Pepsico team for making this all possible!

Please join the list for the party here:

http://digitalspeakeasy.eventbrite.com/

We look forward to seeing you Sunday!

Congrats to all of the 2010 Streamy Awards nominees.  Our hats are off to you (and yes, we are in NYC, so we are wearing hats because it is still darn cold here). And, a special thank you to the dozens of Streamy nominees we’ve been proud to work with over the years.  You guys rock.  We’re looking forward to working with you for years to come.

Cheers to the growing ecosystem of Web shows from all around the world.  We salute you, we root for your success, and we couldn’t be prouder to support all sorts of Web shows, nationally and internationally, Streamy nominee or not.

hilarysiegel:

Whose sole purpose is to act as a running list of Webseries on the Internet.  Sort of like what TV Guide does, but just for online content.  I never know how to find new webseries—they’re usually just sent to me, or posted by other Tumblrs.  Can you send me some suggestions?

“We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.”

         —Sir Winston Churchill

Okay, that might have been a bit dramatic.  Nonetheless we are thrilled to announce that blip.tv has expanded our sales efforts to the UK and Western Europe with the addition of The Internet Works, a boutique rep firm based in London.

Managing Director Chris Broadbent and Sales Director Kelvin McManus spent the last two days at blip.tv HQ in NY getting to know the team.

Video views across the pond — in the UK and Western Europe — have been growing at quite a clip. Now is the time for us to begin making shows some money from viewership in Europe. We’re totally thrilled to have Chris, Kevlin and their entire team on board! Expect to start seeing results in your Dashboard in the next few months.

streamys:

All’s Faire fires up the bards for Streamys ‘For Your Consideration’, Huzzah!

Congrats to Yuri Baranovsky and the great Break A Leg crew, which just announced a deal with Fox Channels Italy to bring the first season of the show to Fox’s international branch in Italy.  Fox Channels Italy will broadcast the show on their linear mobile TV channels, over mobile digital terrestrial television and online on www.floptv.tv.  Buonissimo!!

And check out stories in the Examiner, Tubefilter and DaisyWhitney.com.  Bravo!

Previously:

We’re currently experiencing a data replication issue that may make it appear as if new uploads and recent changes are not being accepted. We’re aware of the issue and should have it resolved soon.

Hit up support.blip.tv or support/at/blip.tv with any questions/concerns.

Congrats to Anyone But Me, which tied for the most number of wins on the We Love Soaps Indie Awards.  Their awards: Best Writing, Best Storyline, Best Lead Actress and Best Supporting Actor.

A toast to Susan Miller, Tina Cesa Ward and the rest of the awesome ABM crew: well deserved!  (And check out their new episode Feb 23rd with guest star Liza Weil from the Gilmore Girls.)

Due to an issue with one of our internet service providers we may have some unscheduled emergency maintenance to perform today at 2PM EST.

• This maintenance should not affect site or video availability.
• Transcoding and other video processing services may run at reduced efficiency.
• Search functionality may not be fully available.

We expect the maintenance to be complete by 4PM EST.

UPDATE: Maintenance was not required thanks to a workaround. All systems are running normally.

We’re proud to be advertising Steve Garfield’s new book Get Seen: Online Video Secrets.  Back in the very, very early days we learned a lot from Steve.  And, we still do.  We closed one of our first ad deals when we staged a surprise Steve appearance in the middle of the pitch.  Steve, congrats on the book and may a ton of people learn a ton from you: they couldn’t have a better teacher.

Hey guys, we had a hiccup there for about 5-10 minutes. We were in the middle of a MySQL CHANGE MASTER procedure and some of the software behaved badly. Sorry if it caused anyone distress.

freevlog:

Super easy video embeds with Wordpress 2.9

tomreynolds:

OMG! The first Apple Tablet review is here and apparently its perfect!

Epic Fu returns!

Welcome back Steve and Zadi!  We missed you!

Television networks, despite being mired in a distribution and business model first unveiled at the 1939 Worlds Fair, have some good ideas. One of those good ideas is cross-promotion.

Television networks use anywhere from five to fifteen percent of their advertising inventory to promote shows other than the one you’re currently watching. They do this to launch new shows, grow the audiences of troubled shows and build on the success of successful shows.

Starting this week we’re starting to experiment with ways to help shows build their audiences through cross-promotion. We’re doing this by reserving a small percentage of ad inventory (overlay and postroll) for promotion.

Our initial test will promote only a small number of shows. If this initial test is successful we will gradually expand the program to cover an increasing number of shows. We haven’t yet developed formal criteria for participation, but we’re generally looking for high quality shows that are either already proven to be very sticky (in other words they’ll make the most of each incremental viewer) or brand new shows that need an extra boost.

We’ll be running these promos on all shows that are opted into overlay or postroll advertisements. They will not preempt — in fact, they will be preempted by — high paying advertisements. They may occasionally preempt low paying “filler” ads that we use when there are no appropriate ads to show to a particular viewer or in a particular situation.

We’re optimistic that this experiment will give us new weapons with which to build show audiences. Let us know what you think.

itsthemusic:

the show with zefrank

Jonathan Coulton sings the songs of Ze Frank

It’s Friday!  Let’s all take a break and enjoy a classic episode of The Show circa March 2007.

Quarterly blip.tv payouts to content creators have been sent!  If you earned more than $600 between October & December 2009, your check was mailed out today.  If you made between $25 and $600, the money has been sent to you via paypal (if you gave us your paypal address by 11:59pm December 31st), thanks to an elegant new payout system built by blip.tv co-founder Charles Hope (@charleshope).

This is the largest payout to content creators in blip.tv history.

If you haven’t opted into advertising on blip.tv, now is a good time.  And if you’re a content creator, know that our goal is to help make your show sustainable.  Few companies enjoy sending out checks: for us, it’s a privilege.

We are proud to be part of Boxee’s announcement at CES today that their beta has officially gone public.  Boxee can now be downloaded for Windows, Mac and Linux.

Blip.tv shows have been available on Boxee for a while, but we now have a spiffy new blip.tv Boxee App that makes it easy to search for shows by genre or by name.  Check it out!

If you live in New York and haven’t been to one of the Boxee meet-ups, you should.  The excitement around what Boxee is doing, and what it means about the future of television, is real.  Avner, Andrew, Zach, and the rest of the Boxee team are great entrepreneurs, innovating in all the right ways.  We’re glad to be along for the ride as they disrupt the status quo and offer people more choice about what to watch on their TV sets.

freevlog:

Via: @papyromancer

oldjewstellingjokes:

The 10 Best Jokes of 2009

These are our ten favorite jokes from the past year, in no particular order.  They’ll run one after the other, so click play, sit back, and relax!  Thank you for making Old Jews Telling Jokes such a success.

itsthemusic:

Noisemakers on Noisevox:  Top 20 Songs of 2009 Countdown

Part 1:  Songs 20 - 11 with analysis, interviews and live performances

How To Make A Web Series While Drunk

A very special episode of Polyester Dreams.

mikehudack:

ericmortensen:

Panoramic shot of blipHQ.

If you haven’t checked out Blip.tv Wraps Up Whirlwind 2009 with a Sold Out December, check it out. It’s a great article.

Things are going well. But, as Eric Mortensen, our Director of Content, points out: there’s still a lot of work to do. That’s an understatement. 2009 has been an amazing year for independent video, and it’s been an amazing year for blip. But — and this is incredibly important — there is a ton of work left to do.

We’re working hard to build the next-generation television network. CBS began broadcasting television in 1941. The television model — defined as it is by scarce linear distribution — hasn’t changed appreciably in 68 years. It’s about time that television gets shaken up the way that the music industry, the publishing industry and almost every other great American industry has been shaken up.

We see a day in the relatively near future where you can watch any independently produced show — let’s not call them TV shows or Web shows — on your television. Using your remote control. It shouldn’t matter whether you choose to use cable or IPTV or Boxee or Roku or TiVo or your Internet-connected television set or your game console. You should be able to seamlessly switch from watching “NCIS” on CBS to watching “Meet the Mayfarers” from blip.tv.

And as a talented individual or small group you should be able to produce a show — a sitcom, a news magazine, a how-to show, a drama, a sci-fi show, you name it — and get the same distribution that CBS enjoys for the shows they invest millions of dollars in. You should be able to access audiences with the same ease. People should be able to watch your show wherever and however and whenever they please. And you should have access to major national advertisers to fund the show, just like CBS does.

Put simply: the playing field will level out. The intrinsic advantage of the television networks — scarce linear distribution — is eroding. It is being replaced by infinite distribution. By an economy of plenty. And this is already benefiting and will increasingly benefit the “little guy.” It’ll benefit independent producers and it will benefit audiences who will get more choice than ever before.

There are inherent challenges that we still face. Discovery is going to be a big issue as we move a big catalog — tens of thousands of shows and millions of episodes — to the television set. We’re going to have to double down on our relationships with our growing list of distribution partners. We’re going to have to deliver significant and meaningful value to advertisers and to show creators and to distribution partners. We’re going to have to grow without losing our soul.

And, of course, we face considerable execution risk. Blip and independent Web shows in general are making great strides. 2009 has been a banner year. But it’s not over. It’s not done. This is all about being heads-down and executing.

We’re incredibly humbled by the support that our partners have given us. By the faith that show creators have put in us thus far. The faith that our distribution partners and advertisers have put in us. And we hope that we’re delivering. If not, e-mail us. We’ll work very hard to make you happy. We want you to be happy. And it’s only through you telling us what we’re screwing up that we can become better.

It’s my hope, our hope, that we can continue earning the trust of show creators. Of distribution partners and of advertisers. But we know this: content creators form the core of blip. Without show creators blip simply would not exist.

Thanks guys! It’s an honor to be included in the Fierce 15!

We just released a new version of the blip.tv dashboard. There are a number of enhancements included in this new release. They include: a new Episode Manager, greatly improved playlist support, and support for distribution to Boxee directly from within the Dashboard.

A number of shows have been distributing to Boxee for the last several months through blip, but now the feature is truly available to everyone (subject to approval by the blip.tv content team).

Some details on the release:

• The new Episode Manager
  • Drag & drop episodes into playlists
  • Create playlists on the fly
  • Add episodes to playlists during upload
  • Drive custom players and embeds off of playlists
• Boxee distribution
  • Apply for distribution to Boxee from within the Dashboard
  • Distribute new episodes to Boxee with a checkbox on the upload form
  • Distribute your back catalog to Boxee with batch editing in the Episode Manager
• Upgraded revenue statistics, including eCPM

We believe that the new playlist features are really going to drive some interesting things. You can now organize seasons, themes, anything you want. Customize feeds and players based on those playlists. You can have a Season 1 Player, a Season 2 Player… a Dirty Jokes Player and a Really Dirty Jokes Player. And, of course, knowing your eCPM and distributing to Boxee can’t hurt ;-)

One really important caveat: The new eCPM reporting reports your earnings per thousand video views across all your video views, including the ones we’re unable to serve ads on. Read Optimizing your show’s revenue for information on how to increase your eCPM (tip: make sure more video views happen in the blip player).

There’s another new release already being worked on that will, among other things, bring Sony Consumer Electronics (Sony Bravia TVs and Blu-Ray players) and Verizon FiOS Video on Demand into the Dashboard. TV distribution is going to be important in 2010!

The problem affecting dashboard statistics has now been resolved, and statistics should be displaying normally again.

Learn more about Roku distribution.

We’re in the process of moving our statistics over to a new set of database servers. This is part of a multi-step effort aimed at improving the speed of the statistics system. When it is complete, we expect that you will see a noticeable improvement in the speed of the graphs on your dashboard.

Unfortunately, because of a problem in the migration process, we need to recompute statistics for the past few days. What this means is that if you’re watching your statistics, you’ll see some fairly strange behavior. Initially, your views for the first few days of December will drop to zero. Then, they will climb slowly back to the correct values. We estimate that this may take as much as 12 hours. Some additional work may also be necessary to correct some of summary figures.

Once the repair process is complete, your statistics should be correct and complete once again.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Stay tuned.

http://support.blip.tv/forums/78032/entries/84740

UPDATE:  Problem solved

Blip is serving more major advertising campaigns in December than ever before. If you’re a show creator on blip you should opt in to advertising now. If you’re a show creator who’s not on blip you should move over.

A show with 100,000 views per month (mostly in the Flash player and in the US) should earn $1,000 or more per month if opted in. Revenue scales up and down with views. There are shows on blip making more than $100,000 a year.

Ads in December come from a wide range of top national brands. They’ve been sold by our rockstar direct sales team which is led by Evan Gotlib. Brands include Chevrolet, Canon, History Channel, Scion and more.

This Thanksgiving, there’s more than one big turkey at Mason’s place.

A Life from the Inside Thanksgiving special from KATR Pictures.

Hear the original music from this short at the KATR blog.

Are you great at ad sales? Do you have relationships with the New York agency community? Ready to close new business, grow existing business and beat aggressive revenue targets? Have you spent the last couple years selling ads on the Interwebs? Ready for your next challenge?

If so we’ve got a job for you! We’re looking for an Account Manager to join our sales team. The position will be based in New York and will focus on the New York agency community.

You’ll be part of a small but quickly growing national sales team that currently covers everywhere from Seattle to Florida. Current clients include Toyota, History Channel, Chili’s, Hornitos, TJ Maxx, Nikon, Canon and, of course, more. And we’re just getting started.

This is an awesome opportunity to help build a really big business, deliver real value to advertisers and — most importantly — help make independent Web shows sustainable. You’ll be changing lives and making it possible for people to pursue their passions. It’s an amazing feeling.

You can apply through LinkedIn or e-mail evan AT blip DOT teevee to apply. Include a resume and a short cover letter. Make sure to mention Tumblr in your e-mail (ideally in the subject) so that we know to pay extra special attention.

We’re also still looking for an excellent ad ops person to make sure we execute well on all the campaigns our sales team is selling. Let us know if you’re that person or know that person.

Making a Web Series: The Story, The Outline, The Script

Yuri Baranovsky is funny guy and I couldn’t resist quoting this passage.  Despite making with the jokes, this is a very useful post that should be read by anyone making a web series.  So useful that I’m going to link to it on blip.tv’s support page.

(via ericmortensen)

The blip.tv sales team has been crushing it. So much so that for the first time in our history we’re set to serve an ad for every single available impression on almost every show that’s opted into advertising on blip. The only exception? Postrolls. We’re not going to be serving very many postrolls. So you’ve got to be opted into preroll and overlay in order to take advantage of our sales team’s crushing it.

Advertisers include Best Buy, Chili’s, MetroPCS, Toyota Scion, Canon, Nikon, The History Channel and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. And more.

This means that it’s time for show creators to opt into more advertising formats and take other steps to maximize their revenue. Because there’s money to be had! There are shows on blip who are already using blip ad revenue to help pay the rent and even live on. Results will, of course, vary. Some shows make only a penny. Other shows make tens of thousands of dollars.

So read Optimizing your show’s revenue on the blip.tv support site. Then go and opt into preroll and overlay ads. There are high quality, high paying ads available for you.

Blip.tv is looking for an ad operations rock star. Our sales team has been crushing it and we need an operations star to also crush it.

The position is Director of Advertising Operations. The right person will work daily with sales, content, technology and our executive management team along with our advertising partners to execute all aspects of ad ops and trafficking. We use FreeWheel for our ad serving, so familiarity with them is a major plus. Expertise in DART or Atlas is easily transferrable, though.

Our expectation is that you’ll make ad ops and trafficking look easy. We also expect that you’ll make our clients (agencies like Starcom and Digitas and Initiative, brands like TJ Maxx and Scion and Nikon) really happy.

And here’s the kicker: not only will you be part of building a really big business, you’ll also be helping great companies sell great products. Most importantly, though, you’ll be helping make independent Web shows sustainable. You’ll be changing lives and making truly independent media truly sustainable. If that isn’t exciting I don’t know what is.

We’re 18 people in a SoHo loft and one guy out in California. We’ve got a really collegiate culture and we buy lunch for everyone every day. We’re backed by some of the Skype guys and by Bain Capital Ventures. We serve more than eighty million video views a month across a massively distributed network which includes YouTube, Vimeo, iTunes, TiVo, FiOS, NBC Local Broadcast and Sony Consumer Electronics (TVs and Blu-Ray players). We work with more than 50,000 independent Web shows.

We are building the next-generation television network. Read more about blip, take a tour of the Show Creator Dashboard and check out our EPK.

If you’re interested please drop me an e-mail (mike AT blip DOT teevee) with your resume and let me know that you found out about this opening on Tumblr. It’ll be points in your favor. And if you know anyone good please make an introduction.

blip.tv on the roku at NewTeeVee Live.  (Thanks to roku and the great folks at NewTeeVee.)  Photo by Zach Harris.

Revenue reporting is currently running behind, which means you may be seeing revenue reported as “zero” from October 31st on. Don’t worry though, all revenue is still being recorded and will be available for review in the Dashboard sometime on 11/10.

Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. If you have any questions, please open a case at support.blip.tv or send an email to support/at/blip.tv.

UPDATE:  Ad revenue reporting is fully caught up.  Sorry for the inconvenience.

Thanks to everyone who joined the blip.tv bash last night!  And big thanks to Sabrina Chapman for making the event possible, and to the Mocca Lounge for great hosting.  (Photo courtesy of SBE Photography.)

Revenue reporting is currently down for maintenance, which means you may be seeing revenue reported as “zero” from October 31st on. Don’t worry though, all revenue is still being recorded and will be available for review in the Dashboard once maintenance is complete.

Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. Please email support/at/blip.tv or visit support.blip.tv with comments/questions.

UPDATE: Revenue statistics are now being calculated and should begin reappearing in the Dashboard. Thanks for your patience.

Coming soon to a Dashboard near you: a new episode grid and vastly improved playlists. Expect this to drop in about a week.

Meanwhile we have a new release going out at 3:30 today. It includes a slew of bug fixes, a stats collection upgrade, upgraded Facebook integration (support for Pages!) and a few upgrades that should make videos start faster (especially on autoplay).

blip.tv hosted 80.8mm video views in October.  Thank you to all of the uber-talented people creating great shows: this number is about you and the power of independent media.

Life From The Inside’s classic Halloween special “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Mason”

“Even the most beloved Halloween special ever made has a horrifying dark side.”

Congrats to Jennifer Schooley and the entire organization behind Podcamp Pittsburgh.  We were proud to sponsor the conference, 362 people strong, and just wonder about that Hulk Hogan nametag…

Customer support is a key part of our business.  But it’s not just a way to help users quickly solve problems. It’s also a great way to connect with people and learn how we can best help them produce the next great web series.  That’s why we’ve decided to upgrade our customer support system.

You’ll still be able to get great support via email at support@blip.tv, but now you’ll be able pursue additional options via the Web at support/at/blip.tv, too.  I think you’ll find the new system to be a significant improvement.  Please leave us a comment letting us know what you think about the transition and stay tuned for more info.

freakcast:

designchick:

Ok. Be prepared to have your mind changed about Die Antwoord forever.

back-to-front-bum demon

Unreleased feature film featuring Timothy Leary gets new life as web series

Medium Rare tells the story of Harry, a B-movie producer who uses a microwave oven to keep a punk from wrecking his wife’s career. But instead of silencing the punk, he creates a killer with superpowers. Among the cast are Burt Young, Alex Winter and Timothy Leary.

(via ericmortensen)

Very Mary Kate (via schlomo)

Gadfly - a view on the efficacy of social intimacy on the self

verdi:

HOLY FUCK BRIAN!

Wild Natures | Wreck & Salvage

Russian WTF? (thanks to @angusm)

Guy Bourdin

freakcast:

Taken from the new Broadcast and The Focus Group mini album ‘Broadcast and The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio Age’ out now to download on Bleep and iTunes and released worldwide on CD and LP on 26th October 2009. Video by House.

Richard Kern - X is Y

claytoncubitt:

Black bunny up in bed, Brooklyn

(via catchthatbeat)

POLYBIUS ( 2010)
MUSIC: TR1C3
VIDEO: RAQUEL MEYERS

poortaste:

Ganja White Night - Peace by Fear
Super Jail Bad Trip Remix
http://www.myspace.com/gwnofficial

via dubstepfriday

Of course, you can also use:

TWITTER . VODPOD . ITUNES . MIRO . FRIENDFEED . EMAIL . MYSPACE

With the planet still reeling from the World Wide Orgasm, the ruthless Stephanie Blommaert seeks revenge upon Jef Garaway, whose kinky dreams about her mysteriously wound up on the internet. But is she prepared for the metasexual showdown that awaits her? Or will Jef drag her kicking and screaming in ecstasy into THE FOLD…

GIvenchy Couture

bigboxcar:

selleckwaterfallsandwich:

Featured Sandwich: Meatloaf

Brilliant Tumblr: http://selleckwaterfallsandwich.tumblr.com/

the art of self-destruction

mikehudack:

mrmattenlow:

marchustvedt:

this goes down as the worst web series I’ve seen yet.

It’s the best at being the worst.

“Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite” by Burnkit 2600
Utilizing Internet Moving Images / Perlinger Archive

schlomo:

Flooded McDonald’s on Vimeo (via Vimeo)

ericmortensen:

Coilhouse  » Jo Boobs Teaches the Va-Va Voom!

Jo is cool. She does a great job of explaining the contemporary burlesque world in this episode of Syndicate of Human Image Traffickers.

ericmortensen:

filmnotebook:

Towers Open Fire

Directed by Anthony Balch from a script by William S. Burroughs (1963)— experimental montage, semi-derived from the text of The Soft Machine featuring readings by Burroughs, amongst other non-sensika from Brion Gysin.

Posted by X C ÉMOND

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Film Notebook / Related articles
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michkotumblr:

Nightmare Before Valentine | ‘Früchte Im Koma’ by ViDEOGRUPPE

Une pièce pour trois femmes, trois animaux et des fruits et légumes.

wreckandsalvage:

Keep It Clean

The three of us in the same small room, farming for one hour on the topic of “hygiene”, editing for a couple hours with Nelson and Valdez tag-teaming the FCP and Quirk on Premiere.

Download:

Quicktime | iPod | Windows | Audio MP3

nooken:

Not bad, not bad at all

(via WATCHWOMEN)

Global Fashion Tour

Salvador Dali: “It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.”

zeigarnik:

crtnysmth:

erikanize:

zanapod:buddhabrot:thediamondmind:kaleidoscopedreams—:i-love-art

re-produktion remiks theory by rubeck EDIT version

Video by Raquel Meyers. High Skull Boys: Tito Tinsly, Jose Morraja, Raul BB.

zeigarnik:

billyjane:

Man Ray ~Jacqueline Goddard,c.1934

(via flyingkites)

RUBECK VJ SHOWREEL 2007

(via wordofcommand)

thebluepeninsula:

The Cool Hunter - Illustrator Dan Stafford

These kinds of ideas would so come out of my head!

zeigarnik:

arsvitaest:

crashinglybeautiful:

liquidnight:

(via picassoswoman)

whatategilbertg:

MALICE IN WONDERLAND

Malice in Wonderland is the work of experimental animator Vince Collins. The short film was made in 1983 but it without a doubt one of the most trippy animation sequences ever released to the public. Don’t play this one if you have your boss looking over your shoulder. If you are into psychedelic art, prepare for some serious mind-blowing inspiration.

Woah! Someone was definitely trippin’ when they made this. Reminds me a ittle bit of Pink Floyd The Wall, the cartoon sequences. Might not be suitable for young children, well…definitely not.

meneo

The band members are Rigo Pex, who plays direct gameboy reggaetón and electro-dancehall, produced on stage with vocoders, keytars and lo-fi toys. Along comes VJ Fruity Booty, a liger (50% lion, 50% tiger) with a visual mission to flash your eyes with his made-to-measure vjing application that’s been the envy of many on several video art festivals.

This leads to a hot and spicy atmosphere that sometimes has motivated the two performers and some of the crowd to experience disorderly conduct, like taking off their clothes completely while playing and dancing, zooming the attendants into a deep and full flavored rhythm vibe.

cornpone:

bl00p… blUp… bl00p…   #.3.8.

ericmortensen:

Tim & Eric’s Eric Wareheim directed a music video for Depeche Mode? I had no idea.

(via The 10 Most NSFW Music Videos Of 2009 | Stereogum)

hahaclever:

“An animation I made on an Amiga 500 with 1mg memory in early 90’s with friend’s music, recorded to VHS tape”

via elizabeth skadden

Weekly Rites CXXVIII - beached

MUSIC: GOTO80
VIDEO: RAQUEL MEYERS
2009

omnialx:

Fear and Loathing in Eternia

Jalouse & Garance au Chelsea Hotel

merlin:

Screamin’ Jay Hawkins - “I Put a Spell On You”

SPACE TREE #059: The Memory Tree

Somebody give these guys a gig on Adult Swim.  The WTF factor virtually guarantees them a spot.

zeigarnik:

via designobserver.com

ericmortensen:

Space - Magic Fly (1977)

It’s as if Daft Punk and Air went back in time and collaborated on a song and video in 1977.  This is the coolest thing you’ll see/hear today.

Apocalypto

Reviews of FastMall, Lexic, ZenBound, VoiceBand, KERN and Slango

This week the girls have some fantastic apps that you may want to try. From the clever VoiceBand to the helpful FastMall.

via Apps and Hats

Radio iPhone Demonstration

Listen to over 40,000 radio stations anywhere in the world and search stations using a powerful new search engine.

via Daily App Show

Thanks for joining us. We’re justing getting started. Please let us know what kinds of apps you’d like to see reviewed:  http://dapperapps.tumblr.com/ask

Raging Thunder 2 app review

Awesome iPhone app racing game that will get your heart pounding.

via Crazy Mike’s Apps

TouchOSC used to manipulate beats in realtime

[via] (via glueslabs) (via onyxashanti)

The application allows to remote control and receive feedback from software and hardware that implements the OSC protocol such as Pure Data, Max/MSP/Jitter, OSCulator, VDMX, Resolume Avenue 3, Modul8, Plogue Bidule, Reaktor, Quartz Composer, Vixid VJX16-4, Supercollider, FAW Circle, vvvv, Derivative TouchDesigner and others.  The application comes with five default layouts that are organized in multiple pages but custom layouts can be constructed using the TouchOSC Editor application.

The Jerky Boys iPhone App

That’s right tough guy, you heard me - The Jerky Boys are here, in a new and mobile way! Now you can have all the fun of Frank Rizzo, Jack Tors and Sol Rosenberg in the palm of your hand. 

via Daily App Show

The Terrible Triplets App Review

There’s triple the trouble, and triple the fun, in this delightful interactive storybook with original characters, illustrations and music especially created for the iPhone.
Aimed at 3-104 year olds this iphone app gives kids the chance to learn by reading and interacting with the screen and letting their imaginations run wild.

via Kid App Reviews

The girls review some amazing apps this week, from LEGOphoto to SocialFlyr, and Hotel Mogul which is a game Christine just can’t put down!

via Apps and Hats