My brief break between jobs was restful and fun. Rode my bike every day, exercised every day, and had some fun adventures. Not a bad time, but I’m ready to start a new, longer adventure at work in my new job. I’ll be doing Product Development at a new company. I’ll be doing a lot of the same sorts of work, but I’ll have the backing to really push for more change.
Atlanta/Brooklyn!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elafeeA3QFE
I usually like to post videos, but I’m so excited by this collaboration. Run the Jewels is Killer Mike & El-P. It’s awesome and it’s totally free. Go to the FoolsGold website and download it now.
Here’s a video by A-Trak, also on FoolsGold.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_GbYR5Aud4Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emm8qdUTLeU
How’d that video get made?
Professor Kliq was a music student at the University of Chicago. He released a couple of albums under a Creative Commons license so that people could feel free to copy them and use the music without having to ask his permission. It’s worked out well for him – he’s gotten gigs doing soundtracks, gotten invited to do concerts, received donations, all without a major label backing him. When Chris Acton and I were doing the Hope for Hotties movie, Professor Kliq was an easy choice for the soundtrack.
Victor Hagelin is a french speaking animator. No idea how he found the track, but he just made a video for it. He didn’t ask permission or negotiate for the rights – he just made it, because Creative Commons works.
And then Professor Kliq got worked up and remastered the track to bring it up to date, and that’s how we get Wire and Flashing Lights:
People say “They don’t make ’em like that anymore.” They are wrong.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLPjQCW2Zls
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYAeumfkxxk
This is a good mix of soft singing from Kimya Dawson and the rhyme tornado of Aesop.
Also, catchy as hell.
I like music videos that can’t be on MTV. The new web enables new art, and that’s what I’m interested in.
You will interact, you will be part of it. Go now – and I’ll be part of the video with you. We’ll play a game, we’ll be a mask, we’ll fight a boxer, together we will make a smile. One of those pointers is mine!
See you on the internet…
Oh, I laughed at it the first time I saw this video.
Some sort of captain-planet style arrangement of Daler Mehndi meteorite brothers dancing in a CGI hellscape?
Years later, I’m still listening to the damn thing. It was my first Pandora station.
Not just me. Here’s a metal version.
And here’s your soundtrack for your lunch hour: 1 hour and 30 minutes of Tunak Tunak Tun.
We went to the Nick Cave concert Friday night with Rob and Sleep Goblin. You know how good he is, how much I like the Mercy Seat. This is his new jam.
The video really reminds me Clayton Cubitt‘s trailer for Warren Ellis’s Gun Machine.
I’m gonna brag a little and say I knew Katie Hasty when. She’s rolled with the Old Dirty Barristers and she’s good peeps. I had to share her latest video because it has stepped hard on all my buttons. My buttons might be a little cracked, so hard has she stepped.
This upbeat banger from Numbers and Letters is all about Kittens, Sex, Fail – the most popular search terms on the internet.
From their description:
This lyric video was designed to make use of the three of the most popular SEO-friendly terms: “kitten,” “sex” and “fail.” They are among the internet collective’s favorite things to search for. At times, they are interchangeable, full of meaning and without meaning. Congratulations, us.
This video was made possible through Creative Commons-licensed content and the contributions of Numbers And Letters fans. Cats cats cats
BTW – she does the right thing and cites her sources in the youtube page. GO KATIE! Buy the album when it comes out in APRIL.. WTF?