Pretty paint is pretty.

This is mesmerizing. Watch it full screen, and your brain will go a little wobbly. I like.



(via b3ta.com)

Help Olga make an album.

She's adorable and talented. (I couldn't resist after watching the video.)



About this project

LAMP is a full-length album by Olga Nunes-- and it's also a story built around the music, told through letters, art installations, and short films. In Chapter One of LAMP, you are introduced to Lamp and Lux, two people who haven't spoken to each other in a very long time. One day Lux receives a package that she thinks can only have come from him. So, she decides to write him a letter. The only problem is, she doesn't know how or where to find him-- so she puts a message in a bottle, ties it to a balloon, and releases it into the sky.

What happens next? I want you to be part of the story.

Every person who donates to the LAMP Kickstarter (to help turn the album and story into reality!) will be invited to submit their old love letters, and help create the backstory of Lamp and Lux. Additionally, I'm holding a balloon release event in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, where people (and maybe you!) will release one hundred of Lux's letters into the sky. Not in SF? No problem. I'll be documenting all the letters in the story and filming the event, so you can follow it through YouTube and through the website.

My minimum target goal to raise through Kickstarter is $3000-- which covers the bare minimum needed for mastering, album production, and part of the costs to create and film Chapter One. The more you donate and the more backers I have, the more you ensure there will be a Chapter Two and Chapter Three, and you get to see how this all ends. There are lots of rewards to choose from if you decide to support LAMP, and if I exceed my minimum goal, I'll begin introducing super special secret unlocked rewards.

You can listen to more of my music here: http://olganunes.bandcamp.com
And you can see a special trailer for Chapter One of LAMP, including part of the first single, in the video above.


LAMP by Olga Nunes — Kickstarter

Simon's Cat in "The Box"

(via Boing Boing)

Words.

This is really fun and lovely once you catch on...


Everynone

Difficult difficult lemon difficult.

"Talk to that Chad boy. The boy from The Shining. He knows things."

And, in case you need a daily reminder, perhaps a cross stitch will help.



(Cross stitch by the brilliant shootcoward on flickr.)

The Tiny Transforming Apartment.

24 different rooms in 330 square feet. I'd seen online features about this over the last year, but seeing it on video is MINDBENDING.



Flavorwire Video of the Day: The Tiny Transforming Apartment

How To Be Alone.

This video was made to the poem, How to be Alone, by Tanya Davis (2009).

Lovely.

I heart meerkats.

AdFreak: Meerkats go massive in epic U.K. ad trilogy

U900 – a fab Japanese ukelele duo.

The fact that they're crocheted makes it even better.



(via my buddy, oneplusinfinity)

Fun vids.

I like.

OK Go - This Too Shall Pass.

If you don't love OK Go, you should. I'm just saying.



Directed by James Frost, OK Go and Syyn Labs. Produced by Shirley Moyers. The official video for the recorded version of "This Too Shall Pass" off of the album "Of the Blue Colour of the Sky". The video was filmed in a two story warehouse, in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, CA. The "machine" was designed and built by the band, along with members of Synn Labs over the course of several months.

p.s. Kudos to State Farm: A good neighbor helps OK Go go viral again.

twit THAT!

This is possibly the most awesome clean energy advocacy video I have ever seen. It beats Obama making tons of speeches, to be very frank. Obama has his way of getting the message across (or not). Being the president, it's not likely he'd say "vote this, because the jerks won't want you to", but certainly there are some lessons to be learned from this video.

What makes an advocacy video effective is that it can relates to people, not just some high moral lessons, boring doctrinal lecture.

Here's a few points where this video gets me:

humor,

twit THAT,

'your senators... they don't even know how to use emails',

very very easy sharing options for multiple social networks and for emailing senators! ( you don't even have to search for your senator's email address);

and huge bonus point: Justin Long "on a mac or whatever kind of computers, regardless", and of course, wait till the very end...... "I love you" ---- how could you NOT be sold on that??!!

Therefore, please enjoy the video:

One Year in 90 Seconds.

From Oslo, Norway.



(via Huffington Post)

A Computer Love Story.

Awww.



(via Streamings)

Music by birds.

Yes, I'm late to the game on this one. But, in case anyone else is, too, I'm posting it.

Reading a newspaper, I saw a picture of birds on the electric wires. I cut out the photo and decided to make a song, using the exact location of the birds as notes (no Photoshop edit). I knew it wasn't the most original idea in the universe. I was just curious to hear what melody the birds were creating.

I sent the music to the photographer, Paulo Pinto, who I Googled on the internet. He told his editor, who told a reporter and the story ended up as an interview in the very same newspaper.

Here I've posted a short video made with the photo, the music and the score (composed by the birds).

Birds on the Wires from Jarbas Agnelli on Vimeo.

(via Utne Reader)

It's a "So What" kinda day.

Miles and Trane make rainy days better.



"So What" is the first track on the 1959 Miles Davis and John Coltrane album Kind of Blue and is often credited as one of his best works.

It is one of the most well-known examples of modal jazz, set in the Dorian mode and consisting of 16 bars of D minor7, followed by eight bars of Eb minor7 and another eight of D minor7. This AABA structure puts it in the format of popular song structure.

The piano and bass introduction for the piece was written by Gil Evans for Bill Evans and Paul Chambers on Kind of Blue. An orchestrated version by Gil Evans of this introduction is later to be found on a television broadcast given by Miles' Quintet (minus Cannonball Adderley who was ill that day) and the Gil Evans Orchestra; the orchestra gave the introduction after which the quintet produced a rendition of the rest of "So What".

The distinctive voicing employed by Bill Evans for the chords that interject the head, from the bottom up three perfect fourths followed by a major third, has been given the name "So What chord" by such theorists as Mark Levine.

While the track is taken at a very moderate tempo on Kind Of Blue, it is played at an extremely fast tempo on later live recordings by the Quintet, such as Four and More.

The same chord structure was later used by John Coltrane for his standard "Impressions".

YouTube - So What - John Coltrane and Miles Davis

(Thanks to PK for the reminder.)

Video: 1930’s Futuristic Fashion Predictions.

Worth watching just for the voiceover. The fashion is gravy.



Flavorwire :: Video: 1930’s Futuristic Fashion Predictions

BoingBoing Video: "The People Tree," David Byrne / NASA Project

Great song. Great animation. Great video. I like.

F is for Fail.

A treat for the eyes this Monday morning. (I wish I could embed the video, but no such luck.)




Veer: Ideas: F is for Fail, by Brent Barson by Anders J. Svensson

Tilt shift video.

Lovely song. Lovely video.




This is a personal project that would not have been possible without the support of the Westpac Rescue Helicopter Service. Thanks to the entire team for their generous access during training exercises and patrols this Summer. Since the Service began in 1973, it has carried out more than 21,000 missions ranging from urgent patient transfers to dangerous search and rescue missions.

The Service depends entirely on the generous support of sponsors and the community to stay flying. Donations can be made here:
lifesaver.org.au/funding_challenge/donate.html

The time-lapse flight sequences in this film would not be possible without the skill and patience of Chief Pilot Peter Yates. Thanks also to Trevor Cracknell (for getting wet!) and Family.

Music:

“CLEMENTINE” (Megan Washington)
Performed by Washington
© 2008 J Albert & Son Pty Limited
Used with permission

Vimeo: Keith Loutit - Bathtub IV.

(via Tiny Showcase)