Music Blog Zeitgeist: 2010

Posted on January 12, 2011 Under Music

I ran into my friend Anthony from Hype Machine on a plane today, how random. Or maybe not so random! He just launched the Music Blog Zeitgeist for 2010. It's a collection of the very best music of 2010 as…

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Playbutton

Posted on November 19, 2010 Under Music

Playbutton: Why just play a record when you can wear it too? Very smart– I have a feeling this could be big.

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Tokyo In Timelapse

Posted on September 10, 2010 Under Travel

inter // states from Samuel Cockedey on Vimeo. One of my favorite cities shown off beautifully. Photography by Samuel Cockedy and music by Paul Frankland. Via Hypebeast

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The Wilderness Downtown

Posted on August 30, 2010 Under Music

This Google Chrome Experiment called The Wilderness Downtown is beyond awesome. Maybe the best piece of digital execution I have seen in several years. If I gave away screen shots, it would ruin it. Sit through the whole song by…

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Neo Gramophone

Posted on June 15, 2010 Under Art

The Neo Gramophone: Beautiful. Stunning, actually. Currently only available as a sculpture, but how about this for imagination: Playing vinyl back in the days the gramophone is now able to play your personal musical selection via streaming directly from itunes…

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Pyrography Stop Motion

Posted on May 21, 2010 Under Music

Check out this beautiful music video which was made using pyrogprahy (soldering images onto plywood) and stop motion. It averaged five hours of work per second shown. The song is If I Was King by Dutch indie rocker and singer-songwriter…

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The Nike Music Shoe

Posted on April 15, 2010 Under Music

The fact that these guys keep straight faces playing shoes is impressive. Somewhere in a top secret location in Tokyo, break beat music duo, HIFANA (composed of KEIZOmachine and JUICY) discovered that Nike Free Run+ running shoes can drop beats…

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Kanye West’s Street Lights Video

Posted on March 28, 2010 Under Music

The Kanye West - Street Lights video is gorgeous. Reminds me of walking around Tokyo jet lagged out of my mind.

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3D Soundclash: London

Posted on February 28, 2010 Under Music

How do we hear sound in three dimensions?  Check this video out, very interesting. People dancing to sounds moved around a room by a 3D joy-stick. Up to the ceiling and down through the ground.  Sophisticated and futuristic.

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Rockness Monsters by Ghostfuk3r

Posted on November 24, 2009 Under Art

David Carson's new installation show at the Beacon. Impressive, and awesome. See all the individual pieces of the show here. And a video of the opening night guitar smashing here. In his own words: I have always been interested in…

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