Four weeks ago,
the video for Radiohead's Lotus Flower went up on YouTube. It's a simple thing, black and white, starting off with a silhouetted dancer who turns out to be Thom Yorke. The formerly "
very shy and uncertain" fellow has since turned into
a back-up dancer for Beyonce,
makes Window Licker a bit less creepy*, and
is a dancing queen. There's
a step-by-step graphic break-down of Thom's dance (descriptions in French,
auto-translated by Babelfish and
alternate descriotion in English),
a detailed break-down of Yorke's influences,
a tumblr of 150 dancing Thom video edits and mash-ups, and
a Know Your Meme page.
[more inside]
posted by filthy light thief
on Mar 9, 2011 -
27 comments
According to
Comics Alliance, 'if you missed the teaser footage from the Avengers panel at Comic-Con it's
online (for now)!' But who would want to watch the real teaser trailer when there are so many fake ones to select from?
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posted by eccnineten
on Aug 4, 2010 -
31 comments
Corey Arcangel is perhaps the internet's most
infamous hack,
masher-upper,
digi/net artist.
His work stands for a
growing culture of artists who
run wildly through
animated GIF landscapes populated with corrupted
data-compressed bunny rabbits and tinny, MIDI
renditions of Savage Garden ballads. As the
Lisson Gallery, London, opens its archives to Arcangel's curatorial eye, could digi/net
art be set to
infect the real,
fleshy world, like a rampant
Conficker Worm? Has
YouTube become the truest reflection of our
anthropological selves? Are we destined to roam the int3erw£bs like the
mythic beasts of yore, hoping,
in time, that
digi art can free us from the confines of this fleshy void?
[...
previously]
posted by 0bvious
on Dec 8, 2009 -
20 comments
Last week,
Eddy Temple Morris, a DJ on UK radio station
XFM, challenged Twitter to remix as many songs as possible into 10 minutes. The previous record was held by Wizard of
Deekline and Wizard - it is now held by rapper, producer and all-round renaissance man
Akira the Don, who managed to fit a staggering 210 tracks into 1/6 of an hour. He's just put together a video to accompany the mix -
watch it here
posted by muggsy1079
on Aug 26, 2009 -
22 comments
Virtual Tourism: A mashup of YouTube travel videos of individual sites, their aerial location via Google Maps and text from Wikipedia. It's Web 2.0-licious!
posted by Ogre Lawless
on Apr 3, 2007 -
4 comments
Grey Video: a further experimental mashup (this time, in video) of the Beatles and Jay Z, for the DJ Dangermouse song Encore. Looks almost as slick as the old Weezer Happy Days video by Spike Jonze.
posted by mathowie
on Nov 16, 2004 -
21 comments
