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
images embedded in music by aphex twin can be viewed on certain tracks using a spectograph. What initially was thought to be a hidden
demon face, turned out to actually be Richard D James' trademark, his
unnerving grinning visage. (
other examples are interesting). The images were embedded in the music using a program called
metasynth which allows you to do cool things like 'paint sound'. The secret images even inspired a reasonably interesting article at
wired.
The most remarkable thing to me is how the generally abrasive result of this process was blended so well into the tracks. I have listened to these many times myself and never sensed something off or odd about the sections with these embedded images in them (other than the usual odd sounds that make up the tracks themselves).
Wikipedia has a pretty good
article for those unfamiliar with the artist.
previously on mefl
here, but the content is old and that link dead so I thought it was worth another post.
posted by crunchywelch
on Apr 4, 2006 -
29 comments
