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Dancing tango to Eminem
posted on Jun 29, 2008 - View this thread
Carlos Gardel was a singer who became a national icon of Argentina. He sang the tango among other styles, but would now be most famous for this, which was originally this. (Lyrics here.)
For those of you who think this is all too romantic, listen to another side of tango...(Translation here.)
posted on Aug 1, 2007 - View this thread
“Thirty-six characters from different stages of life - representations of different times - interact in one room, moving in loops, observed by a static camera. I had to draw and paint about 16.000 cell-mattes, and make several hundred thousand exposures on an optical printer. It took a full seven months, sixteen hours per day, to make the piece”[ source]: Zbig Rybczynski on the making of his award winning (and much imitated) animation "Tango "(YT, mildly NSFW).
posted on Jun 19, 2007 - View this thread
La Cumparsita Reputedly the most famous tango in existence, La Cumparista isn't just elegant, exquisite and sublime, it also once raised significant copyright concerns, a debate to which this collection doesn't add anything at all. Been ninety years (Spanish) since the tango was written.
posted on Jun 2, 2007 - View this thread
En tus brazos - a sweet tango. [flash]
posted on Nov 23, 2006 - View this thread
TANGO'D! remember that awesome sony advert with all the bouncy balls in san francisco?
well british drink firm tango have made an great parody of it. however, the residents of swansea north, where the ad was filmed, are not too happy. beautiful music provided by josé gonzalez (review) . [via]
posted on May 25, 2006 - View this thread