Girl Talk, how about GIRL WALK!

Great project from Jacob Krupnick, with help from Kickstarter, trying to make a music video in public space to the entirity of Girl Talk's All Day.  Check the video below, and donate to make this little bit of goodness a reality!


They even had a nice Q & A with Jacob about the project

via Laughing Squid

Art Defies GRAVITY

recreation of MC Escher's "Waterfalls"

Is it real??...is it an illusion...??? Either way entertaining

via Laughing Squid

just cause i love legos

MUSIC BOX, COME PLAY!!!

Um so this is AMAZING...and a really awesome waste of time....each square is a specific tone. 

Its a little beat machine based on a pentatonic scale which is seen traditionally in Asian music.  Its loads of fun...click some squares and GET CRAZY

via ISO50 and SEMBO

Simple Cute Ad for VW/Star Wars

Simple ad for VW, using a kid as Darth Vader...i liked it cause the kids seems UBER into his Darth Vader force attempts

New MUSIC, CHECKS IT, BIG K.R.I.T. and 2DopeBoyz

So Im a little late to the game, but check out BIG K.R.I.T. , some good southern Hip Hop. He killed the mixtape scene last year, releasing 2 of his own (The Last King, Good Talk Vol 9), and being featured on Curren$y's album Pilot Talk and Wiz Khalifa's acclaimed mixtape, Kush and Orange Juice. Then he got scooped up by Def Jam to record his first full length album, K.R.I.T. Wuz Here . Find a great reworking of his song "Hometown Hero" featuring Grillade, a funk/RB group.


Also on that note, check out 2dopeboyz.com an amazing blog about Hip Hop/Rap updated about every 5 min or so.  I was just turned onto it by some friends at work, who just happen to be the hippest/knowledgeable Jewish dudes I know when it comes to Hip Hop...Thanks dudes

G-mail read my E-mail....but the night was still GOOD

Ok, so the story goes

 I try to send an email, a gmail message pops up asking if I still wanted to send the message because I hadn't added an attachment.  I paused a bit confused as I hadn't wanted or meant to add an attachment.  SO I read on, and in the this gmail message it mentions that I received this message because I had typed "please find attached" within my email and gmail was just...double-checking.  I couldn't believe that gmail had scanned my email before I even sent it and then keyed on specific words.  If they knew to double check about the attachments, did they take something ELSE???  eh doesn't matter at this point, but still caught me a lil off guard.  A lillllllll off guard.

PS: we won our soccer game

PPS I got a random awesome call from a friend tonight. 

                                            St. Barts, 2010, Me

Song Poems...Next Trend to Hit...the 1950s...

been a bit of a blog catch up day...thanks/sorry work

"From 1900 to 2002 there has been an estimated 200,000 song-poems produced - There has yet to be a hit song among them"

Off the Charts, Independent Lens, Song Poems, PBS
A fascinating, at times unsettling, look at the strange underworld of the song-poem industry. 

Lets backtrack...Today I learned about Song Poems.  Maybe it aged me a bit for my lack of knowledge, but God Bless the Internet for making sure nothing is ever forgotten.

A Song Poem is the written word, put to music for a small fee.  It became quite popular through the mid 20th century here in the USA, with magazines and digests running ads.  Small recording studios would create the music and create records or full albums with the lyrics provided by those sent in.  Song subject matter ranges across the board, and I mean really across the board.

If you have a spare 55 min, watch the documentary PBS did on the subject because its AMAZING.  Truly a peak into a forgotten American world, it follows a number of characters within the Song Poem world.

IF YOU ONLY HAVE A FEW MIN, def watch the first 5 min, because you have to see Caglar Juan Singletary, and his song Non-Violent TaeKwonDo Troopers.    So HIGHlarious!

Sweet Transportation MUSIC

I have always had a love of Subway maps. My whole childhood we had the London Underground Route map in my house. Today, came upon this nice rework; Artist Alexander Chen turns the New York Subway into a Stringed Instrument in Conductor. Based on the actual routes, these criss crossing lines become strings to pluck and play with endless possibilities.  

Check out the video below to get a better understanding and DEF hit up the link below to see and play with the interactive version.

http://www.mta.me/

Just something Random and Cool, 1st Dark Skies Island in England

I didn't realize there was so much behind this, but there is actually a large organization (International Dark Skies Association, IDA) and over 300 countries, cities and states have been designated as a Dark Sky community.  Read more about it here on the Wiki site.

And now the official 1st island to get this designation was announced this week, the Channel Island of Stark, just off the south coast of England.

I think this is SUPER COOL.  I love the night sky, and the stars.  So enjoy learning:)

Article from Yahoo; http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzzlog/94259

PETA...sometimes a little much...NOT THIS TIME:)

PETA, 2011 SUPERBOWL AD CAMPAIGN

Great Ad for Superbowl and the promotion of loving Veggies:)  Great b-video video.