The Late Movies: Joni Mitchell, Then and Now
OK, I have a confession to make: I’m a big wuss and I love Joni Mitchell. It’s almost all my mom listened to while I was growing up, so even before I started discovering music on my own, I was pretty familiar with most of her stuff from the late 60s through the 80s. A [...]
Stop-Motion Video, One Printed Frame at a Time
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This clever music video of the song “Bad Apple” peformed by Nomico consists of stop-motion animation. Each frame is printed, as you can see from the image file numbers ticking away.
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Vancouver City
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Music by Serge Chubinski-Orlov, with vocals by Linda Ganzin. The beautiful time lapse video is a collaboration between the Innerlife Project and TimeLapseHD. Link -via Nag on the Lake
The Late Movies: Guitar Virtuosos
This is by no means a complete list — instead, it’s a collection of videos of my favorite guitarists doing their mind-bending thing, whether that be shredding, flatpicking, fingerpicking, playing the blues, or jazz, or classical. See if you can watch any of these videos without your jaw dropping a little!
Leo Kottke
One of the best [...]
7 Painful NFL Team Music Videos
In the quaint times before they had Twitter and YouTube at their disposal, NFL teams could only express themselves in one way: through terrible, terrible songs. For a stretch between 1985 and the early 1990s, group songs featuring football teams were at least as popular as the West Coast offense, and each tune had its [...]
80’s Movies’ Signature Songs
The decade that spawned MTV saw a serious shift in music from the previous one. Much of what was popular were new, untested bands that either had actual talent and thrived (Prince), or catchy one hit wonders (Harold Faltermeyer). The best of both of these worlds that pinned a song on a movie during the [...]
Documentaries I Like: Wesley Willis’s Joy Rides – It’s A Rock-You-Mentary
So yesterday I posted The Late Movies: Rock On, Wesley Willis, featuring some of Wesley Willis’s bizarre-but-awesome music. But the real treat comes today, when you can watch an entire documentary about Wesley Willis online — this week only. (Later, you’ll have to buy the DVD.) The new documentary is called Wesley Willis’s Joy Rides, [...]
The Late Movies: Rock On, Wesley Willis
“I make music, I sing my ass off.” With these words, Wesley Willis opens a short documentary shown below. Willis was a bizarre musician — a chronic schizophrenic, his music was crude and thus considered “punk,” but in a way no one had heard before. Willis’s songs generally consisted of spoken-word poetry over a keyboard’s [...]
Mr. Christmas Lights and Sounds
In 2005, the world was charmed by a video called the Christmas Lights Gone Wild, in which Carson Williams loaded his house with Christmas lights and programmed them to flash in sync with music, specifically “Wizards in Winter” by Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Williams spent two months and over $10,000 to create the spectacle. It wasn’t the [...]
Which Music Will My Cats Like?
What kind of music do cats like? This charming science fair display follows the scientific method of hypothesis, experimentation, resulting data, and conclusion. The student theorized that the cats would fall asleep to classical music. In this case, the conclusion is what I would call a punch line: “My hypothesis was wrong, because they did [...]
