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I was a huge fan of OK Go’s first music video I saw using treadmills, and they’ve actually managed to out-do themselves with this massively complex Rube Goldberg experiment that makes up their new music video for This Too Small Pass. Simply mind-blowing. It’s worth checking out the making of the video as well here. UPDATED: I’ve added another video that OK Go did for the same song (This Too Small Pass) that is also really amazing. Thanks Tulika for providing the link. Ok ok… I know the song came out August 2008, but thats past Summer 2008, so in my books, this song qualifies. Regardless, it’s a highly underplayed song that I didn’t hear then or now, but I love the beat, the lyrics, and overall sound is just real fun and summer-y. UPDATE: Can’t believe I forgot to tell you what the song is! It’s called “Say Hey (I Love You) ft. Cherine Anderson” by Michael Franti and Spearhead. First off, I thought I had already posted an article about Spotify when I heard about them a month ago from @kevinrose, but I guess I hadn’t. So here is Spotify, and their short video/commercial to explain what they are. Similar to the likes of Grooveshark, Last.fm, and Pandora, Spotify starts with the idea of discovering new and old music that you like. From there it goes very much to the next level. You can set up playlists of songs you like on it’s desktop application, and stream the music to your computer. You can then make playlists collaborative, and share it with friends, so multiple people can add/remove songs from the playlist (after all, one person can only discover so much new music). While already available in Europe, Spotify is currently not available in the US just yet, but is on-track to hopefully launch soon (especially after they just announced the addition of 2 million indie songs). What’s even more exciting is Spotify’s mobile app. A demo for their iPhone app has hit the internet, and it is amazing. Not only does it update instantly with the collobarative playlists, but it has the amazing ability to go “Offline” in which marked playlists would be available to you to listen to whenever you want, even without an available internet connection! Check out the video below. Now we just need Apple to approve the application, and Spotify to launch in the States. (Found on TechCrunch)
The Eternal Moonwalk, as the name implies, is a mash up of people trying to imitate the moonwalk (most are just walking backwards) all strung together, creating one long moonwalk, that goes on, well… for a very long time (longer than I could keep watching the site for). A cool bonus is the ability to play Michael Jackson sound effects (i.e. his yells) while the video plays. Great time-waster. (Found on Digg) A very cool mesh of traditional korean instruments with break dancing, turntable-style remixing and beatboxing. You can’t touch Darth Vadar.
Wow. I could simply spend hours going through this virtual tour of Michael Jackson’s Private Aracde. When I saw this post on TechCrunch, I was hard-pressed to believe that this music video would be as mind-blowing as they claimed it would be. Having watched it though, my mind was seriously blown…multiple times. Done by Japanese group, Sour, the entire video is a compilation of different clips made by fans of the band. Watch it, and send it to your friends. Serious props to whoever put it all together. (Found on TechCrunch)
He’s always been able to amaze people with some of the near impossible dance steps he had, and the overall fluidity he displayed in his movements to the point where you questioned whether it was even humanly possible. And you would try it at home, and more often than not, (at least I) you end up on the floor. The moonwalk has been one of MJ’s signature steps, and while it still amazes me at how easily he does it, most people know the basic idea of how the moonwalk is done. But at least until now, I had no idea of how Michael Jackson did the near 45 degree lean in Smooth Criminal. Wires? Trick photography? It just didn’t make sense to me. But now I know. |
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