Posted in Music, People, Video on Mar 15th, 2010 3 Comments »
LOOSEWORLD x Waverly Films: Reggie Watts in F_CK SH_T STACK from LOOSEWORLD on Vimeo.
Holy shit, Reggie Watts is a genius, no two ways about it. Wow. Blow this up full screen with HD on for the full “stack.”
[via Boing Boing]
Posted in Ideas, Music on Feb 21st, 2010 2 Comments »
Playing musical instruments may improve reading
Learning to play a musical instrument could help to improve children’s reading and their ability to listen in noisy classrooms, according to new research.
“Our eyes and ears take in millions of bits of information every second and it is not possible for the brain to process all of that, so [...]
Posted in Audio, Ideas, Music, NPR, People, Politics on Jan 15th, 2010 No Comments »
Salman Ahmad on Onpoint
Salman Ahmad is a bonafide rock star in Pakistan, across South Asia and in émigré communities around the world.
As a Pakistani Muslim boy, he caught Led Zeppelin fever in America, came home with a dream of fusion rock-and-roll and world peace — and now argues with mullahs over whether Islam even permits [...]
Posted in Events, Music, People on Nov 20th, 2009 2 Comments »
Washington, Connecticut. If you’re going to go to a kirtan Krishna Das is the person you want leading it. He’s the real deal and if you get into it it will get into you.
Posted in Music, People, Places on Nov 1st, 2009 7 Comments »
Milton, Connecticut. Our good friend and neighbor Bill Lauf did his fall concert at Milton town hall last night and it was his best ever. Even if he were a full time musician, on the road doing concerts all the time he’d be incredible but he has a real day job and writes music and [...]
Posted in Music, People, Video on Oct 16th, 2009 No Comments »
American Masters: Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound.
American Masters examines the life and career of recording artist and activist Joan Baez.
This is an excellent piece, well produced with lots of great archival footage of this extraordinary person who really walked the walk.
The full episode will be online from October 15th through December 10th. Highly recommended.
Posted in Events, Music, People on Sep 16th, 2009 1 Comment »
Warren, Connecticut. Mary Travers of Peter Paul and Mary has died.
Here Will McCabe, Gordon Titcomb, and Bill Lauf sing for her at an Obama fundraiser we put on here in Warren the summer before last at the home of Adil and Zarinna Mulla who were good friends of Mary’s. She made a great speech at [...]
Posted in Ideas, Music, People, Video on Aug 1st, 2009 5 Comments »
World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale from World Science Festival on Vimeo.
McFerrin continues to demonstrate his genius. I love this guy.
Listen to what he says at the end: any audience, anywhere on earth can do this. Talk about a nature/nurture question.
[via Boing Boing]
Posted in Ideas, Music on Jul 31st, 2009 3 Comments »
Ukulele Beatles Fun!
This is an incredible collection of instructional pieces for learning to play the ukulele using Beatles songs. Very well done, I think I might get me a ukulele just to use this site.
[via Coudal Partners Blended Feed]
Posted in Music, People on Jun 27th, 2009 No Comments »
Jackson Estate Has Piles of Assets but Loads of Debt
This is a fascinating piece and as more comes out about the complex mess that was Michael Jackson’s life this piece of it will become messier. However, as this piece states, Michael Jackson was a shrewd businessman even as his personal life was out of control.
Posted in Ideas, Music, People on Mar 10th, 2009 No Comments »
Fresh Air: Rudresh Mahanthappa: South Asian Jazz.
Killer. Listen to the show online or get the podcast. Wow. Different counting patterns coupled with jazz = incredible. World jazz.
Great music, great discussion, a wonderful show.
Posted in Animation, Creativity, Music, Video on Jan 14th, 2009 No Comments »
Bubblicious from Rex The Dog on Vimeo.
This is great. Stop animation deconstructed as part of the stop animation. Very nicely done.
[via Coudal Partners Blended Feed]
Posted in Animation, Art and Design, Creativity, Movies, Music, Video on Jan 11th, 2009 No Comments »
Last Time in Clerkenwell is a fantastic piece of animation by Alex Budovsky with music by The Real Tuesday Weld. Check out Alex’s other pieces on YouTube and at the Alex Budovsky web site.
[via Ken O'Connell]
Posted in Creativity, Ideas, Music, Places, Video on Dec 31st, 2008 No Comments »
Bill Moyers interviewed Mark Johnson, this film’s director a while back. It was a great show: Playing for Change . Watch the video on the Moyers site, it overlaps the one embedded here but it’s worth it; goes into more detail about the movie.
And on that note, Anne and I wish you all a very [...]
Posted in Music, Tech Stuff, Tools on Dec 3rd, 2008 9 Comments »
Reclaim Media takes your old LPs and cassettes and turns them into CDs and/or MP3s. And, they do it cheaply and safely. $14.95 to turn a cassette into both an audio CD and an MP3 file (they split tracks).
Wow, what a great and useful service.
Posted in Ideas, Music, Photographers, Video on Nov 12th, 2008 7 Comments »
London (harder, better, faster, stronger) from David Hubert on Vimeo.
I really wanted to make a video of London while I was there earlier this year but I didn’t had any camcorder, so I took pictures instead. In fact I took more then 3000 pictures and put them all together in less then 2 minutes.
I [...]
Posted in Macintosh, Music, Video on Sep 30th, 2008 6 Comments »
Brilliant.
[via Bill Lynn]
Posted in Art and Design, Music, Video on Aug 3rd, 2008 No Comments »
Bruno Bowden & Rufus Cappadocia: Origami, blindfolded and to music.
I dedicate this post to my good friend David Darling.
Posted in Macintosh, Movies, Music, Tech Stuff, Travel, iPhone on Jun 16th, 2008 1 Comment »
United Airlines Offering iPod/iPhone Connectivity on International Flights
Plug in, watch your content on their screen. Interesting and no doubt great. Only on business and first class. The rest of us will have to watch movies on small screens or hope our MacBook Pro batteries will go the distance.
I don’t care about the screen. Power to [...]
Posted in Ideas, Music, Photography, Social Software on Jun 7th, 2008 No Comments »
Moodstream
Wow, a big monitor or Apple TV or a projector and you’re set. This is pretty cool. The images are great, so far I’ve not found music I like (but maybe I’m too old for this stuff).
[via Derek Powazek]
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