Pink Saturday was amazing.. there were at least a trillion people there!
Peliom took this picture of TikiTV VJ’ing on the main stage at Castro and Market:
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Tagged: pink saturday , pride , tikitv
I went to bed at 2am last night. The alarm went off at 6am this morning . It was waaaay too early to do much other than check the internets, so that’s what I did, and found inbflat.net. This site is magic.
Eventually I realized I had to stop playing with it and do some work, but I wanted to keep listening. So I made the Bb Buddha Machine.
It probably doesn’t work in IE. It brings linux machines to their knees. But I listened to it for at least eight hours today. Enjoy!
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Here are some old pics of Sam and Peliom vj-ing with the open source TikiTV software at the Timothy Leary Archives event at 111 Minna. Way fun!
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Tagged: cocoa , opensource , tikitv
Daft Punk vs. Adam Freeland – “Aer OBAMA”
The following is a mixed-media stop motion music video and celebration commemorating the election and inauguration of Barack Obama as the forty-fourth president of these United States. Audibly showcasing Adam Freeland’s remix of Daft Punk’s “Aerodynamic” and the imaginative stylings of forward thinking toy artists Dalek, Bill McMullen and Kubrick to name just a few. Independently animated and directed by the progressive minds of the directing team GOLD, the piece is a labor of love that invites everyone to join in or create their own celebration this coming Tuesday January the 20th.
dunno how I missed this until now! via Laughing Squid.
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Since 2001, we’ve spent Halloween morning with a few hundred of our freaky friends. This year we had a spectacular new location and plenty of donuts and bacon. Thanks for another crazy year, Brass Tax crew!
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Tagged: BrassTax , halloween
Sign of the times: following the Bay Area D&B float with a stroller and chillin in the civic center playground while craziness swirled all around us.
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Wally and I went to check out AES after Loveparade and saw this rotary subwoofer. It looks like a fan and has a frequency response that goes down to 0hz!
Here is a intelligent little interview with Mark Hosler of Negativland talking about the creation of the CC Sampling License. I forgot this license existed; it is not linked anywhere on the CC site as far as I can tell, and is not offered by the chooser tool. Mark also talks about his general disagreement with CC.
“Let’s be Positivland for a moment here…”
Also, this music video remake of Negativland’s Time Zones was linked from MeFi today. It’s amazing how well old Negativland stands the test of time.
Miguel Soares, who made this video, has done lots of other great video and blinky-light pieces.
Here is a simple and awesome piece called Do Robots Dream of Electric Art?
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Tagged: CreativeCommons , MiguelSoares , negativland
Last month, RadioLab interviewed Zoë Keating about the music she makes by live-looping cello. We didn’t listen to it until last night.. It’s beautiful and haunting. Check out Zoe’s blog for more.
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Tagged: ambient , cello , podcasts , RadioLab , ZoëKeating
I would so LOVE to go on a ride w/ these guys!! Check out da bikes! – I love that each of them has a playlist.
(via Josh Spear who apparently gave away a free glow in the dark foldable bike to the person who sent in a link to the blingiest bike on the web. I wish I’d known about this sooner!!! nonetheless you can still see a fab collection of links to blingy bikes on his site.)
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Ulrich Schnauss at the Fox Theatre in Boulder, Colorado on July 8, 2008, with A Shoreline Dream, Cacheflowe, and Ian Cooke. A remarkable show, one of the best. Music was great, crowd was appreciative, and the musicians had much love for each other. Multiple encores.
Audio sample one; audio sample two.
If anyone happened to record this show, please post a comment below, I’d love to get a copy. Same lineup is playing July 9 evening in Denver at the Falcon.
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We went to see modeselektor last night at Mighty! It was super-packed.. a huge crowd for a Wednesday:
The Camo Bus was rockin outside… I love the fact that no one complains that there is an absolutely thunderous soundsystem set up on the street :)
Here is a short video of modeselektor being introduced. The Mighty soundsystem absolutely crushes the little microphone in my camera, so this video is kind of pointless but still fun. What you can’t hear in the video is an insane amount of soul-destroying bass:
(click play to start video)
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Wow, I really wanna see this! It’s going to be at the Lumiere on 3/28. More videos over here and more beats over here:
Who wants to go?
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A couple days ago I heard this song on the radio and it seemed familiar for some reason. I’d never heard it before, but it reminded me of the music my mom used to blast on our tiny tape player in the kitchen when I was growing up (which I think I used to hate but now find strangely comforting…kind of like fish sauce on mangoes).
The song is called Shave Your Beard by Dengue Fever and it’s a cover of a classic Cambodian pop song. I don’t think my mom ever listened to Cambodian pop when I was growing up, but she listened to a lot of Cantonese pop…I guess there must be some similarities.
Anyways the song also made me hungry!
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Remember that Soulja Boy video that May posted? Well, here is Richard Stallman (yes, RICHARD STALLMAN) doing the Soulja Boy dance. His entourage is wearing labcoats, and he is holding a laptop. In a more perfect universe, it would be required that all music videos feature RMS.
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Tagged: RMS , SouljaBoy , wtf???
After we went to The Missing Peace opening party, we went to see Daft Punk’s Electroma at the Clay Theater. Nate, Mario, Shag, Richard, Sonya met us there, but somehow we missed Aryana.
The DJ set before the movie was awesome. All movies need DJs, robots, and lasers.
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Tagged: DaftPunk , Electroma , film
Shag and I are testing a netradio station, streaming CC ShareAlike-licensed tracks from archive.org. Give these a listen and let us know what you think!
Ambient Drone Electronic Folk Indie IDM Pop
Ambient:
Drone:
Electronic:
Folk:
Indie:
IDM:
Pop:
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Tagged: CreativeCommons , NetLabel , netradio , ShareAlike , streaming
Here are roughly 2000 albums, all licensed under a Creative Commons ShareAlike license. Tons of awesome stuff for you to listen to, all tagged by genre, artist, and label!
The code used to make the list of albums can be found at the NetLabelShareAlike wiki page.
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So…I’m slightly embarrassed to admit that I’ve spent untold hours watching all manner of people and cartoon characters doing the Soulja Boy dance on YouTube…but not so embarrassed that I’m not gonna post them all here. This one’s my favorite!
For those who aren’t required to immerse themselves in Top 40 music for work, Soulja Boy’s song has been #1 on Billboard for the last 3 months and counting. Yes, I’m embarrassed that I know this stuff…but whatever, I remember hearing it before he got signed and thinking, OMG this song sucks donkey balls. Obviously, I’m an idiot. Of course, everyone now knows that it was his brilliant instructional dance video that separated his from all other donkey balls songs out there…because it spawned such fabulous renditions like the Soulja Boy…
you get the idea…
Anyways, this is just my roundabout way of saying that The San Francisco Hip Hop Dancefest is happening next month, and I think we should go!
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i love this video for Szamár Madár by Venetian Snares.
Higher-quality versions of fan-made vsnares videos here
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Tagged: BreakCore , VenetianSnares
We went to LoveParade last weekend and had a blast! The Unimog should be at City Hall every weekend!
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Tagged: loveparade , spacecowboys , unimog
Erin points out that the Chillits 2007 sets are now online! Yay! Happy Ears!
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No joke, there is such a thing! It’s what Cowboy Troy calls his music. He’s got a fan club called the Hick-Hop Federation and his single below is called the Hick Chick Dance Mix. I think I mentioned this to peliom and barbara when we were driving out to Mono Lake and they didn’t believe me so here it is :-)
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