Still going hard; love this band so much!
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Tags: I ♥ MUSIC, Medication, Sevendust "Follow" (feat. Aaron Lewis of Staind), Sevendust — "Medicated" [music video]
Sevendust — “Medicated” [music video]
•June 19, 2018 • Leave a CommentStill going hard; love this band so much!
Two Wild Lynx in Ontario Having an Intense Dialogue
•June 1, 2018 • Leave a CommentNicole Lewis and her partner Ed Trist captured this rare encounter between two Canadian Lynx screaming at each other — their funny vocal standoff coming close to blows:
Aww, fluffy. I don’t know why but, that reminds me of my sister so much. This one too:
“Black Hole Sun” Cover Performed on Cello by Break of Reality [♬]
•May 18, 2018 • Leave a CommentAn emotive orchestration of Soundgarden’s 1994 hit track performed by Break of Reality, with three cellos providing the melody and harmonies, and a djembe on the rhythm track. While no string instrument can replace Chris Cornell’s vocals, you will still get the feels.
Break of Reality is regarded as one of the world’s premiere alt-classical chamber ensembles, and in 2015, the members of Break of Reality were appointed music ambassadors by the U.S. State Department.
Metro Manners PSA — Anime-Style Magical Girl Video Series Promotes Good Subway Manners in… Los Angeles
•May 17, 2018 • Leave a CommentMusical public service announcements are quite rare, maybe due to their tricky nature to convey an important message in a fun package, in this case, transportation etiquette. The bilingual Japanese/English videos star a woman dressed as an anime-style magical girl, which is sort of strange considering it is for the Los Angeles Metro.
Aisle Blocking ブロキング
Eating イーティング
Seat Hogging ホギング
Super Kind’s opening attack is always to launch into a song, in English, imploring Rude Dude, or Meiwaku Boy (meiwaku being the Japanese word for “nuisance” or “annoyance”), to be more considerate. But the musical interlude never manages to correct Rude Dude’s behavior, prompting Super Kind to Resort to more extreme, often super-powered methods.
Japan has public transportation down, and everyone seems to understand the importance of acceptable behavior while in transit. If the video below is anything to go by, I see no problem in emulating their standards and paying homage in a fun way.
It was some time ago but I think New Zealand’s musical PSA attempt was rather successful:
…Oh, that’s why musical PSAs are rare, they are *campy af (*noun: camp
1. deliberately exaggerated and theatrical behaviour or style.)
Little Witch Academia: Chamber of Time – Launch Trailer
•May 16, 2018 • Leave a CommentJoin Akko and her friends as they explore dungeons and uncover the mysteries at Luna Nova Academy in this action RPG, available now.
Ariana Grande, Jimmy & The Roots Sing “No Tears Left to Cry” w/ Nintendo Labo Instruments [♬]
•May 16, 2018 • Leave a CommentNintendo released an accessory pack for their new Switch game system — Nintendo Labo — which is a bunch of build-it-yourself cardboard controllers. Pretty niche, but also pretty neat. Until this video, I haven’t seen anyone actually do anything out of the ordinary with Labo (even if it’s a glorified commercial, it’s still impressive). As it turns out, Jimmy Fallon is a huge Nintendo Mario Kart fan, and with the Roots Crew playing on his show, they really made a funky pop hit with these Labo instruments :
Ariana Grande – Vocals Jimmy Fallon – Guitar, Piano Studio Questlove – Robot Kit Black Thought – Electric Guitar Fishing Rod Kamal Gray – Toy-Con Piano x2 (Organ) James Poyser – Toy-Con Piano x2 Captain Kirk – Acoustic Guitar Mark Kelley – Bass Guitar Stro – Toy-Con Garage Drum Machine.
Noice! Though I feel the reality of Labo, for me at least, would be closer to this:
Ryan Reynolds Makes Lowkey Appearance on South Korean TV Singing Contest “King of Masked Singer” [♬]
•May 15, 2018 • Leave a CommentIf Ryan Reynolds aint just the hardest working self-promoter in Hollywood right now, well, I just don’t know self-promotion. Deadpool 2 opens this week and everyone knows about it, especially here in New Zealand because the second installment of the merc with a mouth stars 15 year old Kiwi actor, Julian Dennison. Here is Ryan doing karaoke wearing a unicorn mask:
I appreciate him working for our affection with all this interesting marketing, but he should give playing hard to get a try, right? I’m not super hyped, but I mean, I am going…
Tall Shorts Film Festival (NZ)
•May 8, 2018 • Leave a CommentThe Festival’s call for entries asks that submissions be no longer than two minutes, that they are shot in portrait format and that they incorporate the theme of light.
Award-winning director Taika Waititi will judge entries, with the entire showing and judging conducted through the Facebook Live platform. Waititi will be looking for films that embrace the format for storytelling and composition.
Not only will the winner have their work seen by the film icon and promoted by Spark, they will also take home a prize of $10,000.
Says Andy Blood, creative strategist at Facebook: “Orson Wells said something like, ‘The enemy of art is the absence of limitation’, so it’s nice to see a film festival with a new limitation: that entries must be shot in portrait format (9:16).
Entries are open from April 1 to May 13. To enter, contestants must post their films to the Festival’s Facebook page Facebook.com/SparkTallShorts, where it will be checked against the competition rules before appearing on the wall. Live judging will take place on the evening of May 20.
So I went to the Fb page, looked at the Visitor Posts submissions (so few), and found that this person was the competition:
This is such a cool initiative, but why the heck is there no/so little marketing for this? Like, zero! I found it by accident for goodness sake scrolling Reddit.
Le Nuage — Frustrations of Creative Expression [stop-motion animation]
•May 4, 2018 • Leave a Comment
Le Nuage is a neat short film by Russian film student Iulia Voitova which succinctly displays the many frustrations of creative output. Voitova created the work with the theme “bad weather” for La Poudrière animation film school:
Directing and animation : Iulia Voitova / Music : Lawrence Williams
Like Iulia Voitova’s style? Be sure to check out her art page http://ulavoytova.tumblr.com/
Anthias Asperilinguis
•May 2, 2018 • Leave a CommentLook at this exquisite reef fish — the hallmark pink coloration Jeweled Gemfish. That is all 😀
Most species are found at deep reefs in the tropical and subtropical Atlantic, often well below depths reachable to a scuba diver.
ALASKALASKA – “Meateater” [♬]
•April 27, 2018 • Leave a Comment‘Meateater’ is described by vocalist Lucinda John-Duarte as “about how frustrating it is to be categorised or stereotyped. We’re always in competition with each other or ourselves, trying to sell ourselves like meat and hiding parts of our being in the process.”
ALASKALASKA is a six-piece based in London, with roots from Scotland and Portugal and history working in jazz. This diverse array of influences came to bear on their debut EP last year, and seems only to be growing into a more potent force on their new single ‘Meateater’. Follow ALASKALASKA on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
The Invisible Light That Plants Emit
•April 23, 2018 • Leave a CommentCalifornian photographer Craig Burrows has photographed hundreds of glowing flowers since 2014 after seeing Oleksandr Holovachov’s work with ultraviolet-induced visible fluorescence (UVIVF) photography. Here are his impressive findings (CLICK TO ENLARGE!):
“Each time I do a set of UVIVF photos, it starts with going out under the cover of darkness to snatch unsuspecting flowers growing around the neighborhood. I rarely know what to expect from a flower before I get it back to shoot. Some I think will dazzle end up flopping, and others I am surprised by their colors or light. Every one is a surprise!
In the same way a tee-shirt blue glows under a black light, most organic material glows at least a little with UV stimulation and in all kinds of colors. To make the most of it, I make sure I’m working in the darkest environment I can and use a 365nm light so the camera can’t see the UV light.
Any time the flowers are hit by sunlight, they’re letting off their own glow in response and it’s simply overwhelmed by the sunlight we can see. These photos capture something we always see, but never can observe.” – Burrows
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