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Polyphonic Overtone Singing by Anna-Maria Hefele
•October 6, 2014 • Leave a CommentAnne-Maria Hefele can sing a duet with herself, basically, which by common standards of singing, isn’t basic at all. What singer Anna-Maria is performing is a unique style of overtone singing. For instance, at 3:25, she moves the fundamental and overtone in opposite directions, which will have you raising an eyebrow and tilting your head ever so slightly in disbelief:
Wow. She has quite a gift. Anna-Maria sure looks human, but she sounds more otherworldly than the Diva Plavalaguna herself, wouldn’t you agree?
Haley Bonar “Last War” [music video]
•October 6, 2014 • Leave a CommentHaley Bonar was discovered during an open mic event by one of her musical heroes, Alan Sparhawk of Low. The next day she quit school, crammed her Honda Civic full of gear with her drummer, and was opening for Low across the country she had barely seen. Haley was twenty years old. Since then, she has released four full length albums, several EPs, started a punk/new-wave side project (Gramma’s Boyfriend), had songs tapped for major motion pictures and has had the pleasure to tour from coast-to-coast playing some of the most amazing venues with some of the most talented artists in the world.
Creative Photo Collages Pair Athletes in Action with Classical Art Sculptures by Jens Ullrich
•October 6, 2014 • Leave a Comment
These are amazing and I love them much. Such an accurate and fitting juxtaposition, marrying sport athletes with the defined physique of classical, fine art marble statues:
Money Well Spent — “Dolls That Fly in the Palm of Your Hand”
•October 6, 2014 • Leave a CommentCheck out this awesome toy:
Here’s another funny take-off:
Haha. Could be worse, for instance, these great toys for a young boy:
The Good, The Bad, and The Glee Club! [F]
•October 5, 2014 • Leave a CommentGlee. No, I am not a fan. My friend is however, and she being apart of the University Glee Club, invited me along to her end of year Glee performance. I do not get Glee. But she is my friend, so of course I went along. No hesitation. I found myself entertained by the little unscripted mistakes taking place on stage, such as a dude’s guitar pick flying away from him, a boy’s glasses falling off during his “Eye of the Tiger” a cappella fight/sparring scene, and general missteps and funny dance moves all tickled my funny bone. There was one moment in particular when seven performers broke away to hold up a sign in the background, one letter each of the word “FREEDOM“, but the young lady at the end held her sign the wrong way. I couldn’t let that go:
I wasn’t the only one who found such moments funny. But I was probably the only one who went along with absolutely zero expectations of enjoying my time. Seeing my friend smile and sing and dance like she knew she was the best was enough for me that night. After several numbers I realised, they were all in it together, which was admirable and something that couldn’t be laughed at or made fun of. I was among geeks, nerds, and genuinely nice people who weren’t ashamed to put themselves in front of an audience, which was oddly comforting.
During intermission, the women next to me asked if I could move down two seats because her friends had arrived. I obliged, I mean I was sitting among the last three empty seats next to each other in the theatre. In my new unwarmed seat, I looked to my right and found myself sitting next to my friend’s father. We talked. Tried to avoid any awkward conversations about me and his daughter. Nailed it. Her and I are friends and I’m sure he gets it. Unless she told him stuff about me? … The curtains drew and we didn’t acknowledge each other until it was over — My type of cinema/theatre going experience.
After the show ended I offered her and her father a lift home, then I filled up on petrol, resisted the urge of a 24hour drive thru and came back to my always missed bed [and internet]. It was a…good, evening. I have an amazing tolerance for mostly everything, but this doesn’t mean I have a soft spot for Glee now. Ridiculous, contrived happy nonsense. …Hehe, FREEDO 😂
Flying Lotus ft. Kendrick Lamar “Never Catch Me” [music video] & ‘Psychedelic Death Trip’ [animation]
•October 4, 2014 • Leave a CommentWhen it comes to music videos, the two standard routes the video often takes is either performance or narrative. It’s always refreshing when a director takes a music video in a direction you don’t expect to see, and treats the song with visual respect. ‘Death is harder on those who are left behind.’ Truth. Damn fine song:
A film by Hiro Murai. The song appears on ‘You’re Dead!’ — learn more at http://flying-lotus.com
Flying Lotus will release his fifth studio album, You’re Dead!, on October 7th via Warp Records. But what better way to consume Flying Lotus’ new album than with a free continuous live loop; together with ‘Psychedelic Death Trip‘, a full-length animated feature film by Xavier Magot — streaming in full for the next 24 hours:
KANYE ZONE [game]
•October 3, 2014 • Leave a CommentVaporize floating heads and make that money, but don’t let Kanye get into his zone:
The ‘Anonymous Gods’ Of Google Street View by Marion Balac
•October 3, 2014 • Leave a CommentScreen captures from Google Street View, where an algorithmically-powered mapping service system automatically blurs every face it recognises — including those of giant statues, accidentally anthropomorphising these towing deities as living beings:
“By applying this bureacratic tool to figures of faith, plunging them into anonymity, we can really see the robot’s point of view.” ~ Balac. “It treats every human face it encounters as data, without exceptions, neglecting religious or scale principles.” From the Luxor Hotel’s Sphinx in Las Vegas to any of the world’s countless Buddhas, a slew of objects have been mistaken by the blurring algorithm and modified to protect privacy.
This phenomenon reveals how robots see the world—humanity included. “The Google robot makes no distinction between a human face and its reproduction, but it still gives us the feeling that it recognizes us,” she says. “When we get blurred, it’s to protect our anonymity. Civil rights or religious beliefs dealt with from a robot’s perspective—I find it fascinating.” While the prospect of algorithmic robots reducing humanity to a series of computations and data points might be unsettling for some, at the end of the day, it’s comforting to recognize that the all-encompassing Internet can give even Buddha the anonymity he deserves.
To make sure this was a real thing, I thought I’d look a statue up myself. It’s legit alright:
Neat huh. The polar opposite of this would probably be when face recognition software fails to recognise [a] people:
GoPro Under a Train Traveling 75 mph (120.7008 kmph)
•October 3, 2014 • Leave a CommentIt’s as imagined…As I’ve imagined…I can’t be the only person who’s imagined this point of view before? Anyway; here’s what it’s like to be under a real train going at 75 mph:
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