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Jul 3 / 9:06pm

Quick document of similarities between Beyonce's I Was Here + Social Network OST Hand Covers Bruise

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This week Beyonce's 4 came out. (Her new album. I love it, etc.)

One part itched my brain a way I couldn't figure out. Why did the cello + piano in I Was Here feel so familiar?

Total Social Network soundtrack moment. 

 

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Filed under  //  4   Hand Covers Bruise   I Was Here   Reprise   Social Network   Soundtrack   Trent Reznor   art   beyonce   guess who's not crazy   mp3   music   song  
 
Apr 19 / 4:53pm

Skype 5 collage

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Artist David OReilly has collected some Skype 5 draw errors.

/via @muckp

Filed under  //  art   bugs   draw errors   error   interface   mac   skype 5  
 
Feb 16 / 4:46am

You Break the Ice at Parties

I know nothing about this band, this song is a old, and probably not very known even its own time.

I heard it in a set by a great DJ last week... everything sounded super even and punchy. It was a sound I could barely describe. The horns were so crazy... After I dug up what it was, an 80's band with only one release... the track from vinyl (!?), I was at first bummed. It sounded quieter, less intense. But as soon as it got going, I was feeling it again. Tthe girl vocals will kill you. Muy defiant.

It's less than two minutes, and gone just when you start to get it. So hit replay, doy.

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The Tesco Bombers. Break the Ice at Parties.

Filed under  //  art   break the ice at parties   horns   tesco bombers   vinyl  
 
Feb 8 / 11:23pm

Found the Portlandia song!

We all love Portlandia. But this isn't about that.

What's that song in the opening credits? No, not the Portlandia theme Fred and Carrie wrote for the fake mayor.

The blissed out shoegazer one. 

That is Washed Out - Feel it All Around, from 2009.

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Also, I just wanna go on record as saying that even though it is a great song, it doesn't match the show. They were using a more jangly fuzzed out song in the IFC promos that better match Portlandia's sloppy fun.

Filed under  //  art   credits   mp3   music   opening   portlandia   song   theme   tonight show  
 
Feb 2 / 12:26am

Opentape is back-in-tape.

Opentape is an open source clone of Muxtape (a convenient and beloved music service run out of existence coz The Man was being a big drag.)

Muxtape

Opentape appeared soon after Muxtape closed down. But until two days ago there hadn't been any updates for about a year. (There are github forks, so the community kept going. The maintainer kept the forum up + active as well.)

Still it was with great excitement that we saw this tweet come outta nowhere:

Testing HTML5 Audio + Sound Manager 2 support in the new version of Opentape, play with it on Github:https://github.com/opentape/opentape

I haven't seen many people talking about it, so I'm blogging about it here to spread the word. I suspect lotsa folks might have unfollowed the @opentape Twitter account thinking it was a bad place to get updates.

Opentape is very easy to set up. Even easier than WordPress. No database or nothin'.

Also, in honor of the update, I'm sharing an Apes and Androids song. They were a band popular in the Muxtape heyday. Muxtape. We miss you.

Opentape: next time call, or wuphf or something.

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Filed under  //  apes and androids   art   bj novak   mindy kaling   music   muxtape   open source   opentape   the office   wuphf  
 
Jun 7 / 10:45pm

Evolution of performance leads to evolution of original work. YACHT reinterprets sound.

One of my favorite bands, YACHT, has never been limited by lack of members to fill out their sound.

They're often called a "laptop band." But despite their total tech geekery, and omnipresent beat-up laptops at live shows, their recorded albums have always had live drums, guitars, and bass.

YACHT very recently added two live band-members to perform with them on tour. While not technically adding tracks, it seems to have been a catalyst for total reinterpretation of songs, and it sounds great.

Let's use Ring the Bell as an example.

First, here's the album version:

Now, here's the live version, before the new members. Pretty much the same.

And here's the live version with the new members. They added a crazy disco intro, which degrades into the fun tom-heavy tribal sound of the original. And the really bright guitar added a lot of space. Eventually the sound gets distorted, but you can hear enough to get the difference.

I highly recommend checking out this band, btw.

Filed under  //  art   indie   music   pdx   performance   team yacht   yacht  
 
Feb 2 / 1:29am

Some people are less excited about Augmented Reality than others

Augmented (hyper)Reality: Domestic Robocop from Keiichi Matsuda on Vimeo.

I thought the advertising/information overload angle was a lil forced. But the over-dependence on supplemental information idea was subtle + provocative. Plus, duh. Electric visually. Nice.

Filed under  //  advertising   art   augmented reality   commentary   critique   design   film   kitchen   modern life   scene   technology