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Archive for December, 2007
2008 STATE … of the UNION
December 31st, 2007 2008, art, newyears, sisto, todomundo, video | No Comments »Starting the fire: YouTube audio takedowns
December 21st, 2007 audio, dmca, freeculture, notice, takedown, todomundo, video, youtube | 2 Comments »Oh, dear. Check out the notice on this Billy Joel fanvid:
merrickart (1 month ago)
Best video of this song I’ve seen! Even better than Billy Joel’s himself.
Perhaps even more troubling is that the poster wasn’t notified of the takedown:
PlaidFox (16 hours ago)
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To YouTube:
I do not appreciate the way I found out that my audio has […]
Video Jam: Kid Sister, Snoop Dog
December 20th, 2007 diy, hiphop, kidsister, musicvideo, retro, review, snoopdogg, throwback, todomundo, video | 2 Comments »New tracks from pop industry vet Snoop Dogg and nkotb Kid Sister find surprising resonance in their shared 80s electro-funk throwback vibe. But it’s the contrast in the videos that demonstrate the fundamental difference between a hungry artist on her come-up and the pop veteran struggling against the weight of his own history.
Snoop’s “Sensual Seduction” […]
Is virtuosity relevant?
December 19th, 2007 africa, children, guitar, shredding, todomundo, toto, video, virtuosity, youtube | 4 Comments »To seed this discussion, I will provide two related videos and quotes from their respective comments. Please solve this puzzle in the next 24-36 hours.
This is Andy McKee playing an arrangement of one of my favorite songs ever, “Africa” by Toto. 4,124,497 views. 5,722 comments.
PSVDAVID (4 hours ago)
[…]
he is the best man
austrian19421 (1 […]
Java Hut in Worcester is closing
December 18th, 2007 coffee, history, javahut, nostalgia, todomundo, worcester | 1 Comment »Kevin McGrath and I used to get sick hot chocolates at this place.
Hey everyone.
tomorow, (or today, depending on when you read this) is the very last and final open mic to be run at the Java Hut Coffee House on Main Street down near webster sq in worcester. The place is closing down for good […]
Recording folklore: limp and lifeless
December 17th, 2007 commodification, culture, folk, folklore, hiphop, todomundo, tradition | No Comments »“No matter how accurate they may be, the recorded versions of the tales cannot convey the effects that must have brought them to life in the eighteenth century: the dramatic pauses, the sly glances, the use of gestures to set scenes - a Snow White at a spinning wheel, a Cinderella delousing a stepsister - […]
Turning niche practices into cultural norms
December 16th, 2007 america, corruption, culture, freedom, government, independence, lessig, reform, scholarship, todomundo | No Comments »In this excellent lecture, Lessig suggests that the practices of a small group of people with regard to corruption can, over time, challenge and critically change cultural norms. I especially appreciate his thinking about the notion of “independence”. Lessig is focused primarily on government officials yet it reminded me of my revulsion at many […]
Michelle / KINGDOM on WMFU
December 13th, 2007 dj, kingdom, radio, rupture, todomundo, wfmu | No Comments »
SERIOUSLY.
Michelle - “You Don’t Know Michelle” produced by KINGDOM on
Mudd Up! with DJ/Rupture - December 12, 2007.
get famil.
Open your telnet client* and connect to towel.blinkenlights.nl.
Learn more at the Blinkenlights web server.
* If you’re on Windows you must be a masochist and/or gamer, get PuTTY. If you’re on Mac, open a terminal window and type telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl. The best experience is definitely full-screen in a non-graphical terminal interface (GNOME users, press ctrl+alt+f1, […]
Videodrome for real: Chicago’s TV pirate, 1987
December 8th, 2007 airwaves, broadcast, circuitbending, fcc, intervention, maxheadroom, pirate, ramones, todomundo, tv, videodrome | 4 Comments »On the 22nd of November 1987, someone interrupted the broadcast of two different channels in Chicago dressed as Max Headroom.
For a higher quality vid, check the Museum of Classic Chicago Television. Apparently, the bizarre broadcast still resonates with today’s audiences:
There is a little more information on the Wikipedia article but your best bet is to […]
Recent DJ Drama comments on RIAA, mixtapes, future of music
December 8th, 2007 dj, drama, interview, mixtapes, mp3, todomundo | No Comments »215: When the whole situation happened with the RIAA. The one thing I didn’t like as a fan looking in, was how no MCs really didn’t speak out to labels that what was going down was wrong. Did you feel totally alone during this or was there a lot of people who spoke out […]
