The Computer Hardware Orchestra are back with their special version of We Are Number One from LazyTown. Bring on the Floppotron!
Local Animal Shelter Is Trending Due To Their Low-Budget Ad…And With Very Good Reason
You don’t need slick production values for your ad – just check out this video for a local animal shelter. Despite the low production quality, it’s trending right now on YouTube, and has a great, emotional and authentic message.
David Bowie Made Some Incredibly Accurate Predictions About The Internet Back In 1999
In this BBC Newsnight interview from 1999 David Bowie talks to Jeremy Paxman about going to meet Tony Blair in stilettos, his alter egos – and makes some incredibly accurate predictions about the potential of the internet. The whole interview is fascinating, but the internet section is at around nine minutes.
A year progress of learning the fiddle video
Ever wanted to pick up and learn how to play an instrument? This video shows what a year working on to play the fiddle will do.
Guy Teaches The Most Insane Guitar Lesson On The Internet
This video is amazing on so many levels. Finger picks, slide and FUCKING INSANITY.
The Inside Scoop On How Pop Singers “Cheat”
Thought autotune is the only thing used to fix singer’s voices? Think again!
Lightsaber Night Has Been Cancelled
That guy Todd had something to do with Lightsaber Night being cancelled at The Hideaway piano bar in St. Louis. Thanks a lot Todd!
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Former CEO Of Ticketmaster Explains Why You Can’t Get The Best Tickets
| “If every ticket in the venue ‘sells out’ at the face value printed on the ticket, that wouldn’t be enough to pay the artist what they are contractually guaranteed by the promoter for the performance. How does the promoter make up the difference? You guessed it: by selling some of the best seats directly in the secondary market, so that artists don’t get flack from you for pricing them high right out of the gate. That means the artist is either directly complicit, or that the artist is taking a massive check for the performance while looking the other way. Goddammit, right?” Nathan Hubbard (who used to be the CEO of Ticketmaster) explains why you can never get good tickets to a major event. |
The Beautiful Relationship Between Physics and Jazz
Stephon Alexander is a theoretical physicist, but he’s also a jazz fanatic whose musical obsession has helped him better understand the world of cosmology, quantum gravity and particle physics.
A History of Internet GIFs and How Businesses Profits From Them
The GIF was invented in 1989. And since its beginning, the GIF has been used to make money. At first, GIFs were sold as placeholders for the web of the ’90s and early 2000s. But after web design became informed by professional standards, gifs lost their role as placeholders. Eventually they became tools of expression, turning snippets of video from popular culture into bite size communication devices. Today, a few big tech companies are trying to capitalize on this new use of GIFs, partnering with brands who want their content to be used as communication.