This speed project from Design I/O uses Google’s Project Soli – Alpha Dev Kit combined with the excellent machine learning tool Wekinator and openFrameworks to detect small movements that look like someone playing a tiny violin and translate that to the volume and playback of a violin solo.
Here’s a little ditty on the hidden onomastic pitfalls of the United Kingdom
This cool song from Reginald Pikedevant’s YouTube channel will walk you through some of the strange sound-spelling pairings that will confuse us outside the UK, but easy to say if you live there.
Guy Moves In With Girlfriend, And Hilariously Tweets The Experience
Twitter user Arthur Dayne recently moved in with his girlfriend.In a monstrous series of tweets, I think he’s figured out the secret to life’s success, and it’s women.
Spotify has over 100 million active users
Spotify is the first music-streaming service to reach 100 million monthly active users, the company confirmed to The Telegraph today. The announcement comes three months after the service reached 30 million paid subscribers and raised $1 billion in debt financing for its fight against Apple Music.
Tumblr to launch live video on Tuesday
Twitter has Periscope. Amazon has Twitch. Google has YouTube’s live streaming. And Facebook has Facebook Live. Now, Tumblr is getting into live video, too. The company is preparing to launch a new live video feature on its service, beginning tomorrow, which will introduce a series of live broadcasts as well as a user-facing feature that could compete with Facebook Live, among other things.
British people increasingly turning to subscription services, research finds
Carried out by YouGov for e-commerce firm Zuora, the research reckons that 13.9 million people in the UK are now signed up to video-on-demand services. In music, it estimates that 5.9 million are signed up to Spotify in one way or another (which sounds a little low), and 2.9 million are currently hooked into Apple Music (which sounds a little high).
You Can Watch “Mean Girls” In Toronto With Lindsay Lohan
On June 22 in Toronto, you can, in fact, sit with us.
Written by the incomparable Tina Fey, Mean Girlsis a funny, clever satire of high school cliques, starring Lindsay Lohan and Ontario’s own Rachel McAdams.
See La Lohan in her career defining tour de force performance, as we so desperately want to remember her. (Those freckles!) Unleash your inner Regina, Gretchen or Karen and bring your fellow Plastics for a très cute movie date under the stars on the pier.
Join TIFF for an online movie party on an interactive platform, featuring some special guests! Connect at synaptop.com via video and text with stars and fellow fans, from wherever you are.
The screening will be live-commentated by Mean Girls’ star and gay icon Daniel Franzese (of Mean Girls and HBO’s Looking).
Simple Plan Add Fall Canadian Headline Dates To Extensive 2016 Tour Schedule
Multiplatinum-band Simple Plan have announced a 6-date Canadian tour that will see them play arenas this November in London, ON; Toronto; Ottawa; Quebec City; Halifax; and Montreal.
Fan club members will have access to tickets starting tomorrow. Tickets go on sale to the public on Thursday in Quebec City and Montreal, and Friday for the other four dates. Opening each date will be pop-punkers All Time Low and American band PVRIS.
“We are extremely excited to once again have the privilege to headline a huge arena tour back at home in Canada,” says the band. “All the love and support we get from our Canadian fans is very special to us and we absolutely love playing shows for them. We’re also really stoked to bring along All-Time Low and PVRIS with us, two amazing bands that we love and that we know our fans will be thrilled about. These shows are gonna be a blast and we already can’t wait for November!”
The tour is in support of the band’s fifth studio album Taking One For The Team. Simple Plan will also be touring all over Canada this summer with select festival dates (full list below), as well as joining Blink-182 and The Used at the MTS Centre in Winnipeg on July 7.
Last week, Alternative Press named Simple Plan one of the 10 most influential bands in pop punk. “While the album titles have gotten a tad more mature, their music still sounds made for every summer vacation,” writes the magazine. “Simple Plan aren’t afraid to take risks and still keep coming out with awesome pop-influence albums.”
The band recently released a video for their latest single, “Singing In The Rain,” that takes the band back to 1964. The video is streaming on the band’s YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/bSO6ikrxSqk.
“The video for “Singing In The Rain” is a love letter to one of our favourite movies of all time, ‘That Thing You Do.’ It’s about the exhilarating power that 3 chords, a drum beat and a catchy melody can have on the lives of the people who create it. The video takes you on the magical journey from rehearsing in a garage to playing stadiums and topping the charts. and the roller-coaster ride that is the music industry: both exhilarating and extraordinary, heartbreaking and bittersweet,” says the band.
Taking One For The Team album also features “Boom,” “Opinion Overload,” “Farewell (feat. Jordan Pundik),” “Perfectly Perfect,” and “I Don’t Wanna Go To Bed (feat. Nelly).”
Canadian summer tour dates:
JULY 7 WINNIPEG MTS Centre (With Blink 182)
JULY 17 CALGARY Stampede
JULY 30 EDMONTON K-Days
JULY 31 TUMBER RIDGE, BC Grizfest
AUGUST 6 LEWISPORTE, NL Mussel Bed Soiree
AUGUST 11 SASKATOON Saskatoon Exhibition
AUGUST 13 RAWDON, QC Parc de la Plage
AUGUST 19 ACTON VALE, QC Le Show De La Rentree
AUGUST 20 SMOOTH ROCK FALLS, ON Smooth Truck Fest
AUGUST 25 VANCOUVER PNE
Fall arena tour:
NOVEMBER 17 LONDON, ON Budweiser Gardens
NOVEMBER 18 TORONTO Air Canada Centre
NOVEMBER 19 OTTAWA TD Place Arena
NOVEMBER 21 QUEBEC CITY Videotron Centre
NOVEMBER 22 HALIFAX Scotiabank Metro Centre
NOVEMBER 23 MONTREAL Bell Centre (PVRIS only/Main Support TBA)