Justin Johnson looks a bit like Todd Rundgren, with a mind like him, too. Justin’s homemade guitar may not look like much, but he’s a master with it. Adding a loop pedal increasing his range and depth, this is, full stop, a truly original piece of music.
Want to see the largest astronomical image of all time with 46 billion pixels?
For five years, the astronomers from Bochum have been monitoring our Galaxy in the search of objects with variable brightness. Those objects may, for example, include stars in front of which a planet is passing, or multiple systems where stars orbit each other and which obscure each other every now and then. In his PhD thesis, Moritz Hackstein is compiling a catalogue of such variable objects of medium brightness. For this purpose, the team from the Chair of Astrophysics takes pictures of the southern sky night after night. To this end, they use the telescopes at Bochum’s university observatory in the Atacama Desert in Chile. More than 50,000 new variable objects, which had hitherto not been recorded in databanks, have been discovered by the researchers so far.
The area that the astronomers observe is so large that they have to subdivide it into 268 sections. They photograph each section in intervals of several days. By comparing the images, they are able to identify the variable objects. The team has assembled the individual images of the 268 sections into one comprehensive image. Following a calculation period of several weeks, they created a 194 Gigabyte file, into which images taken with different filters have been entered.
Using the online tool, any interested person can view the complete ribbon of the Milky Way at a glance, or zoom in and inspect specific areas. An input window, which provides the position of the displayed image section, can be used to search for specific objects. If the user types in “Eta Carinae”, for example, the tool moves to the respective star; the search term “M8” leads to the lagoon nebula.
That Time Paul Simon Played Basketball With Ex-Harlem Globetrotter Connie Hawkins on SNL
The second episode of Saturday Night Live in 1974 saw a cool skit with Marv Albert serving as commentator for a one-on-one basketball tournament between Paul Simon and former Harlem Globetrotter Connie Hawkins.
Paul Simon, Connie Hawkins – Me And Julio Down By The Schoolyard – SNL 1975 from Simon and Garfunkel News on Vimeo.
Loverboy’s Working for the Weekend
“Working for the Weekend” was released in 1981 on Loverboy’s second album Get Lucky and reached #29 on the Billboard Hot 100, and #2 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock chart in the United States in January 1982. AND IT’S THE WEEKEND, SO BLAST THIS ONE UP! It even contains the cowbell in the beginning!
https://youtu.be/_3sFmrcW0os
“Weird Al” Yankovic Montage Video For “Tacky” Taken From His 2015 World Tour
“Between May 12 and Oct. 9, 2015, my band and I performed 112 concerts as part of our Mandatory World Tour, and almost every show started out with a performance of my song “Tacky.” As the audience watched on a giant LED screen, a camera crew would follow me as I sang the song, starting from some point outside (or deep within) the venue and eventually winding up on stage. It was always fun for us, because obviously the venues were different every night and every performance of the song was unique. We recorded about half of these performances, and I’ve spent the last few days editing together this little memento.” – “Weird Al” Yankovic
Marty McFly & Doc Brown Visit Jimmy Kimmel Live
Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd reprise their iconic characters from “Back To The Future” for a very special appearance on Jimmy Kimmel’s show.
“UP” in Real Life: 80-Year-Old Grandparents Celebrate Anniversary with Adorable Piano Duet
To commemorate their 60th wedding anniversary, Jason Lyle Black’s grandparents recreated scenes from the opening montage from Pixar’s Up, and performed a piano duet of the film’s theme song.
…and here are the original scenes from Up.
https://youtu.be/1G371JiLJ7A
Both made me cry, by the way.
The inevitable video mashup of Adele and Lionel Richie is here
…and it’s superb. Let’s just end the mashup universe now, because this wins.
Stevie Wonder’s Isolated Vocals, Horns, Bass and Drums From “Superstition”
Jeff Beck was an admirer of Stevie Wonder’s music, and Wonder was informed of this prior to the Talking Book album sessions. Though at this point he was virtually playing all of the instruments on his songs by himself, Wonder still preferred to let other guitarists play on his records, and thus he liked the idea of a collaboration with Beck, a star guitarist. An agreement was quickly made for Beck to become involved in the sessions that became the Talking Book album, in return for Wonder writing him a song. In between sessions, Beck came up with the opening drum beat, which eventually led to Wonder’s creation of “Superstition”. In addition to the opening drum beat, Beck, together with Wonder, created the first demo for the song. Originally, the plan was for Beck to release his version of this song first, with his newly-formed power trio Beck, Bogert & Appice. However, due to a combination of the delayed release of that trio’s debut album and Motown CEO Berry Gordy’s prediction that “Superstition” would be a huge hit (which would subsequently greatly increase the sales of Talking Book), Wonder ended up releasing the song as the lead single off Talking Book ahead of Beck’s version.
VOCAL (Stevie Wonder):
CLAVINET (Stevie Wonder):
HORNS (TENOR SAX: Trevor Laurence, TRUMPET: Steve Madaio):
SYNTH BASS (Stevie Wonder):
DRUMS (Stevie Wonder):
CLAV ECHO TRACK:
Ed Sheeran’s Isolated Vocals For “Thinking Out Loud”
Released on Ed Sheeran’s 2014 album x, “Thinking Out Loud” became a top hit, reaching #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #1 on the UK chart. On an album featuring numerous producers, this track was produced by Peter Gosling, who had worked with Sheeran on his first album.