Key & Peele’s Keegan-Michael Key gives us a glimpse of the group dynamics in an improv troupe.
Bad lip reading: orchestral version will make you laugh with your ears covered
I love the many bad lip reading videos for movies and TV shows, but this is the first bad lip reading of an orchestra. It’s horrible to listen to, but brilliant.
Music using only Windows computer noises
In 1994, Microsoft designers Mark Malamud and Erik Gavriluk approached Eno to compose music for the Windows 95 project.[38] The result was the six-second start-up music-sound of the Windows 95 operating system, “The Microsoft Sound.” YouTuber syou2at has taken all the sounds on your computer under the Windows operating system, and recorded a pretty cool EDM track for your dancing pleasure.
Neil Gaiman On What Stories Are Really About
Listen.
If someone tells you what a story is about, they are probably right.
If they tell you that that is all the story is about, they are very definitely wrong.
Any story is about a host of things. It is about the author; it is about the world the author sees and deals with and lives in; it is about the words chosen and the way those words are deployed; it is about the story itself and what happens in the story; it is about the people in the story; it is polemic; it is opinion.
An author’s opinions of what a story is about are always valid and are always true: the author was there, after all, when the book was written. She came up with each word and knows why she used that word instead of another. But an author is a creature of her time, and even she cannot see everything that her book is about.
Why do we need the things in books? The poems, the essays, the stories? Authors disagree. Authors are human and fallible and foolish. Stories are lies after all, tales of people who never existed and the things that never actually happened to them. Why should we read them? Why should we care?
The teller and the tale are very different. We must not forget that.
Ideas, written ideas, are special. They are the way we transmit our stories and our ideas from one generation to the next. If we lose them, we lose our shared history. We lose much of what makes us human. And fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gift of seeing the world through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.
Neil Gaiman, Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, and What Science Fiction Is and Does
Muhammad Ali (1942-2016)
Boxing legend Muhammad Ali – one of the world’s greatest sporting figures – has died at the age of 74. The former world heavyweight champion died late on Friday at a hospital in the US city of Phoenix, Arizona, having been admitted on Thursday. He had been suffering from a respiratory illness, a condition that was complicated by Parkinson’s disease.
He was, and will always be, The Greatest. Rest in peace, Champ.
https://youtu.be/EYoh62jUFpk
Steve Miller’s Isolated Vocals For “Fly Like An Eagle”
Steve Miller’s Fly Like an Eagle went to number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the week of March 12, 1977, kept from the top spot by “Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)” by Barbra Streisand. The single edit can be found on Greatest Hits (1974–1978). Live and on the radio, it’s usually played in tandem with Space Intro, but the song also segues into Wild Mountain Honey.
https://youtu.be/q67kd0c5Irg
What your phone looks like when you’re famous
Demy de Zeeuw is a Dutch soccer player that runs a soccer-based Instagram account. Look at what happens when he posts a photo.
Canada’s Original Canadian Idol Bobby Curtola Has Passed Away
Bobby Curtola, the original teenage heartthrob and music trailblazer has passed away at home in Edmonton, Alberta on Saturday evening June 4, 2016.
The family has released a statement at this time:
It is with heavy hearts that we confirm the passing of our father, Bobby Curtola. He was an amazing man who did so much for the people in this world, but even more as a father, uncle, godfather and Nono. His entire family requests privacy at this time while they grieve their loss.
To his fans…he loved each and every one of you more than you will know, and never took for granted the life you gave him. He would want you to do something kind for one another today and each day. He would also want you to know he loves you, and that you have another angel watching over you
– Chris and Michael Curtola
The 1906 Recording Of The Edison Phonograph Advertising Itself
I Am The Edison Phonograph (Advertising Record), recorded by Len Spencer in 1906, would have been heard at most Edison phonograph dealers in the early part of the 20th century.
How frustration can make us more creative
Challenges and problems can derail your creative process … or they can make you more creative than ever. In the surprising story behind the best-selling solo piano album of all time, Tim Harford may just convince you of the advantages of having to work with a little mess.