Meet Dot, the diminutive star of a short film shot entirely on an Nokia N8 by the Oscar winning Aardman Animations team. The video, now in the record books for the world's smallest stop-motion animation character, was shot with the aid of a CellScope microscope, while the 9mm high heroine was made on a 3-D printer.
(Courtesy of Stuff Magazine)
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Pam Pa l'Americano by the Irish
In case you're not yet sick and tired of "Pam Pa l'Americano", here's a video of Irish talented pair Suzanne Cleary & Peter Harding doing a hand dancing performance of it:
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Not circles, but not squares!
Belfast’s self-proclaimed party band Not Squares has just released its first album. I’ve not seen them live, but by all accounts they're a band for a live audience! Certainly the recorded version kicks hard. Its release has been perfectly timed to coincide with the coldest weather for ages. Now people across the land will be that little bit warmer after leaping around their rooms to the chunky beats and electronic goodness coming from their speakers. Things have got so energetic that I’m sitting at my desk tapping my feet furiously. Crazy.
iTunes link.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
The Fine Arts Showcase
01. Friday on my knees
02. For those who dream with open eyes
03. The teenage order
04. Lovesick
05. Dolophine smile
06. Blue perfume
07. Looking for your love
08. I'm sorry
09. London, my town
10. You knew I was trouble from the start (featuring Theoretical Girl)
Download here
Having grown up outside Seattle after being born in Sweden, Gustaf Kjellvander AKA The Fine Arts Showcase is well familiar with the English language and uses it fluidly. After 10 years in the States his family (including older brother and artist Christian Kjellvander) returned to Sweden, where Gustaf as a mean of coping with boredom and alienation started writing music. One of his first gigs were at his school when he was 12 years old. And so the story goes.
The Fine Arts Showcase sound is made up of a lot of different fragments. Loaning the pop sensibilities of bands like The Byrds, Television Personalities, The Jesus and Mary Chain and artist Gene Pitney with the song writing and autobiographical elements of Merle Haggard, Leonard Cohen and John Lennon and the overall poetics of bands like Neutral Milk Hotel and The Silver Jews.
Monday, January 10, 2011
A More Perfect Union
Titus Andronicus is a tragedy by William Shakespeare that may be his earliest tragedy and is thought to have been written in the early 1590s...but not what my post is about. Titus Andronicus is the name of New Jersey indie rock band,consisting of Patrick Stickles (vocals, guitar), Amy Klein (guitar, violin), David Robbins (keyboards, guitar) and Eric Harm (drums)....currently on the look out for a bass player as Ian Graetzer announced at their NYE show that he was leaving....
Sunday, January 9, 2011
This is slightly cool, and different:
ASL Song Interpretation of the Day: An ASL dub of Cee Lo Green’s “Fuck You.”
Patrick Wolf
Patrick Wolf is an English singer-songwriter from London. Wolf mixes electronics and samples with a wide range of instruments including viola, keyboards, ukulele, and percussion, all of which he plays himself to form a fusion of jazz, folk and electronic music.
He began experimenting with sound and four-track recording at the age of 11, eventually building an arsenal of instruments that included junk-shop organs and a home-built theremin.
Decadent, pretentious and a self-confessed outsider, Patrick Wolf is the perfect pop star. Over four acclaimed albums he's embraced everything from folk and baroque pop to Berlin-influenced techno. Well, he's back with Time of My Life (not, unfortunately, a cover of the Dirty Dancing staple), the first single from his forthcoming album The Conqueror, due in May. The original is a sumptuous, string-drenched paean to strength in the face of heartbreak ("happy without you" is a recurring lyric), while this remix adds throbbing synths, crisp beats and spacious piano breaks. Around 3.30 mins, strings appear before the track builds towards an appropriately OTT climax. (c) The Guardian
Free download on his website here.
He also plays The Sugar Club, Dublin on March 21st.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
