I can't even make this happen on the wii!

A 10 year old skater

Eco music warriors;kinda

 

Little Green Cars are a Dublin-based band made up of: Dylan Lynch, Donagh Seaver O’Leary, Stevie Appleby, Aoife Kelly, Utsav Lal, Adam O’Regan, Faye O’Rourke. They're signed to UK label Young & Lost Club who boast Noah & The Whale, Johnny Flynn, Young The Giant & Fixers on their books.

They’ve benefited greatly from production from David Kosten (Bat For Lashes, Everything Everything) and their sound draws from folk-rock which seems to draw inspiration, at a guess from artists like Local Natives, Mumford & Sons, Fleetwood Mac and Arcade Fire.

And just like that...

How it's made : Pencils

Did you know...

I want this ring

Amy Winehouse & Tony Bennett

Amy Winehouse’s last music video - “Body and Soul” - a duet with Tony Bennett recorded at Abbey Road studios in London was released today, on what would have been her 28th birthday.

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A lovely new song from Frightened Rabbit.

Webcam 101

True story

Good deed of the day, down under.

Brazilian art director Lucas Jatoba moved to Sydney at age 29 and has loved every minute of his time spent Down Under.

When he turned 30, Jatoba decided to celebrate by returning the favor, so he went around town giving 30 gifts to 30 strangers and filming their reactions.

[booooooom]


30 gifts to 30 strangers in Sydney from Lucas Jatoba on Vimeo.

The Rest

So I got an email,all the way from California, from a band, I've never heard of, but do you know what, they've got a GREAT sound! This is how it went:

"Hello GillyGilly, At the end of last winter, we thought we were a few weeks away from completing our latest album, SEESAW, until a hard drive “glitch” deleted every last piece of it.

After a few months of false starts and false hopes, SEESAW eventually found its way to the same company responsible for airplane black box recovery. Almost five months after the process began, we miraculously had our album back. I actually laughed hysterically for about ten minutes after getting the news, finally realizing how close we were to losing the album which we had spent nearly a year and a half assembling.

SEESAW will (we promise this time!) see the light of day in early 2012, but we've launched a double A-side ALWAYS ON MY MIND | THE LAST DAY (includes artwork of my grandfather in the 1940s) to tide everyone over. We’re also making it available for free at bandcamp until Halloween.
If you want to know any more information about the recording of SEESAW, photos, etc.... " check them out here

What a great idea!

The industrialist Andrew Carnegie used his vast fortune to build 2,509 libraries around the world. The people of Little Free Library would like to continue that philanthropic tradition and make it accessible for people without Carnegie’s wealth. So they sell birdhouse-sized libraries that you can fill with books that people in your neighborhood can read.

Superpunch

Wild Flag is a Portland/Washington DC based quartet consisting of Carrie Brownstein, Mary Timony, Rebecca Cole, and Janet Weiss. The members of Wild Flag have played in numerous and notable bands, including but not limited to: Helium, The Minders, Croissant Cocktail, Feeble Knees, Quasi, Dogz, Sleater-Kinney, @@@, The Consortium, Asia, and Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks.


Their premiere video, and the lead off single “Romance” off their upcoming self titled debut, out September 13th.


Wild Flag - Romance from Merge Records on Vimeo.

National Anthem Mashup

Grant Woolard is so patriotic, he sang the national anthems of six countries -and then mashed them up in this musical collage. It works surprisingly well! You’ll hear the anthems of Germany, Canada, France, the UK, Spain, and the US.

The World’s Response to 9/11 (10 year anniversary)

A decade ago this today, people all over the world stood shoulder-to-shoulder in mourning, solidarity, sympathy and friendship with the people of the United States. Here are a few of those international reactions, both organized and spontaneous, that occurred in the days following September 11, 2001.

In London, the Star Spangled Banner played during the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace, while traffic came to a standstill in The Mall nearby.

In Beijing, tens of thousands of people visited the U.S. Embassy, leaving flowers, cards, funeral wreaths and hand-written notes of condolence on the sidewalk out front.

In Moscow, women who spoke no English and had never been to the U.S. were captured on film sobbing in front of a makeshift tribute on a sidewalk, and every single church and monastery in Romania held a memorial prayer.

In the Middle East, both the Israeli president and the Palestinian leader condemned the attacks, and made a show of donating blood.

In Dublin, shops and pubs were closed during a national day of mourning, and people waited in a three-hour line to sign a book of condolences.

In India, children taped up signs that read, “This is an attack on all of us,”










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