Music Share: Media Remixed

Long before Jon Stewart made a career of media criticism via judicious editing, and back when media went viral at the glacial pace of traded bootlegs, a few studio pioneers were using clips from television as their raw materials for media criticism.

Here's Emergency Broadcast Network in 1992 remixing Dan Quayle in Watch Television:



And here's another track from 1992—Steinski setting George Bush I to The Jackson 5 with the surprisingly relevant It's Up To You (Television Mix):



See also on YouTube: We Will Rock You by EBN. And there's info about a great collection of Steinski's work here: What Does It All Mean?

Don't hate the media, become the media! (And remix it.)
Mar 30th, 2009, 8:06 pm

Bouncy Ride

bouncy ride
Mar 28th, 2009, 8:13 pm
  • Wikirank
    Visualize the most viewed wikipedia articles, or compare the views of different articles. Here's more information about the launch from Jeff Veen: Announcing Wikirank.
  • Laughing Meme: Streams, affordances, Facebook, and rounding errors
    "I've always thought their status updates design was brilliant. Not because it was usable or attractive, I've always thought it was terrible. But because their design didn’t make promises they couldn’t keep." Painful and true advice: make sure you can deliver what you promise through design. [via rc3]
  • LiveScience: Why Toddlers Don't Do What They're Told
    "The pupil measurements showed that 3-year-olds neither plan for the future nor live completely in the present. Instead, they call up the past as they need it."
Mar 25th, 2009, 10:00 pm
  • NYT: Growing Up on Facebook
    "As a survivor of the postage-stamp era, college was my big chance to doff the roles in my family and community that I had outgrown, to reinvent myself, to get busy with the embarrassing, exciting, muddy, wonderful work of creating an adult identity. Can you really do that with your 450 closest friends watching, all tweeting to affirm ad nauseam your present self?" [via davenetics]
Mar 23rd, 2009, 10:00 pm

Music Share: Bebo Valdés

I'm enjoying just about everything from Bebo Valdés right now. He was a pianist, arranger, and band leader in pre-revolution Cuba. He arranged high energy big band songs like this, Bilongo sung by Rolando Laserie:



Valdés left Cuba for Europe and continues to record today. I especially enjoy his solo piano work where you hear echoes of his time at the Tropicana like Cuba Linda from his 2006 album Bebo:



See also on YouTube: Americana from his Blanco y Negro concert. You can find more of his early big band songs on Guapachá con Bebo Valdés y sus Amigos.
Mar 23rd, 2009, 8:18 pm

Sun for the Dog

Sun For the Dog
Mar 21st, 2009, 9:49 am
  • F.lux
    this app "...makes the color of your computer's display adapt to the time of day, warm at night and like sunlight during the day." This looks great, but I'd like the app to remind me not to do any photo color-adjustments at night if I open Photoshop.
Mar 20th, 2009, 10:00 pm
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First Flowers

First Flowers
Mar 18th, 2009, 12:49 pm
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Music Share: On Green Dolphin Street

On Green Dolphin Street is my favorite jazz standard. I just never get tired of the melody. Here's the 1958 Miles Davis Sextet version featuring Bill Evans, John Coltrane, and Cannonball Adderley:



And for contrast here's the same song recorded by Chet Baker a year earlier with a complete lack of urgency, West Coast style:



See Also on YouTube: Sonny Rollins 1968 where the structure of the song is hanging on by a thread.

(You can get both tracks on Amazon for 99 cents.)
Mar 16th, 2009, 10:07 pm
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