A collection of digital wonders and some other stuff
ZeFrank’s voice drawing tool lets you draw using your voice. Low volume turns counter-clockwise, medium volume goes straight, and high volume turns clockwise.
This is my very first attempt:
Tempting as it is, I wouldn’t want to be recorded making this kind of image — one feels very silly during the process. Kudos for anyone that tries the Voice Draw Beta in a public space.
This gorgeous stop motion pixilation by Yuval & Merav Nathan, with music by Oren Lavie, might just help you get through your Wednesday blues:
Hit play or watch Her Morning Elegance / Oren Lavie at YouTube.
A collection of writers, including my favourite, Malcolm Gladwell, offer praise to the power and poignancy of Barack Obama’s inaugural address in this worthwhile LA Times article
Also, San Fransisco’s Bush Street gets an update:
Not exactly backmasking, but close enough. A video of classical music being played… but backward:
https://web.archive.org/web/20100811022744/http://pandasmash.com/video.php?epi_id=131
[Backwards Beethoven – Revver]
Stuff White People Like glow in the dark t-shirt. Very meta.
(thanks Louise)
What happens when you play holiday music in a minor key? Evil Christmas Carols:
Hit play or watch Evil Christmas Carols at YouTube.
Happy Holidays everyone!
This collection of Face Art videos on Flickr is sure to drop your jaw, or at least creep you out just a little.
Last week I went to Jamaica for a little fun in the sun. Here are some photos I took while I was there:
See my Jamaica Flickr set for more.
Thursday night Bob Dylan performed at the Enmax Centre here in Lethbridge. He played a lot of songs that I didn’t particularly recognize and a few that I only JUST barely recognized.
I’m left to assume that after 40 years of the same songs, he tries to mix it up a bit. Personally I would have preferred to hear more of my “favourite” Bob Dylan songs (the ones that come up on my iPod for example) but having said that, it’s a rare and exciting event to see a living legend.
Update: I just read on wikipedia that after Bob Dylan’s 1979 conversion to Christianity, he decided he would no longer play any of his old material.
From the article: “Dylan refused to play any of his older compositions, as well as any secular material. Though Larry Myers had assured Dylan that his old compositions were not sacrilegious, Dylan would say he would not ‘sing any song which hasn’t been given to me by the Lord to sing.’ Fans wishing to hear his older songs openly expressed their disappointment. Hecklers continued to appear at his concerts, only to be answered by lectures from the stage. Dylan was firmly entrenched in his evangelical ways, and it would continue through his next album, whether his audience would follow or not.”