A collection of digital wonders and some other stuff.
As often as I find myself listening to The Beatles, I haven’t seen much video footage of them playing (except from the Ed Sullivan show and in their movie, Help!).
Here they are, in colour, doing their most famous performance ever, The Beatles Rooftop Concert:
Hit play or watch The Beatles Rooftop Concert on YouTube. Also part 2 and part 3.
Over the weekend I had my first cross country skiing experience. Some friends and I took the Goat Creek Trail 19km from Canmore to Banff, and followed it up with a nice hot dip at the Banff Hot Springs.
Here’s a clip of my friend Duane zipping past the camera.
[Goat Trail – Flickr]
Footage by my friend Andy Davies.
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!
About 15 years ago, my cousin Mike got a copy of the movie Gizmo! for Christmas. He raved about how hilarious is was, but it was in black and white and released in 1977; I was skeptical.
Gizmo! is a documentary about some of the thousands of inventions that did things we never thought needed doing, or in ways we never considered doing them. A respectful, yet humorous tribute to the inventors whose vision, however far-reaching, was just a little off the mark.
After watching it, our whole family fell in love with it and to this day, my dad still occasionally impersonates Cecil from the first scene. “I don’t know, but I’ll try!”
Here is Gizmo!, embedded for your own viewing enjoyment.
Hit play or watch Gizmo! at YouTube.