A fantastic track by Miracle Fortress (a project of Montreal-based Graham van Pelt) that gets better every time you listen to it. Restraint but epic at the same time.
Miracle Fortress will perform in Utrecht’s EKKO on December 7.
The fuck. A “rider” is a list of wishes a performing artist demands when playing a gig. Now check out the rider of multimillionaire commercial crap electro house dj Steve Aoki.
When the LSD crew was dj’ing herself, we were happy when we got discounts on drinks.
A very impressive and entertaining Portal fan video. Awesome special effects.
My interpretation of what a real Portal gun would be like if one existed. Based on the video game, Portal. I tried to match the game as close as possible. This was the most challenging project I have ever undertaken, consisting of 3D tracking, seamless camera cuts and 3D camera projection. ENJOY! The Visual Effects.
Breakdowns will follow so watch for that.
For those of you that think the gun is a physical prop you can buy, well…..sorry to break the news to you, but it’s entirely CG. The 3D Portal gun was replacing/covering up a painted up coffee can with tracking markers.
Okay, here’s the weirdest thing you’ll come across on the intertubes today.
If you want to know what, I imagine, it would feel like to find yourself in the freakiest dark gay club imaginable whilst spacing on ketamine, or some such, listen to this. This could be the soundtrack to that.
Oddly captivating. Wait till the singing starts.
Wow, an HD-quality registration of Radiohead’s concert at Bonnaroo 2012. Over 140 minutes of Thom Yorke magic (who seems to be sporting the Richard D. James Windowlicker-era look). Don’t know how long it will be online before the copyright-mafia finds it, but until then here it is:
Here’s a beautiful short documentary about beachcombing culture on the Dutch Wadden Sea island of Texel. Because of its geographic location, lots and lots of stuff has washed up on the shore of Texel for hundreds of years. Hence, a particular beachcombing culture (‘jutterij’ in Dutch) has developed here, and you can find museums on the island of all the things that have been found through the years.
Shot in nice colors, with lots of moving images from days past and interviews with colorful local people.
A beautiful folk interpretation by Julia Stone of perhaps The National’s greatest song; that shows that really this is one of the best tracks of the past decade.
A carnivalesque promotion video of a book containing photographs by photographer Julian Cash of Burning Man visitors over many years. Looks pretty cool.
‘I Am The Walrus’ is one of The Beatles’ crappier songs. But time-stretched and slowed-down by 800%, it becomes something eerie, ambient and very much Sigur Rós-esque.
Set to the 1960s cult short film Vertige by Jean Beaudin. Described by Dangerous Minds as “a mix of LSD imagery, candy-colored sets, go go dancing, Vietnam war and horror movie stills and clips”.
A fantastic track that combines elements of American folk and country, psychedelic lo-fi sounds and a Nico-esque voice into a hazy but harmonic experimental looping blur. Really cool, listen to this.
40,000 people gather near the courtroom in Oslo to sing the 1970s song “Children of the Rainbow”, which was described by Breivik as Marxist propaganda. Fantastic.
Up to 40,000 Norwegians have staged an emotionally charged singalong in Oslo near the court building where Anders Behring Breivik is on trial for the murder of 77 people in a protest organisers said showed he had not broken their tolerant society.
“It’s we who win,” said guitar-strumming folk singer Lillebjørn Nilsen as he led the mass singalong and watched the crowd sway gently in the rain. Many held roses above their heads, and some wept.
The protest followed several days of defiant testimony from Breivik, who has admitted killing his victims but denied criminal guilt.
The crowd chose to sing Children of the Rainbow, a song that extols the type of multicultural society Breivik has said he despises and one he dismissed during the trial as Marxist propaganda.
