Having a Mustache en Espanol
With Moustache May in full swing, and my Team Western stache in full effect, I have to admit staches have been on my mind.
This video = brilliant.
Iiro Rantala New Trio on YouTube
I found this video of the Iiro Rantala New Trio via some videos of the beatboxer Felix Zenger.
The guitar player, Marzi Nyman, is obviously completely insane (that first solo from 0:18-0:24 sounds like a digital squirrel dying in a blender.) And a trio consisting of multi-genre piano, avant garde electric guitar, and beatbox is decidedly odd. And the first 1:30 of the oddly-titled song seems extremely appropriately-titled. And then somehow, someway…
It mostly works for me (minus the guitar tone), especially from 4:00 onward. I’ve been whistling the melodies for most of the day. File under: not really my thing, but I’m sort of glad it exists.
Why? Because chances are, you didn’t expect to see Gnarls Barkley’s Crazy played on a theremin today, that’s why.
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Art of the Title Sequence is a blog about movie/TV title sequences and their designers. Big video. Big. Found via Wiseacre’s Twitter (which sounds like a disease or a deadly curve all the kids go racing on like daredevils.)
I miss Michael Jordan. And I don’t even really like basketball.
The Utah Saints video for Something Good is the best thing ever (this week).
Robert Randolph, Campbell Brothers, and Sacred Steel
Robert Randolph (pictured) and The Campbell Brothers are a part of a musical style called “sacred steel*”. Born out of the House of God (Which Is the Church of the Living God the Pillar and Ground of the Truth Without Controversy) denomination (I kid you not), it leans heavily on the use of the pedal steel guitar in church services instead of an organ.
Watch Robert Randolph getting funky with I Need More Love and a short clip of Purple Haze or The Campbell Brothers makin’ church folk dance here and here.
*Sacred Steel is also German metal band.
Photo via the unstoppably amazing Danny Clinch
Old Photos on Flickr
Cameron Daigle takes us on a walk down (his) memory lane with a variety of old pictures and insightful commentary. Great editing and timing all around.
Regarding Flickr video: I’m curious to see how useful/cluttery it is after the first few weeks of new-toy-syndrome wear off and people start using it “normally” as a part of their Flickr uploading process. Also: the fact that I can’t comment without the video stopping and reloading is annoying.
Flickr has added video uploading. Pro users can upload up to 90-second, 150MB clips.
Improv Everywhere, those purveyors of seemingly random, though obviously-well-planned public improv awesomeness, showed up for a little league baseball game in Hermosa Beach, California armed with the names, numbers, and batting order of all of the players. And the Goodyear Blimp. And lots of stuff in-between. Watch the highlights or the post-game press conference.
Two friends I met when I was living in Dallas, Melissa and Vanessa Peraldo, are dancing with Dutch company GOTRA now. Here’s a highlight video from I Have a Dream, a performance they did last year. (I admittedly know absolutely nothing about modern dance, and have no idea what’s going on in this video, but I know they’re very good at what they do.)
The Blankenships made a homemade hairdryer a few weeks ago.
The theatrical trailer for Hellboy II: The Golden Army is out. Yes, please.
Office Hijinks on Vimeo
The Bagpipes originated from Ireland and Scotland, and remain now a very common musical instrument. Bagpipes are a class of musical instrument, aerophones using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag. The term is equally correct in the singular or plural, although pipers most commonly talk of “pipes” and “the bagpipe.”
Lee McDerment and I impersonating a bagpipe on Vimeo. And yes, I’m fully aware (now) that we’re actually doing an impression of the bagpipe, not an impersonation. But for the sake of consistency, it stands. I hope the faux-pas doesn’t detract from your viewing of our tandem tomfoolery.
Battlestar Galactica starts back up on Friday. If you’re not a fan, you’re missing out.
Tom Waits performing Step Right Up on West German television show Rockpalast in 1977. This whole 15 song set is on YouTube.
Unleash Conference 2008 Minisite
I just launched a minisite for NewSpring Church’s Unleash Conference featuring the video content of the two main sessions from this year (and last year), some photography (from myself and anyone tagging their conference photos with unleash08), and a few other goodies.
In leu of a typical blog, I thought we’d try using Twitter as a way to relay information for Unleash 09 and updates. We’ll see how that works out. Obviously, everyone doesn’t have a Twitter account, but I’d wager enough do (or will) to make it a viable experiment.
I’m constantly running into roadblocks, both small and large, while we’re hosted/CMSed by our current provider. Their templates are fairly worthless, so I’m just building pages from scratch, but their core technologies are all Microsoft-based (no PHP, no .htaccess, no anything fun) and they have control of our DNS right now, which makes it absurdly difficult to get anything done quickly or easily. They will go away soon. I will rejoice. All that to say, sorry about the lack of clean URLs; I know nothing about ASP other than I don’t want to use it.
For the typography lovers, I’m using Mike Cina’s quirky tall Jute for most of the display text. I’ve been wanting to use it on a project for (literally) years, but nothing really clicked until this site.