This one came around again today and it seems to be at least as relevant now (I pointed to it 6 months ago, but sometimes repetition is a GOOD thing):
Category Archives: video
Katy Hill
It’s somehow not quite fair to rediffuse stuff that appears on BoingBoing (I mean, who doesn’t read BoingBoing?), but this one is just too wonderful to miss:
Kalamazoo
Over at dippermouth.blogspot.com there’s a discussion of Louis Armstrong’s take on “I’ve Got A Gal in Kalamazoo” that includes a wonderful video clip with an even more right-on intro:
…(Regarding the vocal by Tex and The Modernaires, I once showed this to an old friend from high school and all he could say was, “White people….ugh.”)
[but hang in there –after 4 minutes of whiteface bathos there’s a specTACular Nicholas Brothers dancing take on the tune]:
Bartok
Piano isn’t something I do, but it’s fascinating to watch those who can:
(this via Echidne of the Snakes)
Geography lives
I’ve been saying so for years, and here’s a lovely example:
That tumbling strain
Musical Schadenfreude, via Gizmodo:
Chris Jordan on excess
Now THIS is great teaching:
(file under numeracy, data, visualization, anthropology, Nacirema, anthropology, argybargy)
Branford Marsalis lays it out for you
mmmmm
“…spilled the blood that turns the wheel of retribution…”
Yup.
Camden clog
oh yes!
(via The Guardian)