Category Archives: video
El Gran Garmendia
OK, rediffusion again (this time from the Automata / Automaton Blog), but it’s just toooo wonderful to miss:
Imogen Heap
like nobody else:
Can’t Make It Here
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):
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)