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The making of ‘turntable rider’: “the bike wheels become jog wheels.The handbrakes become sound pads. Mix and scratch at will.”
World Class Brass: Kinetika Bloco recorded at Notting Hill Carnival 2011 by Nightjar for BBC Radio 2.
The Kinetika Bloco is a young group of brass, woodwind, percussion and steel pan players, plus amazing dancers. Young people can join them for their Spring or Summer Schools.
Radio 2 calls them a “unique new British Carnival sound with a decidedly London edge”. They draw their influences from the Caribbean, Brazil, West and Southern Africa, New Orleans jazz, Funk and Hip Hop.
They’ve performed at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Cultural Festival, London Jazz Festival, Thames Festival, The South Bank and at the Unveiling of the Nelson Mandela Statue at Parliament Square.
I used to work for Kinetika and ever time I hear the Bloco it sends shivers down my spine! They are absolutely amazing to see live.
.@Flowmill : by @owlproject and @wna. A floating millhouse + waterwheel on the River Tyne, powering a series of mechanical musical instruments. Opens March 2012.
Culture Hack Day #chd11 was an immense, challenging and innovative project to work on. It brought together key cultural organisations (including Crafts Council, UK Film Council, Culture Grid, National Maritime Museum, BBC Archive + more) and some wonderful developers who all gave their time for free. The challenge was to come up with new innovative ideas using open data from the culture sector. Its production was driven by Royal Opera House, with support from Wieden + Kennedy London, Google, Arts Council England & Creative Industries Knowledge Transfer Network.
Alongside the developers furiously hacking away over the weekend, we ran a series of talks, sparked off from the title “What if?” around open data. They can be viewed here - with some inspiring provocations from people such as Leila Johnston, who edits the Hackers! newspaper, Chris Thorpe from ArtFinder, Tom Armitage who works at BERG and Clare Reddington from iShed.
You can see a full list of the hacks that were developed here - a few highlights were When Should I Visit? by Dan W highlighting when the *least* busiest times for museums are; a Museum of Minecraft bringing digital archives into the online gaming world; mobile iterations of data searching making them more accesible to the general public including Stef’s Culture Grid apps; more whimsical haiku generators including Haiku Guardian & BBC Haiku Player; plus Pepys’ Shows by Matthew Somerville and Clare Lovell bringing Samuel Pepys’ pithy reviews of theatre to the masses.
‘Dead Drops’ a project by Berlin based artist Aram Bartholl. An anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space - USB flash drives cemented into walls, buildings and curbs. You are invited to go to these places (so far 5 in NYC) to drop or find files on a dead drop. Plug your laptop to a wall, house or pole to share your files and data.
Previously Adam has filmed people living out their World of Warcraft characters, made a giant Google Maps marker and placed CAPTCHAs in real life
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Beautiful Oregon indie-folk sounds of Laura Viers accompanied by a stopstart animation featuring peachy fireworks and woodland animals toasting marshmallows. ahhhh… Apparently the song was inspired by a type of peach called July Flame.
Filmed on Hackney Marshes, evoking the dreaded cross country run of our youth, this muddy video for The Temper Trap’s single Love Lost makes shivers down the spine with the Yorkshire sounding teacher hollering “round t’wood - Colliers Wood - past the farm and back in 30 minutes. you got it? - now get on with it!”
Have pop stars got too big for their boots? Watch LCD Soundsystem get ritually humiliated by pandas whilst singing about “Drunk Girls”. Reminds me of the scene in Gremlins when the “bad ones” take over the town. There’s no putting pandas in the food blender in this video from Spike Jonze though.
Brilliantly complicated cause-and-effect video for the OK Go single, This Too Shall Pass, coming after the contraversial decision of their record label to not allow sharing of their previous marching band themed video. This resulted in an open letter from the lead singer trying to explain the situation to a storm of enraged fans - basically the reason was something about EMI, contracts and money.
This new video has a sponsorship deal set up with State Farm so their record label still makes cash even when the video is viewed outside of youtube. A taste of things to come?
If you like their visual style, check out their first video filmed on treadmills (yes - in 2006! Before Berocca ripped them off). If you watch the cause and effect video closely, you’ll see an ironic reference to the treadmills video showing on a TV that’s smashed with a sledgehammer.
Live twitter visualisation from @stamen design of the Vancouver Winter Olympics 2010. Check out their other live twitter streaming experiment for MTV Video Music Awards in NY where Kanye West and Asshole were trending topics for a while - these words were pulled out before it went live on TV…
