Youtube is now offering wide screen full length movies. If you have never seen “Koyaanisqatsi”, then maybe it’s about time. In this movie, there is no dialog, just music by Philip Glass through the whole thing.
You might be saying, “I can’t sit in front of my computer for 2 hours”, if that is the case, [...]
09.27Fast Film (video)
Watch this movie and see if you don’t agree that it is one of the most wonderful creative things you’ve ever seen. Of course all the classic movie clips have been ‘lifted” without permission so it might not last long on the hosted site. Either way, to appreciate this you must see it. Turn up [...]
If you haven’t seen this movie, you should. It is a beautiful and haunting documentary done almost entirely without words. Wikipedia’s description is perfectly accurate.
Koyaanisqatsi: Life out of Balance is a 1982 film directed by Godfrey Reggio with music composed by Philip Glass and cinematography by Ron Fricke.
The film consists primarily of slow motion and time-lapse [...]
09.14Wilhelm Scream
While reading many reviews of movies on IMDB, the topic of ‘Wilhelm Scream’ came up many times. I finally had to track it down and see what it meant. Apparently, it meant more than I could have ever imagined.
The Wilhelm scream is often used for when a character is plummeting to a great distance, usually [...]
Many spoken word samples were not cleared which prevented this song from being released widely. Either way, this song is a great sequence of unrelated samples layered over a simple breakbeat rhythm. “Can you think of anything that talks? ‘uh uh uh uh a bird’ Some birds are funny when they talk”. Then let’s listen to a record as [...]
Mike Oldfield created a classic song that was used as a soundtrack to a very scary movie. It was called the exorcist. This music is beautiful even without the association with the movie. Seen here in a live performance from 1973. Why this song triggers such a dark foreboding is beyond me. Is it because [...]
09.08Crazy Frog (video)
I like popcorn. I could live on it. But did you know back in 1969 there was a song called popcorn? I still remember it clearly. It was early eurosynth pop, done on a Moog. Well, today, through the power of the internetz we can watch a frog do a techno remix in all his CGI glory. The [...]
Neill Blomkamp, the guy who did the dancing “Citroen transformer” ad created a short documentary about aliens who land in South Africa. They are treated like second class citizens. His portrayal of the aliens makes you feel sorry for them. All they want is food, jobs and good pay. Of course it is all fake, but it sure [...]
Because I collect old time radio shows, I’ve heard the audio of this before. This commercial is a public relations nightmare. Two neanderthals watch their wives mow the lawn and do laundry while they smoke cigarettes. All this is in a cartoon aimed at kids. The only thing that could make it worse is if they were drinking beer too. Maybe [...]
I try to stay above board and purchase music legally. But the legal search can be frustrating. The song “Runaway” by Del Shannon, cannot be purchased from the official website (they point you to iTunes, which I don’t use). I’m currently iPod free, iPhone free and DRM free. So, I was listening to a song by “Aly N [...]