Videos
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Bring it on Down to Veganville
Nice to see Justin Timberlake in a Tofu suit on SNL in which the vegan isn’t the butt of the joke! (Via too many sources to count)
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History of Man in 3:30
Great animation from Steve Cutts. MAN from Steve Cutts on Vimeo. Animation created in Flash and After Effects looking at mans relationship with the natural world. facebook.com/SteveCuttsArt twitter.com/#!/Steve_Cutts www.stevecutts.com
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Reignwolf live on KEXP
Wow. That’s really about all one can say about Reignwolf. Kind of a one man White Stripes meets the child of Page and Hendrix on the spot where Robert Johnson sold his soul. Play this somewhere you can play it really loud: headphones, your garage, your office when no one else is at work. Worth…
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Veganism and Attention Science: Seeing the Gorilla
Cathy N. Davidson’s new book, Now You See it: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform thw Way We Live, Work, and Learn (see my review on Open Parenthesis), takes one of its core inspirations from an experiment by Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris, which you may have seen.
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Pokey LaFarge and the South City Three
Loving Pokey LaFarge and the South City Three, who I discovered via this Tiny Desk Concert from NPR (above).
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Cee Lo Green’s F&#* You in French Sign Language
(via Stereogum and other places) comes this French Sign Language reading of Cee Lo Green’s recent hit. Love the enthusiasm and attitude throughout.
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Strange Powers
(via NPR Music) Stephin Merritt of the Magentic Fields is the subject and star of a new documentary: Strange Powers. Apparently it was released on 10/27/10 and screened in Boston last April – but it won’t be available for the Netflix queue for a while.
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Pointless, Action-Free, and Totally Mesmerising
(via ze frank) – “pointless, action-free and totally mesmerising” (as described on b3ta) video shot with a high-speed camera from a fast-moving train in Bath. Every 7 seconds of video you watch represents 1 second of actuality. more info.