entries Tagged as [music]

Dance Revolution

‘the champagne starts to pour, you know we’re shaking like it’s 1984, and we danced all through the night as paris is burning’

Unofficial video of theSTART’s Dance Revolution.

Beautiful

‘Uninhabited islands, red light district, bloody family disassembly, lovers and husbands, cuckolds, sinking ships and search of treasure, love and pigeons’

Opium Project‘s video for Beautiful.

Found via Oksana Zhuravel

Craig!

And Craig continues the tradition. Dance Dance Dance!

(includes best of clips)

And strangely enough, I have a friend who used to work for a film company who once told me that Robert Downey Jr. – who was spotted at the next urinal over – likes to make foam when he pees.

And I don’t know for the life of me why I remember that.

Drew Carey dances

Remember the 90s?

The world needs more spontaneous dance numbers.

Slumdog typography, Bollywood dance

Finally saw Slumdog Millionaire. Really enjoyed the (Oscar winning) Jai Ho dance number (and titles) at the end of the film.

And
Here’s the Pussycat Dolls’ version (below).

Hello Brooklyn

‘Starring: Akzidenz Grotesk & Brooklyn’

Animation by Greg Solenström of Jay-Z’s Hello Brooklyn.

Found via Tipocracia

Neon Jesus

‘made using xeroxes of stills taken of the band, compiling them together to make an animation’

Video for Crocodiles‘ new single, Neon Jesus. Directed by Christin Turner.

Crocodiles will be at the Blue Lamp in Sacramento Tuesday June 29, 2010. With Dum Dum Girls and (the incredible) Chelsea Wolfe.

Found via Laura Edmisten

Acoustic Reckless

More from The Pretty Reckless.

EP just dropped today, full album out in August.

Eleanor

From Philly: The work of Eleanor Grosch.

More here. Twitter here, blog here.

Found via Dr. Shelley

Pops’ art

‘Well, you know, my hobbie (one of them anyway) is using a lot of scotch tape  . . .  pick out the different things during what I read and piece them together and [make] a little story of my own.’

Collages made by Louis ‘Pops’ Armstrong, from reel tape boxes, photos and other ephemera. More info here.

Happy Fathers Day everyone!



Louis Armstrong: La vie en Rose

Found via The Paris Review and Oscar Grillo

Louis in Germany

‘Ein Ausschnitt aus einem öffentlichen Konzert des King of Jazz’

The great Louis Armstrong. Concert recorded in Stuttgart, 1959.

Accented by some great title card artwork.

Found via Astrotype


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