Posts tagged what?
Posts tagged what?
This is a great video of UK illustrator Patrick Vale drawing Lower Manhattan as viewed from the Empire State Building, entirely freehand. The music is Moanin’ by Charles Mingus. (viabooooooom)
This video starts and finishes about as fast as my most recent trip to New York.
Also - the music is smashin’ is it not?
One Direction Transformed of the Day: All that One Direction’s “What Makes You Beautiful” needed was a little love. Naturally, The Piano Guys don’t disappoint.
This is too good not to share.
Watch this, then WATCH OUT: this will go viral before you know it.
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Underground Music of the Day: Mondays suck — so here’s a busking quintet called Spank covering “Do You Love Me” at NYC’s Union Square subway stations.
[thanks celine!]
I love this. I miss this.
I love this. I miss this.
I love this.
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Music Video of the Day: For their latest music video-slash-Chevy Super Bowl ad, OK Go drove down a two-mile stretch of desert lined with 1,000 instruments in a Chevy Sonic fitted with retractable pneumatic arms to perform a very complicated version of “Needing/Getting” that took four months to prep and four days to shoot.
[okgo.]
I guess today’s just a music video with cars kinda day…
(Source: thedailywhat)
good:
At This Vending Machine, Swapping is the New Buying
Enter the Swap-O-Matic, a fresh New York City-based vending machine project that wants to “shift culture away from an emphasis on unconscious consumption” by encouraging people to donate and receive used items for free.
In an office of primarily full time volunteers, maybe this should become a requirement here.
Kickass Cover of the Day: Sarah Blackwood and the four members of Walk Off the Earth split one guitar in their striking cover of Gotye and Kimbra’s Sting-ish single “Somebody That I Used to Know.”
[reddit.]
5 people. 3 part harmony. 1 guitar = my.mind.blown.
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I’m on the road for the next 11 weeks with Invisible Children - no bike. no problem, right?
false. I see this, my jaw drops and I wonder once more why I did not strap my bike to our van yesterday before we left San Diego.
Tyre poetry. Poems left by tourbus on sand. Vlieland NL. Photo by Anouk Randag
this made me go “whoooooa”
Falling objects synchronized to produce rhythm.
Gravity is just so.damn.cool