Stuff
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It’s Not That Serious • A Dance Film by Ricky Ubeda
Sucker for good dance routine, me. Never heard this Vampire Weekend track “Sympathy” either. Double bonus.
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Brutal and beautiful? Storm (I & II) by Gener8ion
Caught listening to BBC Radio 1 yesterday I picked up on a comment about this song’s video… been listening (and snatching an occasional peek) on repeat since.
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Make it sh*tty.
Gotta love the Scandis… [were vikings, don’ give a sh*t?] Digital products and services keep getting worse. In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved into enshittification and how to resist it. The report shows how this phenomenon affects both consumers and society at large,…
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PRETTY LIGHTS around the block (directors cut)
I only just came across this video. It’s already 11 years old, oh my. The music might have dated a bit (I still like it) but the video is a cracker… (Found in a 2013 page from fstoppers: “The Best Video Combining Stills and Motion We’re Going to See All Year“)
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Blue Monday. Covered by Orkestra Obsolete.
I missed this when it came out last year to celebrate 40 [!!!!] years since New Order’s Blue Monday was released back in March 1983. Here Orkestra Obsolete play it on instruments and gadgets from the 1930s. Can’t touch the original but it’s a great fun tribulte.
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C. Tangana – Oliveira Dos Cen Anos (Video Oficial)
Apropos of culture/ football, music and heart… A spectacular anthem celebrating Celta de Vigo’s centenary. Very nice work, Mr Tangana. “Himno del Centenario del R.C. Celta de Vigo (1923-2023)”
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Woodstock ’99. Trainwreck/Clusterf*ck.
Woodstock ’69 Don’t know how many times I watched the original documentary of the 1969 Woodstock Festival. This was back in the late eighties, I was a late teen, wannabe musician. That film documented a unique, historic moment of music and counterculture combined. It was around the Second Summer of Love – Channel Four (who…
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Monkey Weekend 2022
Monkey Weekend in El Puerto de Santa Maria. Always different. Always new. Indie Español, always. This year’s event: Friday 13 and Saturday 14th May, 2022, El Puerto de Santa Maria, Cadíz, Spain. (What’s Monkey Weekend?) It’s been way too long and while not the busiest ever, everybody there was up for it. I only knew…
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Instagram? No, Autochrome.
These arresting ethereal images seem to be the product of contemporary art direction heavy on nostalgic whimsy. In fact they are from 1913. These are autochromes by one artistically inclined engineer, Lieutenant Colonel Mervyn O’Gorman, of his niece[?] in Lulworth Cove. Instagram that. Restored by BabelColour (Stuart Humphreys). Follow him on Twitter, of course. …
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[Generation] Logo
Love, love, love this song. It’s “old” now, from 2007, back when the hipster movement was just starting to gain traction around the world. Ironic and witty. Your gran’s got her own logo.
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Los Jaguares de la Bahía – Contribution (Video Oficial)
Not everybody’s cup of tea (but they’re wrong), Paco Loco is arguably the most important producer of the Spanish indie-garage scene. Strictly left-field, an essential part of Monkey Week* [El Puerto de Santa Maria variants]. Los Jaguares de la Bahía is the outfit he does his own thing with. Watch and listen, listen and watch.…
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Monkey Weekend 2019
A classic Monkey Week*end 2019 The signature nature of the ‘ALL-NEW’ Monkey Weekends is their brevity. Only a couple of gigs on Friday night, a full Saturday and then just a couple of get-togethers on Sunday. Flamin’ Groovies Kicking off as the event headliners. Unfortunately, they arrived without their singer Roy Loney who was injured…
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US comic history 101
Shame it’s only dealing American publishers (really should have started with Frans Masereel’s Passionate Journey) but a great article covering the history of comics. Starts with Superman, Captain Marvel, Batman, then on through Crumb to Alan Moore’s Watchmen and beyond. Click through to the Vulture and read about the 100 Pages That Shaped Comics From Mickey…
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Chris Coyier: Thinking like a Front-End Developer
Very entertaining talk from Mr Coyier of CSS Tricks about the sometimes contradictory requirements facing front-end developers today. In this video, he explores his notion of The Great Divide in front-end dev. As he puts it: The divide is between people who self-identify as a (or have the job title of) front-end developer, yet have…
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Comics, art magazines, swag.
The Here Gallery & Bookshop in Bristol – it’s the best little “illustrated paper goods” store this side of Hades and a favourite-city-pilgrimage thing of mine. As is the CAC Malaga when in Malaga or the horse houses of Utrecht [misheard in 1980]. But completely different. Thank you for being there, @thingsfromhere.
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Espanish gitana Barcelones. K te cagas.
I prefer her track Malamente but this _video_ is a hum-dinger. Perhaps this more downbeat and mantra-like song helps the cinematically stylised symbolism shine through. Like a flamethrower.
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Render AE animations to iOS, Android and React Native…
Open-source plugin to export animations from Adobe After Effects. From AirBnB.
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Banksy made a Simpsons intro? Yup.
Missed this one from a few years back. Where was I? NYT wrote up on how it got done in this article: ‘The Simpsons’ Explains Its Button-Pushing Banksy Opening. Fabulous.
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