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FINALLY. Right? It’s been like, a month since our last Mixtape. Happy 2010. Christmas jokes. All that. We’ve been busy hooking up the odds and ends of a shiny new layout for the Apples and VCRs site. Now that that’s all done, we’ll be back to posting everyone’s favorite quasi-legal blog entry, The Apples and VCRs Mixtape, each and every Friday (or thereabouts). Huzzah.
So, to start things off, we’re channeling the land of silly hats, silly walks, and silly foods: Great Britain. The gang’s all here, from Jamie Cullum, Jamie T, Roots Manuva, Groove Armada, Goldfrapp and Noah and The Whale. Oy, it’s smashing good. Lifts. Kippers. And so on.
In This Week’s Mixtape…
01. Always Like This // Bombay Bicycle Club
02. Chaka Demus (Ben Bones Remix) // Jamie T
03. Don’t Stop The Music // Jamie Cullum
04. Blue Skies // Noah and The Whale
05. Banquet // Bloc Party
06. Ooh La La // Goldfrapp
07. Children’s Story // Slick Rick
08. Purple Haze // Groove Armada
09. Witness (1 Hope) // Roots Manuva
10. Fit But You Know It // The Streets
11. Ketto // Bonobo
12. Postcards // Faithless
13. Season of the Witch // Donovan
14. A Brighter Beat // Malcolm Middleton
15. Merry Happy // Kate Nash
16. Glorybox // Portishead
So, two things: first off, YouTube and The Sundance Film Festival have teamed up to play some of the 2010 entries online for a limited time. Check them out.
Second, related to the first, is the film Voice on the Line (above), which tells a fairytale plot of wire tapping, covert CIA ploys, and phone operators. But the coolest thing about the film is the jerky photo flip book style, giving the impression of authenticity and fantasy. And, at the end, subliminal images of girls in their skivvies getting playfully spanked by their, let’s say, husbands. Neat.
From Maccessory designers Twelve South comes the BookBook, the Mac cover for the digital literati. Look like a bookworm when you’re really pursuing Facebook tending to Farmville or whatever it is that the kids do these days. Each one is hand crafted with dual zippers and a padded interior. Buy it here. View their full line of insanely cool products here.
Straight from (where else) Japan, D-Bros stationary will ship you a parcel of post-it notes you’d rather eat than write on. The name is a portmanteau of the Japanese ‘kudamono’, fruit, and ‘memo’…memo. In any case, it’s a really sleek design that will look great on a minimalist’s desk or artfully arranged into a fruit basket. (More…)
Yeah, so I am a little biased, but it’s not unfounded. This is a seriously cool video, coffee geek aside. Back in my days as a barista, we actually used Intelligentsia Coffee as a supplier and roaster. Intelligentsia runs a very cool outfit out of Venice, California, and over the years have exploded onto the national scene.
Anyway, they recently released a very spiffy video detailing the finer points of making espresso. I recently got into a discussion about the use of black/white + one color combo in film and art…here, I think they’ve struck a nice balance. Keep an eye on their Vimeo page, as there are still another two installments left in the series.
Fifty sheets of paper and a blowtorch. If those aren’t the proper materials for an interesting piece art, I don’t know what is.
London based Kate MccGwire is an artist who thrives in the unknown. Drawing inspiration from Sigmund Freud’s concept of unheimliche (literally translated as a place where the familiar becomes unfamiliar), she peels, burns, tears, and manipulates the status quo. Case in point, the fire and paper piece she calls Insular. See more from Kate at her portfolio.
A while back we had flying cameras capturing light shows; this time, the guys at Lichtfaktor are showing us how they do it the other way around. The Cologne Artists’ Collective, consisting of VJ $ehvermögen, Visionlabz, and JIAR, uses everything from bicycle to LED lights to project electromagnetic visions onto urban ‘scapes. (More…)
And Gawker praises the “Ivy League dorks…warbling and dancing awkwardly…”
And don’t miss the cameo by Brian Williams!
You can’t help but hate that it’s soooo damn catchy. The brainchild of Class of ’06 grad and 17th President, Andrew Johnson (if Wikipedia serves me right on this), who says that the video is “campy on purpose,” intending to make Yale more “accessible and pop-friendly.” Sounds about right, given Yale’s upcoming brush with the cast of Jersey Shore.
The smartest aspect of this entire project? Choosing to disable comments on YouTube.
Nothing but three high definition minutes of ample facial hair reading selections from classic literature about beards. Further proof that Vimeo > than YouTube.
Scott Weaver has spent 34 four years and 1 million toothpicks constructing a small scale replica of San Francisco that’s 9 feet tall, 7 feet wide, and 2 feet deep. I…have nothing more to say. Read the full article here. Watch a video of the madness after the jump.
