I’ve always wanted to do something like this, but I never really had the wall space…or painting ability for that matter. A guy with an empty wall in his apartment made a stop motion of his artistry turning the black space into a mural of ‘The Great Wave off Kanagawa, a classic Japanese woodblock by Katsushika Hokusai. The vid has a solid backing track by the Foo Fighters, and plays with some cool paint characters too: definitely a fun watch. As the story goes, the artist needed to move to a larger apartment due to a ‘monkey invasion’, and created a 2nd stop motion of the take down. Catch it after the jump. (More…)
Pomp. La. MOOSE. I have no idea if it means anything. What I do know is that they do amazing covers. They’re right up there in the cover pantheon that includes Jamie Cullum, Marco Benevento, Halloween, Alaska, and The Bad Plus.
And apparently I’m not the only one who’s noticed: the majority of the videos on their YouTube Channel have over a million views. Damn.
Perhaps the more important detail is how they got to be famous. They don’t play that many live shows. They don’t really promote themselves, at least not in the traditional corporate sense. They just sit in their San Fran apartment with their ambiguous relationship status, tons of instruments, a video camera, and some recording equipment and make great music. I love the internet. It finds real talent. And, for some reason, an inordinate amount of silly cat videos. As the world should be.
Get more Pomplamoose over at YouTube. Or support them on iTunes.
So, now that The Flight of the Conchords have just kind of…disappeared…it seems like the market has once again opened up for a comedy troupe from Pacific waters. And in a series of events that would make the Conchords themselves cringe, it looks like a comedy trio from none other than Australia is poised to take their spots. Now, we already knew that Australia had some comedic chops, but now it’s clear that they’re playing for keeps. The Axis of Awesome played their Four Chord Song at this year’s Melbourne International Comedy Festival, and while I’ll admit I was skeptical at first, it was really quite clever.
In a companion piece to the love flick 500 Days of Summer, director Marc Webb tapped into his creative juices and concoted a little romantic vignette for the starring duo Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, set to She and Him’s minor hit “Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?” Naturally, I eat up anything Ms. Deschanel touches, and this was no exception. Enjoy.
The kids of New York’s P.S.22 are SO much more musically cultured than I was at their age. Led by their maestro Mr. B (probably one of the hippest faculty members the public school system has), these choral kids do Pheonix, Alicia Keys/Jay-Z, and Owl City (don’t judge). And they’ve even got ties with my neck of the woods, having teamed up with IC’s Ithacapella a little while back. See the rest of their (rather extensive) repertoire here.
False. I do not, as I would like to keep the option of marrying Ezra Koenig open without it being weird. Anyway, although I don’t watch SNL quite often, I did scrounge around Hulu when I heard they were the musical guest on Saturday’s show. This, of course, is yet another example of their musical greatness. Not to mention, check out how happy drummer Chris Tomson looks. Comme toujours, jouissez.
A few weeks back, indie (?) band Ok Go teamed up with Notre Dame University and released a souped up marching band rendition of their new single “This Too Shall Pass”. Now they’re back with another version of the song and another snazzy music video to go with it. This time, they channelled the spirt of Rube Goldberg (I dunno, was that even an actually guy?) and Wiley Coyote to lay down some sweet-ass chain reactions. Enjoy.
