Month: March 2012
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Cat Slap Joy Division
Simply indescribable! Apparently Siamese cats like that sort of thing (a cat would jump off if it didn’t like it). Strangest thing I’ve seen in a long while, though. (via Paul Parkinson)
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Everyday I’m Flapping – Charleston goes Party Rockin’
Talking of early jazz, I love this mashup from the ever-talented Oki, very funny…Charleston just goes with anything, doesn’t it? Example, here’s Christina Aguilera with The Charleston from RikkiRok I used on my I Hate Jazz mix (and strangely credited the wrong Rikki mashup…oops!) And the other Charleston mashup I know of isn’t online, it’s…
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Oh no, what’s happened to Soho?
Sadly this fun video by the Correspondents has a more serious side – for a while now the life and mix of people that’s made Soho (in)famous has been fighting a war with corporates, expensive bars, trinket shops and suchlike. We go there less and less…for instance our favourite restaurant Cafe Espana which I’ve been…
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Close Encounters of the Braces Tower & Kraftwerk Kind
One of the nice things about the mashup world is people go off and do different things then pop up elsewhere – there is a life after mashups after all 😉 One of the early names I remember from Get Your Bootleg On and those early 2001/2 mashups I heard is Braces Tower – and…
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Banksy on Advertising
Although I think there is some irony here with Banksy’s now superstar status and the fact some could compare having his street art pop up is also like someone throwing a brick to your head (and I won’t even go into the copyright controversy from the Bristol Museum exhibition) I think the message is a…
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My Little Kony
Love this video from Invisible Children, it spells out what I’ve been saying for ages is the new politic of online connection – which shines light on the strange apathy of looking the other way. Although I have a few minor reservations about this sort of high profile ‘RED’ style campaigning (transparency and cost of…