Month: August 2014
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How NOT to file a DMCA
OK, DMCA and Cease and Desist as a mashup artist are inevitable, but I think this wins the award for the most stupid I’ve received. Digital Millennium Copyright Act allows anyone to file a claim, and pull a file down for copyright infringement. This is most usually seen to bad effect on YouTube, where we…
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Horse
From the weirder part of the internet comes this video from TomSka. It makes slightly more sense if you watch the other videos where Mrs Johnson the hyper intelligent horse from another dimension makes an appearance…but only slightly. The rest are really good, the cartoons and the live action bits, amazingly high quality you can…
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RC 263: England Streaming
Bertha, lovely Bertha the storm is here, war has a 100th birthday and gets more than a telegram from the Queen. Which is odd since the War to End All Wars is still living it up in the Ukrained and Gaza and there’s a strange light in the sky – I hope it’s aliens taking…
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Viv Stanshall’s Radio Flashes
Ooh look what just popped up on my computer (thank you Get iPlayer and PVR, yes Stanshall and Radiophonic search terms are always on scan), the BBC are replaying 3 episodes of what I presume the only high-quality versions they have of Viv Stanshall’s Radio Flashes, which was when he stood in for John Peel…
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Fiorucci made me Hardcore
I heard the new Jamie XX single (well new-ish) All Under One Roof Raving on 6Music and loved it, as someone who was there in the wings listening in, hardcore and rave will never die. And yes we kept it UK 😉 I then found out it was sampling this video by artist Mark Leckey…
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Cultural Appropriation Police
Not often I post a response to an article here, well, it always seems a little like hearing one-side of a conversation. But their comment system relies on Facebook (!), and given the fact I block the shit out of big bad Google and Fakebook I can’t actually comment. This article on ‘The Difference Between…