Tag: Internet culture
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Alasdair Beckett-King – Every Internet Video from 2003
If you don’t know the alternate world of Alasdair Beckett-King and just think he was that ginger impossibly white guy from Mock The Week, you are really missing out. He has been producing amazingly funny and on point videos for years. This parody of 2003 Flash videos has me having NewGrounds and b3ta flashbacks –…
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Return of DJNoNo with a Cat Vibing Mashup & Challenging Times
Oh dear, DJNoNo has returned, well he never left like a new strain lurking or the guest who never leaves… Seems he has taken the Cat Vibing meme with evergreen Ievvan Polkka by street musician Bilal Göregen to a new (low) level by adding accordions, namely Donald Where’s Your Troosers to it, with added donks.…
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Voice Cloning AI and OpenAI Jukebox
It seems like those spooky AI images and sharpening now we are on the brink of AI voice and music generation – i.e. feeding in acapellas or instrumentals and the neural network generates new versions – with all the legal headaches that suggest. Is it owned by the computer or the original source artist? What…
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(Not) The End Of The World
Some songs arrive and they are so good and timely you can’t work out why they aren’t massive. Even when played on the likes of 6Music, some songs seem to miss the boat, and I usually want to correct this error as much as I can. Max Pope’s (Not) The End Of The World as…
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Here come the New Atheists
“If you want to prove people you can be good without God, then look in the mirror and start with yourself” Love Jamie Kilstein and his diatribes against the new breed of Dawkins atheists (usually in my experience Men’s Rights #gamergate 4chan dweebs, conspiracy types and general nutjobs). It needs to be said, you can’t…
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Lifehacks and Buzzfeed: made of dumb
Love Maddox and the ‘Best Show In The Universe’ and agree with these videos – Buzzfeed and the copy sites are full of lame, uncredited images and pointless listicles. And Lifehacks do sometimes get very dangerous – some of the electricity ones I’ve seen actually look like Darwin Award submissions. Let’s wrap that power cord…