Yhancik Magazine

Seriously ?






(this last one is via womanonfire, thank you :D)

Ten years ago, what we call now "the traditional media" where inexhaustible on how the information superhighway was the future.

Today it looks like they're still stuck in the past, and definitely not understanding what the Internet is about.


This week's issue of a belgian magazine has 3 pages on "Youtube, memory of rock" (as in rock'n roll) with maybe a dozen of music related videos you can find on YouTube.



YouTube doesn't need a "tv program", and if you're going to compare it to something "old media", it's a library, not a television network.
Of course it wouldn't be uninteresting to have "suggestions" when you're going to the library, but it's a bit irrelevant of its potential.

Why, when I've read tons of articles on "how to find a job on the internet" "how to find recipes on the internet" that are basically lists of websites, I've rarely, if not never, read an article on "How to find information on the internet and what you need to know about it to do it efficiently".
Maybe because it takes more research than a few keywords in a search field. Or that once they're autonomous, the readers won't need such "assistance" from their newspapers/magazines anymore.


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Ahah et puis sur le site du zine en question, ils ont une section de news consacrées aux dernières élections (parce qu'en gros, même si ça fait presque 2 mois qu'on a voté, on n'a toujours pas de nouveau gouvernement).



Alors je sais pas, on fait en général référence aux élections par leur année. Et même si 10 et 06 sont dans des tons de gris légèrement différents, c'est difficile de pas croire qu'ils parlent des élections de l'an de grâce 1006, quand Saint Alphege est devenu archevêque de Canterbury et que l'holmgang a été déclaré illégal en Islande.

Je me souvenais même plus que c'était le 10 juin, moi...

In March, for the "open doors days" at school, I made this :



Basically, a Text-to-speech robotic voice is reading posts from the awful teens-oriented french blogging platform Skyblog.
The faces are from Youtube vloggers. I make them "talk" by using only the few video frames where they open the mouth, and mapping the opening of the mouth with the amplitude of the robot voice.
Creepiness ensues.




The same idea has then been used for my Big Final Work, mapping an eye blink from Fernand Léger's Ballet Méchanique with the amplitude of high, mid and low frequencies.



[videos from Marc & Yves, my teachers]

Some Max/MSP + Jitter experiments, for a school project

It's not meant to be "music videos", but rather a capture of a real time process


Protogroup - 8 bit heart

http://www.thinner.cc/releases.php?r=apl037




Arpanet - No Boundry Condition

mhh.. i'm not sure but it looks desynched...

The ultimate accessory to enhance your Wii Sport experience
You can also see the baseball bat and the golf club at brando.com.hk


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And the ultimate accessory to make your PORTABLE gaming more comfortable
You can buy it here, in Japanese (使えばわかります、その快適さが。?)
^{[via the Holy Kotaku]}


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Depressed and scared by the comments on Digg about one of his post, a blogger blocks Digg traffic
^{[via waxy.org]}


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XKDC's take on youtube trolls
^{[via the comments in the aforementioned tomayko post]}


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Sinon hier dans Au Quotidien, ils ont fait un reportage sur ces geeks de la simulation de vol qui jouent sur 3 écrans et payent des milles pour un joystick qui Ressemble Vraiment à un Vrai et Authentique Manche à Balai.

Ca m'a fait marrer, parce que pendant tout le reportage, ils se défendaient de "jouer".
Et puis les 3-4 heures quotidiennes qu'ils passent à piloter un avion de pixels était présenté comme la saine expression d'une passion. Jamais comme une sorte de maladie mentale et une déviance dangereuse, comme la télé le fait souvent en parlant de leurs congénères (souvent plus jeunes) qui se la pète moins ;)

Google is buying Youtube
http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/google_youtube.html

Egyptian Lover - Freak-a-holic (1986)


Yeah, it's SO 80s

It ain't really daily, is it ? :p

Episode 6 : Sosies

today, nothing rare, but still one of my favourite music video ever : Pulp's Bad Cover Version, a parody of charity supergroups
spot the celebrities, and find the 2 Jarvises (one jarvis, two jarvises, right ?)

Episode 5 : Return of the Tetris

[this one was stolen from Joystiq]

obviously from a catching videogame

Episode 3 : Tetris Comedy

it's in japanese obviously, but you don't really need to understand japanese - although i guess it's even better

Episode 2 : Limescale, Rust, Ground in Dirt and Scary Make-up

(not to mention the wig)



oh and Barry Scott has a blog, btw
http://www.barryscott.blogs.com/

it starts by "Hello Cyber Net!", which is almost as good as Teh Interweb

and unlike 99,99% of the blogs, the earliest entry is .. on the bottom of the page, not the top
go firgure...
but it's Barry Scott !

The Siamese Human Knot


I mean... dress-up + bondage à trois
how kinky, Batman !

blackmoth, you wanted it (me too actually), HERE IT IS

We can now post embedded videos in Livejournal posts !
from YouTube (my dear bandwidth-eater YouTube) and Photobucket (they host videos ? ah ?)

see the FAQ

and here is a test :


Great Bollywood video - thanks to chapatti

( some 80s goodness behind the cut )

Der Lauf Der Dinge
You remember the Honda Cog ad
it was verrry inspired by a short movie by artists Fischli&Weiss, that i had the luck to see a few years ago, but couldn't show

no i can, someone posted the 30 minutes long video on GoogleVideo

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3812507039888532441&pl=true
it's cheaper but longer, and has FIRE!

and if you like it, there are TONS of "Rube Goldberg" machines on YouTube - even one or two made in Half-Life 2
http://www.youtube.com/results?search=Rube+goldberg

Reuben Lucius Goldberg (July 4, 1883 – December 7, 1970) was a cofounder and first president of the National Cartoonists Society. He is one of the most famous cartoonists in history. He earned lasting fame for his "Rube Goldberg machines" — devices that are exceedingly complex and perform very simple tasks in a very indirect and convoluted way.

Eurodiscoohoohoo
They have a GREAT collection of video links, some that i've posted in the past
I especially love the Cheesy Eurodisco collection, staring German disco that sounds russian (twice), Danish Apache, disco dancing course, Devo fingers, accordian-playing skydivers wearing Russian military uniforms, Boney M

and Finnish Disco !

Google Video version

Finland is, btw, well known for its hard rock bands
They're even sending one of them to the Eurovision song contest 2006
The title says it all : Hard Rock Hallelujah

You can even see the finnish final here.. it's definitely... weird



Canterbury
WFMU also have 5 very interesting videos linked to the Canterbury scene
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2006/03/canterbury_vids.html
Robert Wyatt playing in 74 and 2003, Soft Machine live in 71, Caravan at the same show, and Kevin Ayers solo

those are refered on WMFU's blog, but come from http://musicforyoureyes.blogspot.com/, that has a HUGE LARGE collection of videos
including in the recent posts
Van Der Graaf Generator - Theme One (1972)
Van Der Graaf Generator - A Plague Of Lighthouse-Keepers (1972) (la vidéo que tu m'avais envoyée, tali !)
http://musicforyoureyes.blogspot.com/2006/04/turn-on-generator.html

and
Pink Floyd - Let There Be More Light (1968)
Pink Floyd - Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun (1968) (à Surprise Party sur l'ortf ou un truc du genre)
http://musicforyoureyes.blogspot.com/2006/03/pink-floyd-in-1968.html