World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale from World Science Festival.

Logan Hill’s New Identity System from logan hill on Vimeo.

My good friend, Logan Hill is one of those guys you just know is going to do well as an artist. I’ve always enjoyed his work, especially over the last few years, but this video nears the top of my list of favorite work to date. Keep tabs on him.

From the video’s description:

This video is part of Logan Hill’s MFA thesis exhibition. The show was called Identity Crisis.

The video takes the form of an infomercial to express the absurdity of identity theft and the products used to protect it. All of the products in the video are artworks that were made during Logan’s MFA.

I got to see this video along with all the other work in his thesis exhibition a few months back. The whole thing was fantastic.

Best line: “Is it green?”

“Yes.”

And no, this blog’s not dead yet. I’ve just been incredibly busy. That’s changing pretty soon. BBS.

Logan Hill: Identity Crisis

I wasn’t actually much of an Atari kid. We got Intellivision instead, which was supposed to be “intelligent television”, whatever that means. My favorite games were Burger Time and Snafu. There were also a handful in our collection that I never figured out, including Blackjack, if my memory serves me correctly.

I’ve often wondered where that old Intellivision ended up. I wanna’ say I got my hands on one YEARS ago (probably 10-15), and it was kind of surreal. But as far as I know, it’s long gone. What a great surprise it would be to find it in my mom’s attic when they move in a few months.

This is a great one from my childhood. I can still hear Jordan Grey reciting the lines from this.

Ah Internets. I love you.

Hit full screen, throw on some headphones, and watch this thing from beginning to end. Unbelievable driving. And unless I’m mistaken, red light means stop, right? Via Horses Think:

[This] film [was] made by Claude Lelouch in 1976 and filmed in a single 9 minute take. “Paris At Dawn On Crack”

I made this video awhile back and never did anything with it. It’s stupid, so don’t watch it. (There’s a better quality version on Vimeo.)

I always have to credit Logan for introducing me to this a few years ago. Be prepared to have this stuck in your head for awhile. Thanks, Logan. Thogan.

Thanks to my friend Logan, I just found out about the kind of story I would’ve loved to see when I lived in Austin.

I like how they talk about how the hacking of the signs is a very serious matter. No, it isn’t.

My personal favorite of the minute: Turbo Button

UPDATE: Apparently they took the clip off the E! web site, but it can now be found on YouTube (though it can’t be embedded on this site).

I really wish there was a better (audio quality) recording on YouTube. Unfortunately, they’re all live performances recorded on people’s crappy cameras and camera phones. Boo.

Update: Ah, there we go… audio for ya’.

I present to you the 1999 Honor Band Taping Concert of the Little Cypress-Mauriceville High School Wind Ensemble, Nelson Nolden, conductor (recorded at the LC-M HS Auditorium, May 5, 1999)

Music:

1. La Alhambra – Llano
2. Overture to Candide – Leonard Bernstein
3. Sketches on a Tudor Psalm – Fisher Tull

On May 3rd 2008, artists Robin Hewlett and Ben Kinsley invited the Google Inc. Street View team and residents of Pittsburgh’s Northside to collaborate on a series of tableaux along Sampsonia Way. Neighbors, and other participants from around the city, staged scenes ranging from a parade and a marathon, to a garage band practice, a seventeenth century sword fight, a heroic rescue and much more…

Originally my friend Jay sent me one of the scenes directly in GoogleMaps, only to realize that it was staged later. It’s a great project, even if it did kinda’ ruin the hilarity of the scene.