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I hate when this happens
TOO MANY STEROIDS, AGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!Read more . . . →
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New Rubber Tiles could help with Soundproofing bass
Now Yang and his team have developed soundproof panels made of latex and plastic buttons, that will do the job (Applied Physics Letters, DOI: 10.1063/1.3299007). ... By stacking five membranes together, each tuned to a specific band, you can create a soundproof panel that works in the range from 70 to 550 hertz.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestSundays. One email. Zero ballads from white guys in beanies. -
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How to Drum on an MPC or similar pad controller
Read more . . . →How to do mpc pad finger drumming from Brandon Murphy on Vimeo.
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Florence + The Machine - You've Got the Love (Live at the Rivoli Ballroom)
Her voice is just ridiculous! Another great live video from Florence + The Machine Check out more Florence + The Machine Videos here.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogSome shirts are statements. This one is a verdict. -
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Week 12: Intertextuality and Hollywood
Read more . . . →Watch: Star Trek (Abrams, 2009) Read: Jenkins, Henry. "Star Trek rerun, reread, rewritten: Fan writing as textual poaching" Critical Studies in Mass Communication 5.2 (1988). 29 Nov. 2009 < http://www.informaworld.com/10.1080/15295038809366691 > My last screening returns to the land of fiction as I wanted a good example of the types of borrowing and rewriting that already exists heavily within Hollywood. Hopefully with the previous weeks exposure to liberal copyright politics the students will take a closer look at who has the right to control and change this culture. I went back to revisit our friend Henry Jenkins for another look at...
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Lady GaGa Plays the GaGatar, electro-modern style
We’re not quite sure just what the heck Lady GaGa is playing here, but it looks like she’s got a keytar slash bass slash MPC GaGatar in the Haus. You can see Lady Gaga’s keytar thing in action in her video for Telephone & Dance in the Dark, below, unless it gets yanked by the YouTube police.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogIf you wear this and someone hugs you, that's a real friend. -
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Guns Don't Kill People, Lazers Do
Given that back story, Guns Don’t Kill People…Lazers Do sounds pretty much exactly how you’d expect it to – complete with off the wall beats, uncontrollable lyrics, and awesometastic videos. ... My exposure to reggae is pretty much confined to people with the last name Marley, I don’t know the difference between dubstep and dancehall, and I used to like Sean Paul in high school.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogLooks like Helvetica. Sounds like a closing argument. -
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Week 11: Copyright, copyleft
Read more . . . →Watch: Good Copy, Bad Copy (Johnson, Christensen, Moltke 2007) Read: Pouwelse, J., P. Garbacki, D. Epema, and H. Sips. "Pirates and Samaritans: A decade of measurements on peer production and their implications for net neutrality and copyright." Telecommunications Policy 32 (December 2008): 701-712. My last non-fiction week screens a documentary that takes a close look at fan-created media, sampling and copyright issues around the world. The film interviews Girl Talk who was introduced during week 8 and also DJ Danger Mouse who is another “king” of copyright infringement. What I felt was really valuable in this film was the way...
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Florence + The Machine - Drumming Song
Her voice deviates quite a bit from the version on the album . None the less it's a solid performance and just goes to show how authentic the performance is.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogWhat if your laundry was also a personality? -
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Why waste your money at a studio? LCD Soundsystem has the solution
Read more . . . →LCD Soudsystem have rented a mansion rather than a studio to record their latest music. This is the future of music, really awesome idea, create space! clip 1 from lcd soundsystem on Vimeo.
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