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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 . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestSundays. One email. Zero ballads from white guys in beanies. -
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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 blogSome shirts are statements. This one is a verdict. -
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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 blogMade for people who left the room during Yellow. -
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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 blogLooks like Helvetica. Sounds like a closing argument. -
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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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Lusine - Two Dots video
Read more . . . →Here is the music video to this Lusine song that I just heard. I first heard it on Pete Tong as the Nic Faniculli remix (which I cannot find ANYWHERE btw) I can't wait to get my hands on this song, its so sexy, and to prove it here is a sexy trig-themed music video:
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Week 10: Propaganda Model of Content Creation
Read more . . . →Watch: Manufacturing Consent (Wintonick, 1992) Read: Seltzer, Trent. "RIAA, MPAA, and the Digital Piracy Issue: Comparing Public Relations Strategies and Effectiveness" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Sheraton New York, New York City, NY, . 2009-05-25 http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p14465_index.html Following with the previous weeks examination of corporate media and how their agendas affect the media we consume I wanted to look at a seminal Canadian documentary based on the propaganda model of media. The film does a good job of criticizing the media for being partisan and only interested in the agendas of an elite minority. The...
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