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I think this is hilarious.

Via Fintsomsnus and Crackunit.

Closely resembles Familjens video Det Snurrar I Min Skalle:

The first music video ever shot with a 360 degree panoramic lens. A tripped out journey into the track “My 1st Big Break”.

Natalie Portman manages to break boundaries and make her way into yet another musical genre.

Radiohead just released a new video for its song “House of Cards” from the album “In Rainbows”, which was created using high-speed rotating laser scanners.

http://code.google.com/creative/radiohead/

Artist James Houston was somewhat frustrated with Radiohead’s Nude Remix contest, as he put it, “Nude is in 6/8 timing, and 63bpm. Most music that’s played in clubs is around 120bpm and usually 4/4 timing.” So he went an entirely different route, drawing inspiration from the lyrics and alternate title, Big Ideas: Don’t Get Any. From that he recreated the song using some really weird shit, a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, an Epson LX-81 Dot Matrix Printer, a HP Scanjet 3c, and a Hard Drive array, turning these weird odds and ends into his instruments.

What he ended up creating is nothing short of genius. It’s not only the way the song came out sounding, but also in the way he shot the video above. Visually it reminds of the way that Scott Hansen colors his photos, like old sun-damaged film, as well as lots of steady close up shots of all the different pieces doing their part. Radiohead needs to get this guy on the phone and have him make a commercial or something for them, I mean the video has been viewed over 100,000 times in the last 2 days alone, that’s definitely saying something. Here’s hoping we see more from this brilliant guy.

Via Kitsune Noir

Update: Higher quality H.264 version: Radiohead - Nude Remix by James Houston.mov (Thanks Alex)

Music has always been a way for people to communicate and create an identity. From the traditional and world music of tribes and alike to the modern multitude of genres and subgenres, many closely associated with social groups.

In a modern perspective, I think we sometimes forget about this, almost instinctive, way people want to identify themselves using music (among other things). One company and service which do promote using music as part of an identifier is Last.fm. Basically, you give Last.fm information on when and what you are listening to, they then makes this information available in a online community (or more precisely; the whole world wide web) in a way that makes your profile as an individual clearer and better defined. Last.fm also helps finding other people in the world sharing the same taste in music, and probably also share more stuff on other levels.

May it be connecting people by means of music, interests, taste of fine arts, ethic groups, business branches, schools or sports the effect is the same: Increased definition of the individual. People tend to being drawn to social groups, especially in early ages (teenages).

Music becomes a more important method of definition as the modern society blurs the borders of traditional groups like ethicality and alike. People travel all over the world and business do the same thing, spreading across nations and continent boundaries.

I would like to see more focus towards social identification of the individual, in the music-biased services of today and tomorrow. Easy access to technologies like web services/APIs and feeds can further enable expansion of the individuals’ social presence.