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Yesterday I found this amazing video, music performed by Mark Ronson & The Business Intl. (watch it on Youtube). Visually it is a fresh cover of the Tron style mixed with 80′s and freestyle rap elements. The lyrics are also great, an abstract of todays mindset. Quote:
We’re never gonna, believe in, the stories, that you’re weavin’
We’re never gonna, believe in, the stories, that you’re weavin’
We’re never gonna, believe in, the stories, that you’re weavin’
We’re believin’ in the proof, we’re believin’ in the truth
We’re believin’ in each other, not you, you, you
Stories (you with the tall tales), how many stories (so many tall tales)
We climb the structure (you scale the ladder)
You build it higher (you make us madder)
We take our aim (so now we’re bearin’ off) You perch above your nest ( _ in your charms)
The stories in your head (it’s a crazy bald head)
That’s what got you dead
Bang Bang Bang!
Slideshare makes it easy to upload and share presentations, documents, videos for free. I would like to thank the team for making this possible. But there are some things making me mad, I don’t know how many time I did like they do in The Big Lebowski:
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A few days ago I saw the La Roux “Bulletproof” music video for the first time. I was surprised by the visual style, reminding me of the early Cindy Lauper (80′s pop rocker), the “Tron” movie (clean and simple) and design elements I have seen before in Daft Punk music videos (lens flare, colors). What really strucked me: This video has been published in May 2009 – a year ago!
Yesterday I saw the “On a mission” music video performed by Gabriella Cilmi. This track has been released in January 2010 and is much more a classic dance music video than La Roux. It is set into a space frontier plot and is a great reminiscence to the visual style from the late 80′s and the interstellar science fiction/fantasy art from the 50′s and 60′s.
While I was searching for videos which remind me to these styles, I stumbled upon the Tron 2 trailer. I think all these examples proof that our culture is heading into an new era of design: Post-Futurism. The “new thing” seems to be that technology which surrounds us today – like Smartphones, Tablets, Websites, Online Services, Mobile Internet – make visions from the past more tangible than ever. Which is great, because the imagery of classic futurism is shared with equal ideas across the world: Unity, freedom, new frontiers.
La Roux – Bulletproof (2009)
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One hour of amazing electro music introduced by the whispering voice of Robert Babicz himself:
Image from http://robertbabicz.de, all rights reserved by the respective owner
Robert Babicz – SYSTEMATIC SESSIONS MIX by robbabicz
47 comments and 55 favorites within five days – this mix is already famous! If you want to have the track, subscribe to Roberts Website and he sends you the download link within a few days.
Today @bahne tweeted a message, shouting a big ‘thank you’ for sharing the detailed LeWeb’09 participant list. The list includes names, countries, companies for most of the participants. Looking at this long table with 1550 (updated Dec 04, 2009: 2055) entries I was thrilled by the large number of companies and countries. But hey, this is just a table without emotion. That’s why I’ve created a visual each of the participants companies and countries. My incentive was to create the visuals using only free software tools.
“Welcome to the psychiatric hotline.”
If you are obsessive compulsive, please press one repeatedly.
If you are co-dependant, please ask someone to press 2.
If you have multiple personalities, please press 3, 4, 5, and 6.
If you are paranoid/delusional, we know who you are, what you want, just stay on the line so that we can trace your call.
If you are a schizophrenic, listen carefully, and a little voice will tell you which number to press.
If you are manic depressive, it doesn’t matter which number you press…no one will answer anyways.
Interesting Twitter URLs, collected 01.18.09
@Jimconnolly
Love tech? http://thetechnewsblog.com
@DaivRawks
Reading: Things to do when Twitter is down. http://bit.ly/FEpN
@DaivRawks
Reading: 7 Tips For Using Twitter to Grow Your Business http://is.gd/gkia
@upicks
10 Really Cool Google Chrome Hacks – Anyone use Chrome? You might find some of these tips useful – http://bit.ly/WHVs
@upicks
Amazing 3D Sidewalk Art – Creative and cool, seen this before? Well here’s some new additions from the same artist – http://bit.ly/MHHs
@Bloggeries
11 Reasons You Ca’t Ignore SM in 09 – http://tinyurl.com/7ductd
@chrisbrogan
Imagine these two teaching you about the Internet? – http://is.gd/glbD
@upicks
Multiple Shots of Plane Landing in Hudson River: Some live video footage you might not have seen yet of the crash http://bit.ly/p1F0
@upicks
8 Sites for Free Presets for Adobe Lighroom’s Presets: I have yet to try them myself, download for later use – http://bit.ly/sePA
@upicks
21 Must Have Web Apps for Designers and Developers – Very helpful resource esp. if you are traveling and designing – http://bit.ly/ugti
@gina713
Seen Magpie yet? You can run your own ads in other people’s timelines. Now, that’s a neat idea! http://be-a-magpie.com/7lyjte
@upicks
My Top 10 Social Action Platforms of 2008: I think about covers it. What do you think? http://tinyurl.com/6ulqba
@podpimp
Belkin faked positive Amazon reviews http://is.gd/gfpa
@stejules
7 Ways to Be Worth Following on Twitter http://bit.ly/3E3M Be Interesting, Be Informative, Be Interactive, Be Promotional, Be Personal…
CERN: The Large Hadron rap!
Two in one: Viral video and visual explanation. Well done!
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