From the box of “things you never thought existed”, comes this videoclip of Soviet jazz group “Orera“. Attention to detail in those times was clearly focused on what matters (musical quality) and not where it doesn’t (actual video/sound syncing).

[Via Dark Roasted Blend]

[Thanks Seba]

Correct me if I’m wrong but I think this is the newest style of dancing to electronic dance music (house, minimal, techno, electro, whatever) and if you watch the videos in my previous post (Old dance new music) you’re going to notice how today’s packed Clubs have influenced the way we are (not) able to move around: Tektonic seldom involves crazy feet and leg moves (especially when compared to how much you move your top half of the body) and all the action takes place in your own little spot in the dancefloor. I’ve been going out at night only in a few holidays for the last 3 years and I danced in a basic and clumsy kind of Tektonic. I can’t wait for my next holidays.

[Via PopMK]

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The Communist Ghetto LOL!

[Via Neatorama]

And 1920’s Charelston to the beat of Around The World:

They win in style points, danger points and fake points:

[Via Neatorama]

La frustración máxima.

[Via Innerpendejo]

[Via Motorpasion]

Check out the dozens of creative “movie production company logos” that make the words of the lyrics in an continuous energetic animation. It’s like the movie is never going to start and you’re fine with that.

PS: Para residentes en España, sólo una palabra: “Mooooovie Reecord”

[Via Cuchara Sonica]

Flowing Danger
Nuclear Invincibility
Stoic Menace

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And I add “so far” because evidently we are waaay far from reaching anything that could be labelled as “definitive” regarding UFO’s”. THIS is the link to the “Out of the Blue” documentary on Stage6, although there is a slight disconnect from this file and the documentary’s Wikipedia and Official page, where the movie’s publication year is shown to be 2002 (the website doesn’t say this textually but they are selling a “5 year anniversary edition”) and its running time 90 minutes. The documentary available on Stage 6 runs for 113 minutes and shows and narrates documents and events happened in the last few years up to 2007 (that, or I am mixing memories of documentaries). Perhaps this is the 5 year anniversary edition, I don’t know, but in any case, best for us; more material, more proof… more hope?

One of the “additions”, I guess, is the mention and extensive summary of The Disclosure Project (non-profit organization with the intention of de-classifying and disclosing all information on UFO’s) [wiki] National Press Conference that “hosted over 20 witnesses, most of them ex-military, who provided testimonies, some of them about the cover-up of the UFO issue. You can actually watch the full conference in Google Video (2 hours). I would however recommend watching Out of the Blue first.

Another document addressed in the movie and worth commenting on outside is The Cometa Report, roughly a French version of The Disclosure Project [wiki] [more at Ufoevidence.org with links to the complete translated report in PDF].

Deep Impact on rails!

Via Neatorama

Desde que estoy en San Francisco no veo ni la tele de aquí ni la de allí, y eso implica perderme Buenafuente. Pero me entero gracias a ¡Vaya Tele! que una de las novedades ésta temporada es un tal Berto (sobrino de Andreu, dicen), del que acabo de ver tres o cuatro videos a carcajada suelta, liderados por éste genial programa de Buenafuente comprimido en 4 minutos:

“Hola ¿sabes quien soy? Hmm pues no ni puta idea adiós” XDDD

Amazingly accurate Simpsons + 300 mashup.

[Via Neatorama]

People send postcards with their secrets to the website, secrets are shared with the world.

I believe this and Facebook’s honestly-named Honesty Box application, which allows the sending of annonymous private messages, are solid steps forward for open public sincerity. How can you possibly not find that exciting!

[Via Legal Alien]

Slightly visually confusing (Rand’s famous logos have been corrupted animated in it), this 4-minute video’s best value is actually the audio of himself talking about design, saying things like:

“Order, variety, contrast, symmetry, tension, balance, scale, texture, space, shape, light, shade and color. This is the language of form.”

“Don’t try to be original, try to be good.”

[Via Boingboing]

Jose Gonzalez (famous for the original Sony Bravia commercial song “Heartbeats”) has recorded a version of Massive Attacks “Teardrop“:

[Via Desaparezca]

OMG it’s Street Fighter 4 and it looks like it deserves its name!

[Thanks Ray]

It doesn’t get much more cosmopolitan than an Asturian girl originally from Argentina, who sings “Tonadas” (the traditional songs from Asturias, northern Spain) along country, jazz, blues or even tango tunes.

These videos I found in Youtube aren’t the best examples of the mixture, so go to her website Anabelsantiago.com and get the songs in the download section.

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A skeptical Chris Harris from Autocar Magazine comes to certain conclusions after testing and going flat out in a Bugatti Veyron. Unbelievable speedometer live action included.

I have been looking for a video or article that gets the essential point about the Veyron across shortly and effectively. The fact that, for several reasons, it is the most remarkable engineering achievement in the auto industry. In the literal sense of the superlative. What’s most incredible is how all the test drivers are left with a feeling of dissapointment by realizing that they are never going to feel anything like it again. As Jeremy Clarkson put it last year “it’s not only the best automobile ever built in history, it is also the best car we will ever see in our lifetimes”.

Spanish-built Tecnilinea Pyramid Liner is a series of clever textured pads that allow you to draw either freehand lines or perfectly square straight lines… freehand. These templates have a small grid of 0.5 milimeter spaced lines through which you run your pen or pencil to make technical drawing almost fun, and certainly a lot faster. I can see potential for more advanced patterns through changing surfaces: perspectives, alignments… physical CAD!

[Via Compradiccion]

And violins. I will just quote a Youtube commenter:

la cremme de la cremme
la puta crema
la fucking shit
for real

They are French and they’re called Birdy Nam Nam.

[Thanks TJ]

Halo theme by college teen virtuoso band Corporeal (of 3 guys playing 1 guitar fame) and a few other Halo 3 trailers that make you wish you were had the time to be addicted to videogames.

You can count videogame franchises that have set a decade-lasting standard in their categories with a hand and a half, and while I’m no fan of First Person Shooters, watching the following trailers makes me proudly remember Halo is one of them — I actually played multiplayer Halo 2 for months.

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Compillation of the most stunning gymnastics from the —long gone— era of 10.0 scores.

[Via Inner]

I’m tempted to start a new category, Technohuman, for innovative devices that augment our senses or skills in order to produce Superhuman results (really, the Hang Drum should be one of them). Monome, a year-old open source interface system with a grid of highly customizable button-LEDs, is one of them, and the most beautiful application is music.

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To me developments in the dance music industry are almost as interesting to follow as as climate change or cars. Fedde Le Grande’s latest tune isn’t a breakthrough, but it does sound like a bit of fresh air. The singing girl with the friendly face, some “Ida Corr“.

[Via BBC Radio 1 Chart Blog]

Antes de “An Inconvenient Truth” y su oposición The Great Global Warming Swindle (tampoco cierto del todo), estaba el oscurecimiento global [wiki], un fenómeno relativamente desconocido que cambiará la perspectiva sobre las causas del cambio climático. Aquí está EL documental:

Hay decenas de teorías sobre el cambio climático basadas en modelos que, por definición, se crean en la búsqueda de un patrón en particular, desde un interés en particular. Éste documental de BBC Horizon de 2005, sin embargo, parece más realista, honesto y neutral sobre un problema —la reducción de la cantidad de luz solar que llega a la superficie de la Tierra— que es tan verdad como es sentido común, y cuya solución (la reducción de la contaminación que ya se está llevando a cabo globalmente), paradójicamente contribuye al calentamiento global. Sí, el oscurecimiento global enfría la Tierra y contrarresta el calentamiento global, de ahí la creciente inestabilidad del clima causada por ambas fuerzas luchando entre sí. Aunque está brillantemente presentado, narrado y respaldado, cuidado con a quién se lo pasáis, que puede dar cierto miedo.

ACTUALIZADO: A continuación, y a la espera de su disponibilidad íntegra, los primeros 12 minutos del documental, en español: (more…)

Starting with a really uplifting, almost new-era, indefinitely playable song, it’s stunning that the official video lives up to it and even improves it, mainly thanks to some amazing but simple choreography. Meanwhile, the live version (below, reason for this post)… Ok I was supposed to go to bed 2 hours ago, as my ability to write at the moment shows Just watch at least one, I promise you won’t regret it.

From the upcoming documentary about The Young @ Heat Chorus. “At an age when most people are either dead or living out their last days in retirement homes, these men and women are up on stage singing their hearts out about the big taboos surrounding old age: about love and sex, loss of youth, loneliness and death. In their mouths, familiar lyrics take on whole new meanings.”

[Via The Documentary Blog]

It took me a few moments to come up with the most accurate description for this guy’s work. Visible dreams: or a unique skill to create visuals that seem to belong in places like outer space, the subconscious, the nanoworld, etc.

His latest creation, “Durian“, is also a success at syncronizing music with abstract animations that almost “show” the music:

[Via Neatorama]

De título original “The Green Machine”, éste documental de Odisea (2006) expone ejemplos privados y públicos, empresariales y nacionales, relacionados con energías renovables, construcción ecológica, sostenibilidad, etc. Ésta parte en concreto trata de cómo Chicago es una de las ciudades con mejores intenciones al respecto. Un parque verde en el tejado de cada rascacielos es uno de sus objetivo, y el ayuntamiento ya tiene uno.

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