Check out this video from Chad Pugh. He spent 40 hours in Illustrator and took a screenshot every 5 seconds while creating this amazing drawing he calls "Science Machine."
Wanna be hip and check out the new cool website to go to? Wanna get a taste of the music I like? Well now you can do both. Muxtape is a cool new way to make an MP3 mixtape and share it with the world.
I uploaded 12 songs (the max) and organized them to go from rockin’ to chill music. It’s a lot of my favorite artists, and I hope you find something new you like. It’s almost an hour long, so check it out, play it while you work or something.
When a video is uploaded to YouTube, the default view is a 320x240 video stretched to fit in a 640x480 player with a low audio bitrate. For some newer videos, youtube also retains a full 640x480 copy of the video with higher quality audio. Sometimes you will be allowed to see a button that allows you to watch the higher quality videos, but it’s not on every video.
I recently discovered that by adding &fmt=18 to the end of the URL, you can view the higher quality video for those that have it! Check out the screenshot comparison below from the Starcraft 2 trailer:
I found a new artist today, and he's got some great music. Jack Conte classifies his music as Indie / Alternative / Electroacoustic, and he's a great songwriter as well. He also has done a cover of a Radiohead song, which is my favorite band and what got me interested in him in the first place. Visit his myspace page, and listen to his music. If you liek it, please consider buying his album and supporting him! It's less than $4 on iTunes and Amazon, which is less than what I paid for dinner last night!
Nine Inch Nails dumped their record label late last year, and now they are allowed to to basically whatever they want with their music. Today they decided to pull a move similar to what Radiohead did with their latest album In Rainbows. NIN has released a 4 volume instrumental album entitled Ghosts I - IV, which features a total of 36 tracks for just $5 to download in almost any format you want (MP3, FLAC, and Apple Lossless).
If you aren't sure yet, you can download the first volume for free on Bittorrent - the band them selves put it up on The Pirate Bay. I paid my $5 and I'm downloading the 600MB Apple Lossless files right now, and I haven't even heard a full song yet. More than anything, i support what this band is doing. They are once again proving to the record industry that they are no longer needed to sustain music sales or to keep customers happy with their product. If you make good music, fans will come.
If you want to buy this album, head over to ghosts.nin.com or Amazon.com and spend that $5. There's also some really nice box sets available for order, where they basically give you everything...and I mean everything, like a Blu-Ray disk with HD audio(24bit), all the multitrack files so you can remix the album, etc.
After spending a weekend at a southern gospel music conference, it’s time to listen to something else. Now I really don’t normally like techno/electronic music, but Daft Punk does it so well you can’t hate it. I’ve been a fan of theirs for a while now and I don’t listen to them as often as I probably should, but recently I found they had a new album, Alive 2007.
This is a live album where they perform remixes, which is pretty bold since your fan already love your music and you re-work it for them in a live venue for the first time. But they’re all great songs, I’ve been listening to this album a lot this past week. I love to crank up the bass on this album because it’s so powerful (my neighbor’s dog seems to hate it though).
How can you not love music from guys that dress as freaking robots? Here’s a video form the Alive 2007 tour.
I just found out about Bat for Lashes tonight via the video below, and I think they’re great. I just got the whole album Fur and Gold and so far it’s great, it’s some very slow and sometimes haunting trance-like music. I think I’ve really begun to like a lot of indie female-led bands, I have a quite a few in my music library and I don’t think I noticed that until just now.
Here’s the video for What’s a Girl to do?, it’s very strange and reminiscent of Donnie Darko, but a really well put together video, and from what I hear it’s what most people think is her best song.
Wanna be hip and check out the new cool website to go to? Wanna get a taste of the music I like? Well now you can do both. 
