I recently found this out thanks to Alan Pope on google plus. He simply said “I love this video. All of it. Every time I watch it.” – so I had to watch it. And ya know what, I do too. The video is so awesome, so intricate, the dancing is great but the actual video editing and the time and effort put into this is the most awesome bit about it. The song as well, is just fascinating. Madeon managed to mix this completely live, with clips from 39 different songs. See how many you can tell, and then go onto his youtube page and see if you were right, and what ones you missed. (I got 4…)
Anyways, enough prefab…lets get on with the awesome video.
As many of you who pay attention to Google I/O will know, Google announced the first stable chrome OS builds, and what they are calling “chromebooks”. This is their first video for the so called laptops, and I thought it was quite amusing. Have a watch
Ok, maybe a bit of a sensationalist title, but I’ll be honest, this is really weird and creepy. You know that playstation phone that Sony have been so bad at keeping secret? Well, turns out it is official now, and this is the ad for it. With the tagline “Android is ready to play”.
Welcome to the beginning of the end. This is the week where I do all of my random blog posts about predictions and rubbish like that. So, feel free to ignore me for the next 5 days. However, this is the first of my posts about the year. The final Video of the Week, for the year. And man alive, do I have a good one for you. As the terrible cliche says, this is like marmite:
Surprise! This is a surprise Video of the Week (it is no ordinary one). It doesn’t have that in the title, that should be your clue! Your second clue should be the song reference in the title…10 points to anyone who has guessed it already. Don’t look down!! Thats cheating. Ach well, noone gets points because you have probably already looked down.
Anyway, lets talk a little about the XFactor before I give you the video (this is what makes it special). Many of you will remember the RATM campaign last year, to take XFactor off the top of the charts. I remember when I was younger, the Christmas number1 was a great time of unknown. Who would become the Christmas number1? Nowadays, we know who it will be the week beforehand, when the xfactor winner is announced. This is a horrible way for the Christmas no1 to have turned out to be. Yet, the campaign last year did nothing to help it. Still, there are no real challengers to the xfactor winner (whoever that might be, I really don’t care, and please don’t tell me…)
So, this is why I am supporting the campaign to get Surfin’ Bird by the Trashmen to Christmas number 1, by buying the single next week (anytime starting 00:00 tonight, until 23:59 next Saturday).
It is, in my opinion, an equally apt song to have for this campaign as Rage Against the Machine’s was last year. The Trashmen revolutionised the music industry in just a few short minutes. It did, however, never reach its true potential in the charts, only reaching number 5 in the UK, and number 4 in the US. It has spawned several cover songs, and a huge following of young people since its inclusion in the seventh season of Family Guy.
It is one of those songs that changed history, and it’ll hopefully do it again.
RATM got 500,000 downloads last year, which made it to number 1. The Facebook group for this campaign has over 600,000 followers so far. If everyone on that page buys it, it is a sinch. But you too can help.
And just incase you aren’t sure, you can also donate to charity through this. Money from this campaign is going towards primarily the RSPB, but also to the British Heart Foundation, and the Pink Ribbon Foundation. But don’t let this be a 1 off charity thing, let it stir you to give to charities regularly. Charities do great work, and any charity that supports this deserves some money…
Whats that you say? You want the video? Ok…enjoy members of RSPB dancing to this fantastic song!
This is possibly one of the coolest 8-bit based songs I’ve heard in a while, and it even has a really cool video to go with it. All I can say is, enjoy!
Some of you may know what Blender is. It is an open source 3d modelling application which is starting to be used by professional film creators. The Blender foundation have created a film called Big Buck Bunny and a game called Yo Frankie!. They are both completely open creations. You can download all of the character models, and the whole film in its origional film for free, and change it how you like it. Now, however, they are creating their new film, and here is the trailer for it…
Just had a listen to this album today, it is TobyMac’s new album, called Tonght. And this is my favourite song from it. It is also a very cool video, so I thought this could be my video of the week, and I’d let you all see it. Enjoy.
Sorry about my lack of blogging recently, I’ve been doing lots of work for Uni, and will get back to blogging asap with a review of a certain piece of software. I will keep you in suspense as to what it is, but it is still in beta, and the linux version has only very recently been announced. It is closed source, but it is a very exciting piece of software. Anyway, on with this post…
Some of you may know newsboys. They are a huge Christian Rock band origionally from Australia but in America. And recently they got a new lead singer. This is their first single from the upcoming album in July of this year. This is so different to their new stuff, it is so exciting. The new singer, Michael, is actually one of the singers from DC Talk (an 80s christian hip-hop band), and this just seems fantastic. Anyway, enjoy
