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First, play this video with your eyes closed. Then open your eyes and look at this guy. Is he what you pictured?

(Linked instead of embedded to better keep the suspense)

Check out my first attempt to make a song with Isle of Tune! Please vote it up!

(for comparison)

Download Eric’s picks over at antinomian.com.

jeff wanted to write a song today and asked for history topics. I pointed him to this issue of Hark! A Vagrant:

and he produced this delightful song.

update: io9 article about Rosalind and how she was basically cheated out of the recognition she deserved.

is a collaborative design + architecture project featured in japan a few years ago. there are some great photographs through that link, and I have embedded the site’s video here. it’s quite long, but here is the gist from takram’s site:

On a grid of equilateral triangles, we hung a total of 280 glass wind chimes from the ceiling at varying heights to represent the undulation of a wave. When you walk underneath the wind chime, not only does it ring, but its LED also alights like a firefly. The wind chimes nearer to the ceiling ring in higher tones, and those hung lower in lower tones together offering 10 degrees of tonal expression. And it feels as though you are walking inside a large interactive instrument. Additionally, the wind chimes are networked together, so that the sound and light spreads to adjacent wind chimes like ripples in the water. This network system was based on the idea of “behavior” we observe among certain animals in nature that form groups.

awesome.

via eric

the credibility of said the gramophone’s best songs of 2009 list is, for me, compromised, due to the exclusion of cursive’s ‘from the hips’. it is one of my favorite songs ever. here, cursive’s performance on letterman:

venture bros music by jg thirlwell

go buy this now. it is amazing. why don’t i own venture bros. on dvd?? i don’t know! gah! i love this show!

update: i listened to this in the car and, no joke, i felt like frakking secret agent. great driving music to get you pumped for your day!