Admit it: you want it!
Not calamari! The iPhone! 🙂 (Ok…some calamari would be good , too.)
I know I know, it’s still a computer and it will hang up and crash and all that stuff….anyway….see for yourself.
Category: youtube
You’ve got a face with a view
I have a tremendous personal fondness for this song in this movie. But it is a great video nonetheless. From the great Jonathan Demme / Talking Heads film, Stop Making Sense, here is
The Talking Heads with This Must Be the Place (Naïve Melody) Live
Hang in there for the wonderfully dance part with David Byrne and the lamp. I have a lamp like this, and I think of him whenever I see it.
Code Monkey AND WoW
There is almost a genre of small films based around World of Warcraft! LOL. This was shown at a conference I attended recently. It is a song that will have appeal to software developers everywhere:
On the artifice of beauty
Two striking videos on this subject matter, including the famous Dove Evolution ad. The first one, Doll Face, is longer, but it is worth watching.
Women in Art
This video is an astounding compilation of women represented in famous paintings. Each image transmogrifies into the next in a seamless way as if to suggest that all of western painting is a continuous work. You have to see it.
One thing that it made me think of is the actual women who model for the painters, as opposed to the painters and the paintings themselves. The ability of it to do this is remarkable.
One more reason why YouTube is great.
Ella or the wonders of YouTube
Now that American Idol is over 😉 perhaps I can interest you in Ella singing “Stomping at the Savoy”, in the UK in 1961. (With Oscar Peterson on piano!!) My favourite version is her singing it with Louis, but this version is a scorcher.
In case you forget…a video on how to use a telephone
This video is amazing. Made 80 years ago, it is meant for people who have never used the telephone before. While it is fun to watch in itself — I love the MMMMMs coming out of the woman’s head! — it also reminds us how quickly we adapt and absorb new technology.
YouTube – How to Use the Dial Telephone (PT&T/AT&T, 1927)
Giovanni Sollima – Sogno ad Occhi Aperti (Daydream) PART 1
Why is YouTube great? Here’s one reason, this beautiful and fascinating video of a wonderful cello piece: Giovanni Sollima – Sogno ad Occhi Aperti (Daydream) PART 1
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