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Wanderlust: Björk’s new video

April 1st, 2008 at 9:00 am » Comments (0)

Björk’s new video, Wanderlust. Magical as usual.

This is Björk’s video gallery, on which, oddly enough, Wanderlust isn’t available as I write.



Vuelvo al Sur

March 14th, 2008 at 10:09 pm » Comments (0)

In my rare idle moments of late, I’ve been musing on South America, a kind of daydream, really, probably because I was playing a little flamenco on my computer which progressed to a little tango and eventually to Vuelvo al Sur, with Astor Piazzolla & Roberto Goyeneche. You can look up the lyrics in Spanish [...]



The Best Political Video I’ve ever seen

February 5th, 2008 at 12:57 am » Comments (4)

Will.i.am and Jesse Dylan — and friends — go for Barack Obama
A pro-Barack Obama “Yes We Can” video making the Internet rounds offers an interesting pairing — Black Eyed Peas frontman Will.i.am and filmmaker Jesse Dylan (son of Bob), plus a raft of celebrities. The inspiration of the video — and its core theme — [...]



The Cultural Life

January 15th, 2008 at 12:18 am » Comments (0)

Between OS problems, service provider problems, wireless problems, paypal problems, domain problems, general sociability and the cultural life in central Dublin, there hasn’t been much time for my own work.
The technical problems and solutions will probably find their way into Ubuntu Learner when I get a minute, and as I don’t expect you [...]



Musicovery

October 7th, 2007 at 10:21 pm » Comments (0)

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I think this is a wonderful site. I’m not really given to looking for music on the web, but coming across this led to an hour or so of delight. It’s flash based, and a very good use of flash.
Some real gems of world music in there, just [...]



Doll’s Face

April 26th, 2007 at 11:53 pm » Comments (0)

Extraordinary video by Andy Huang, who’s a senior Fine Arts major and Animation minor at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
Doll’s Face is reminiscent of Björk’s All is Full of Love video, another amazing work, but is nevertheless distinctive and original.



Chris Singleton

April 15th, 2007 at 11:05 am » Comments (1)

Years ago, when times were simpler and we had time to regularly see multiple friends and have parties and go to them, two of the great hosts were Emer and David Singleton.
David had a great line in Beatles and Bob Dylan songs; he knew every damn one of them by heart and assumed I did [...]