Bluebird Way

Where do bluebirds fly? Here's a moving Charles Bukowski poem, Bluebird, brought to life. May you keep your bluebird alive.

Bluebird from Cameron McKague on Vimeo.

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I discovered a vault of beautiful skate videos by Juan Rayos recently and I'm really loving this girls just want to have fun perspective paired to awesome music (especially love the Cults opening track, "Go Outside"). The video makes me want to do just that and start a boarding crew! Who's down?

Longboard Girls Crew from Juan Rayos on Vimeo.

And ever wonder what skateboarding the streets of NYC look like? This first-hand view takes you on the ride.

Skateboarding Around Town from Zack McTee on Vimeo.

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I cannot wait to see this adaptation of Murakami's Norwegian Wood.

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I love these kaleidoscope visuals paired to Radiohead's "Feral". It's pretty perfect.

RADIOHEAD | FERAL | THE KING OF LIMBS from steven murashige on Vimeo.

Man About Town

http://www.manabouttown.tv/

Classy. I love everything about this.

Heart of Chambers

It's a Beach House kind of day. Here's an oldie but goodie. Definitely a favorite. Oh they make my heart happy.

Andrew Bird's one-man orchestra of the imagination

Bjork - Undo

It's not meant to be a struggle uphill


This is magical. Play and repeat :)

I am your mind.

Are you ready to have your mind officially blown?

Roy Ayers is pure soul. Wow.



This stunning cinematic arrangement featuring Flying Lotus makes me crave some classic Mahavishnu Orchestra.

Miguel Atwood-Ferguson Ensemble "Drips/Take Notice" feat Flying Lotus from Miguel Atwood-Ferguson on Vimeo.

Kokoro

"The fine things we shall write if we have talent enough, are within us, dimly, like the remembrance of a tune which charms though we cannot recall its outline, or hum it, nor even sketch its metrical form, say if there are pauses in it, or runs of rapid notes."

Marcel Proust, The Return to the Present

Kokoro (Sakamoto + Fennesz) from giuseppe la spada on Vimeo.

Oto (Sakamoto + Fennesz) from giuseppe la spada on Vimeo.

Trioon I by Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto from Victor Lara on Vimeo.

Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto - Berlin from Karl Kliem on Vimeo.

Never fall in love with potential

if you can't see with your own eyes



And a new August favorite, Cults - Oh My God:

Synesthisa Sensory Overload

What would the solar system sound like if planets were musical notes?

How do colors taste? How does food sound?

Synesthesia from Terri Timely on Vimeo.

Sing Sang Sung

Wildly colorful organic animation to Air's lovely "Sing Sang Sung". My kind of music video! Suddenly, I have an urge to watch Yellow Submarine again.

AIR MUSIC VIDEO SING SANG SUNG from MATHEMATIC SAS on Vimeo.

Joni Mitchell - California

Sublime.

Mixing Genius - Kutiman

This is inspiring and incredible! Unrelated yet interdependent music/youtubing weaved and edited by mix-master Kutiman. "I'm New" is my favorite track off his Thru You project, where what you see is what you hear.

It's business time.

This prick. Is he for real? I think he's dead serious. Miami Vice's business card "doesn't fit in a rolodex because it doesn't belong in a rolodex." His ego is apparently too big for it also (nevertheless pretty pretty hilarious):


My friend passed on a more legit source on the topic. Here's a fun article about making creative business cards.

I'll continue taking my advice from a real leader -- Mr. John Wooden. A few words of Coach Wooden's wisdom:

1. good values attract good people
2. love is the most powerful four-letter word
3. call yourself a teacher
4. emotion is your enemy
5. it takes 10 hands to make a basket
6. little things make big things happen
7. make each day your masterpiece
8. the carrot is mightier than a stick
9. make greatness attainable by all
10. seek significant change
11. don't look at the scoreboard
12. adversity is your asset













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I was also very moved by J.K. Rowling's brilliant speech to Harvard students last year, passed along recently by a friend. She humbly expresses the fringe benefits of failure and the importance of imagination. I highly recommend it!

Oh yea, it's Business Time. Conditions are perfect. With that said, goodnight world.

M. Ward - Chinese Translation

the truth is all there is

I love this song (the Truth/Handsome Boy Modeling School) and Roison is just amazing. She even busts J-Live's part here...


and I want her coat too!

Roland Kirk got soul! sweet and misty

Live in Montreux, 1972

Kind of Blue...and bliss.

Holy moly. My dream skateboards have arrived!! Check out these masterpiece decks by SF based skate company Western Edition. This Miles '59 quintet arrangement of decks celebrates the 50th Anniversary of Miles Davis' seminal work: Kind of Blue -- greatest album ever. period. I'd have to admire these on my walls. It'd be blasphemy to have 'em hit pavement.
Thank you, Miles!!!

via Vinyl Meltdown

Nature Rocks!

Remarkable MOOG sounds from seals! This video clip from Warner Herzog's "Encounters at the End of the World" is amazing.

Her Morning Elegance

(...because somehow I often find myself doing the same).

Sun in my mouth today

Bjork's hypnotizing "sun in my mouth" interpretation of e.e. cummings' "I will wade out". Both the song and poem are simply beautiful.

I will wade out
 till my thighs are steeped in burning flowers
I will take the sun into my mouth
and leap into the ripe air
   Alive
      with closed eyes
to dash against the darkness
    in the sleeping curves of my body
Shall enter fingers of smooth mastery
with chasteness of sea-girls
    Will I complete the mystery
    of my flesh
I will rise
    After a thousand years
lipping
flowers
  And set my teeth in the silver of the moon

-e.e. cummings