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RADIOHEAD USES NO VIDEO IN THEIR "VIDEO" 07/16/08 11:49am
Radiohead just released a video for the track "House of Cards" from their latest album In Rainbows. What sets this video apart? No camera was used in its creation. Instead, Radiohead members teamed up with Google to use advanced technology like Geometric Informatics and Velodyne LIDAR.
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Here’s what Google had to say about it: "Geometric Informatics scanning systems produce structured light to capture 3D images at close proximity, while a Velodyne Lidar system that uses multiple lasers is used to capture large environments such as landscapes. In this video, 64 lasers rotating and shooting in a 360 degree radius 900 times per minute produced all the exterior scenes."
Okay, that makes a little more sense.
The outcome is spectacular. A house of cards is something fragile, hard to build and falls easily. With its extremely foreign digital appearance, this style of video lends a similar feeling. The technology used to create the "video" was the perfect choice of media for the song.
The "House of Cards" video is just one more example of Radiohead’s everlasting drive to enter new frontiers. Front man Thom Yorke said: "I always like the idea of using technology in a way that it wasn't meant to be used, the struggle to get your head round what you can do with it. I liked the idea of making a video of human beings and real life and time without using any cameras, just lasers, so there are just mathematical points - and how strangely emotional it ended up being."| Flag as Inappropriate | 1 comment -
THE WHO CROSSES A GENERATION 07/15/08 6:21pm
This past Saturday, July 12, Pearl Jam, Foo Fighters, The Flaming Lips, Tenacious D, Incubus, and various LA glitterati came together to honor The Who at VH1’s third annual Rock Honors. The two-hour show was taped at UCLA’s Pauley Pavilion and will air next Thursday on VH1.
The concert began with taped testimonials from Sting, Mick Jones (from the Clash), Slash, and Coldplay. The younger generation of rock joined forces, performing brief sets of The Who covers. Reviving The Who tradition of smashing instruments, Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder and Mike McCready threw a mic into the audience and a guitar in the air, respectively.
Roger Daltrey (64 years old) took the stage with former bandmate Pete Townshend (63 years old) for the closing performance. The 40-minute stirring set included “The Seeker,” “Who Are You?” “My Generation,” and “Teenage Wasteland.” Forty-four years and a whole lot of sex, drugs, and rock and roll later, Daltrey and Townshend, glowing in their old age, become poetically emblematic of rock’s golden era shepherding a new sonic generation.
The band’s influences proved to be longer living than some band members. The original guitarist John Entwistle died of a drug-induced heart attack in 2002, while drummer god Keith Moon died in drug overdose in 1978. Moon was notorious for his self-destructive lifestyle, and was notably the first to play drums as the lead instrument. Last Saturday, The Beatles gem Ringo Starr stood in for Moon.
“I miss old friends, but they are with me,” Daltry told AP Television News. “When we start playing our music, John (Entwistle) and Keith (Moon) echo with us all the time, so it’s kind of like they never left.”| Flag as Inappropriate | 0 comments -
SNOOP WALKS THE LINE BEHIND CASH 07/15/08 6:04pm
“Let’s face it. It’s Johnny cash. I mean… It’s Johnny Cash. It’s all you have to say.”
-- Mocean Worker, a member of the new Johnny Cash Remixed Project.
There are some icons too sacred to remix, remash, rehash. Johnny Cash is set rather high upon that golden pedestal. However, there is always the subversive power of iconoclasts and dogs. Not just any old dogs, but S-N-double O- P.
Due out October 14 on Compadre Records/Music World Music is Johnny Cash Remixed, with Snoop Dogg’s version of “I Walk the Line” as the centerpiece. The remix album also features Teddy Riley, DJ Quik, and Pete Rock tackling “Folsom Prison Blues”.
Question: What does a west coast g-funk rapper have in common with the late freight train-inspired country crooner? Surprisingly, quite a lot. Both won Grammy’s. Both are outlaws with an affinity for prisons and drugs. And when it comes down to it: both walk the line.
Snoop has had a long-time affair with country music. He sang the duet “My Medicine” with Willie Nelson, and dedicated the record to “[his] main man Johnny Cash – a real American gangsta.”
“If you take your time to listen to it, country music is very similar to rap,” Snoop told Billboard. “Johnny Cash is the one who stood out to me. I love his style, his swag, the songs he made.”
Cash’s son, John Carter Cash, gladly approved the remix project. “This is what my father was about: staying true to tradition while creating groundbreaking new music.”
Previews of the project can be seen here.| Flag as Inappropriate | 0 comments
