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YouTube remixed by Kutiman

by Andy Polaine on March 20, 2009

in General

There have been a whole load of YouTube musical mash-ups, including the YouTube Orchestra, but this is one of the better ones I’ve seen that’s a bit more scratch video in its style.

Kudos to Kutiman for re-mixing the YouTube page on his site, which is where I recommend you watch them. Somehow it adds to the whole mashed up experience.

(Thanks to Seb for that one).

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BeatBearings and the Wisdom of the Tube

by Andy Polaine on January 17, 2008

in Uncategorized

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This BeatBearing project on YouTube by Peter Bennett is one of those physical interaction ideas that sounded great on paper, but is a bit useless in the flesh.

It’s a “tangible sequencer” but because it has so few slots, the actual rhythms you can produce are pretty clunky early 80s action (which is now old skool twice over – he’ll have to wait for the third 80s revival).

I’m sure it was a great exercise to build it, but it’s kind of what happens when you do a PhD and lose the joy and play. I’d prefer a Tenori-On personally.

Sometimes you have to love the Wisdom of YouTube, This comment caught my eye:

bl4h1: we just spent hundreds of years evolving away from this sort of thing. whats next actual instruments?

(Link via Matt at Kiel’s Foundlings)

[tags]interaction, sound, instruments, youtube, tangible[/tags]

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Evolution of Dance vs. Titanic

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I’ve just been chatting with my online students in Australia about emerging media and it led me to do some quick sums on the merits of Titanic, the biggest grossing movie of all time, and Evolution of Dance, the most popular video on YouTube ever. So, Judson Laipply’s frankly rubbish Evolution of Dance comes in [...]

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Another Antirom RGB performance

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I was clearing out some old CDs and found a Videobrasil XII one with this Antirom RGB performace on it. I think Gisela may have shot the footage as there are also some interviews with us at the Antirom office (looking very young). But I’m not sure where this performance was and have no doubt [...]

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Reactable cacophony

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Evidently Reactable has been around for a couple of years, but I hadn’t heard about it until one of my ex-students, Gabi, sent me the link. Undoubtedly Reactable is a really great implementation of a tangible interface and it is also plugging into the whole multi-touch mania (although it’s a completely different system – it [...]

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YouTube meets Azureus, Zudeo is born

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So the folks behind the popular BitTorrent client, Azureus have launched a service which Wired has described as a YouTube for HD video. It’s called Zudeo and leverages BitTorrent’s ability to spread the download (and bandwidth) via peer-to-peer swarms. The Zudeo client is basically Azureus with some nicer front end bits pulled in, but Advanced [...]

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Top Hat and a Tail

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So of course Andrew Shoben of Greyworld couldn’t let me name-check Antirom on YouTube without sending me one of his own. This one of him wearing a top hat and tails and a tail. A lot of effort for a pun, but highly amusing.

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Playful Interactivity

October 12, 2006

I have just read great paper called Playful Interactivity by Amnon Dekel et al. from The Hebrew University Jerusalem and The Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem.

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MTV vs YouTube

September 14, 2006

I’ve been catching up with my blog reading and thought Todd Dominey’s point about MTV trailing YouTube was worth a re-blog as it hooks into what I wrote previously about Apple’s iTV news. Todd’s full post has this to say… (ooh, what a cliff hanger for you e-mail subscribers…)

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