Reformat the Planet

For one week only Pitchfork Media is showing the documentary Reformat the Planet about the burgeoning Chiptune scene. Don't know what that is? Here's the trailer.



Check out the entire film here. It's pretty amazing. Remember, it'll only be available for a week, so watch it while you can.

Radiohead - House of Cards

So if you haven't heard yet, Radiohead made a music video for "House of Cards" without the use of traditional video, film, or digital cameras. No, they used lasers. That's right, lasers. It doesn't really get more Radiohead than that, especially if you've seen any pictures from their current U.S. tour.

Here's a brief article on the subject courtesy of Pitchfork. And here's the actual video.



And here's a video on the making of that video.



And here's a page at Google explaining how you can download this technology yourself and upload your own videos to Youtube.

And just for some fun with ironic juxtapositions, here's this. Really, Axl? I mean, you can only have your heart broken so many times before you just pack up and move on.

Amplive Remixes Radiohead, I Finally Join the Technology Era

So if you haven't heard about the trials and tribulations behind Amplive's remixes of Radiohead's In Rainbows, here's the short and skinny of it. Amplive planned to release an album (of sorts) of remixes and reinterpretations of the new Radiohead album with help from such big names as Del the Funky Homosapien and Chali2NA without asking permission from the band. No problem right? After all the album was released to the public via the internet for basically free. Wrong! Apparently Radiohead's management felt that this wasn't the kind of forward-thinking progress the band would encourage and filed this.

Well to keep a short story brief, things have been worked out between the two camps and you can now freely download Amplive's Rainydayz Remixes here. All is right in remix land again.


In a bit of personal news, I finally bought an Ipod. Thanks to my job I was able to purchase a gently used 80G Ipod for less than half the price I would've paid for a new one. I can finally mark step one off my technology checklist. Now for step two: build army of robots who weap openly while listening to Leonard Cohen's Songs of Love and Hate. Why? Because I can!

Sources: Tiny Mix Tapes, Pitchfork.