Posts Tagged ‘MUSIC VIDEOS’
Recreate an Extraordinary Radiohead Video with Ordinary Tech and This Guide [DIY]
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News, Technology on December 31st, 2009
Radiohead's "House of Cards" video was equal parts bizarre and beautiful, until you found out it was all data visualization. Then it was just mind blowing. This detailed Instructable teaches the technique with stuff you probably have around the house.
Point Clouds with Depth of Field from Kyle McDonald on Vimeo.
Those are the results of Kyle McDonald's at-home structured light 3D scanning, a technique that recreates images in "point clouds" purely from data on shape, color, and the relative distance between objects. Using only a digital camera and a projector, McDonald shows how you can replicate the effect that distinguished Radiohead's music video for "House of Cards," released last year:
While you'd need an advanced laser set up to do things just like Radiohead did, this guide will still have you blowing minds in no time. [Instructables]
YouTube’s VEVO, an Internet Imitation of MTV, Launches Tonight [Music]
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News on December 9th, 2009
YouTube and Universal have teamed up to create VEVO, a music video site which will host music videos with the blessings of various recording companies. The site is launching tonight and so far the details sound pretty great.
Mashable is reporting on the launch event and this is what they’ve learned so far:
- On stage, Google CEO Eric Schmidt stated that Bono suggested the meeting started VEVO.
- 85% of all music videos will go through VEVO, with the rest going on YouTube.
- VEVO will manage all ad sales
- The music video site is focusing on getting rid of duplicate videos. If you have ever browsed YouTube, you’ll find that many music videos do, in fact, have duplicates.
- VEVO will not launch with HD. That will come out next year.
- Now this is awesome: VEVO includes synchronized and integrated lyrics
- The YouTube and Universal joint venture will be premiering new videos from 50 Cent, Mary J Blige, and Mariah Carey tonight. They are all exclusives.
- You won’t have to watch a preroll every time you watch a VEVO video. It will serve ads based on aggregate usage.
- VEVO will come up any time you search for artists on YouTube
- VEVO’s launch sponsors includes AT&T, McDonald’s, Nikon, Mastercard, Dove, Colgate, Axe, and Infinit.
- Aol and CBS are joining the VEVO music network. This means that users coming through their websites will get VEVO.
Word is that the site is actually already live but bogged down by traffic. Is anyone able to access it? [Vevo via Mashable]
Video, and Universal Music, Killed the Radio Star [Music]
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News on July 15th, 2009
How's this for irony: "Video Killed the Radio Star," released in 1979 by The Buggles, is about how TV (MTV in particular) would kill radio. And now, 30 years later, Universal has disabled embedding the YouTube video.
Really, it's good that Universal has embedding disabled. If I could put it in this post, you'd be able to watch it. It might even get stuck in your head. And then, perhaps, you could buy the song on iTunes or Amazon via the link to purchase it that's over the video. Instead, I won't, because I can't. Universal will keep protecting its property by slowly killing it, and their unembeddable video will continue to kill their radio stars.
Maybe in 30 more years they'll have figured out how to survive on the internet, but at that point there will probably be something else that's come along that will take them a decade to figure out. [YouTube]
Gizmodo '79 is a week-long celebration of gadgets and geekdom 30 years ago, as the analog age gave way to the digital, and most of our favorite toys were just being born.
Amazing Music Video Is an International Webcam Collage [MUSIC VIDEOS]
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News on July 10th, 2009
SOUR / 日々の音色 (Hibi no Neiro) MV from Magico Nakamura on Vimeo.
Well, isn't this heartwarming and adorable. Japanese band Sour had fans use webcams in intricate and unexpected ways to create this lo-fi music video for their song "Hibi no Neiro." We promise you'll crack a small, satisfied smile. [Vimeo, thanks Jack!]
