Wednesday, 19 June 2013

Why Don't We Do It In The Road?

A lyrical portrait of one of London’s most peculiar tourist attractions - a humble pedestrian crossing in 
St John’s Wood.

But this isn’t any ordinary piece of street furniture. A couple of weeks after Neil Armstrong took his giant leap, the Beatles took 
a few short steps across Abbey Road.

Why don't we do it in the Road? from chris purcell on Vimeo.

Tuesday, 18 June 2013

98 Movie Fight Scenes Mashed Up To Mötley Crüe's "Kickstart My Heart"

Ronseal.

Found on b3ta

Hove Festival 2013

My favourite festival, Hove Festival, Norway. Yes, I work at a festival in Norway, and I'm heading there this year straight after Glastonbury, I can't wait. I'm looking for to seeing, in no particular order; the scenery; the people; the fjord; the scenery; the 90 minute change overs (this year I will attempt to go for a swim in the fjord during one of these); the very light nights. But not the food we get onsite.

Hovefestivalen 2013 from Hove Festival on Vimeo.

Monday, 3 June 2013

Star Trek : Unshaken

They don't move in the same direction at the same time, how is that possible? Rubbish acting.

Friday, 31 May 2013

Supercell Formation

Cameraman catches the formation of a massive supercell, the thing that can lead to a tornado. I think. I mean, it's easy to understand how, look at it spinning.

A supercell near Booker, Texas from Mike Olbinski on Vimeo.

Saturday, 25 May 2013

Freddie Mercury and David Bowie's Isolated "Under Pressure" vocals

These are the isolated vocals from Queen & David Bowie's track "Under Pressure".

Bumping into each other in Mountain Studios in Montreux, Bowie began to collaborate on a track by adding backing vocals, but then decided they should write a brand new one, which they did during a 24 hour booze and cocaine session.

‘When the backing track was done, David said, “Okay, let’s each of us go in the vocal booth and sing how we think the melody should go–just off the top of our heads–and we’ll compile a vocal out of that.” And that’s what we did.’ recalls Brian May. Some of these improvisations, including Mercury’s memorable introductory scatting vocal, would endure on the finished track. Bowie also insisted that he and Mercury shouldn’t hear what the other had sung, swapping verses blind, which helped give the song its cut-and-paste feel.

Not a huge Bowie or Queen fan, but found this story fascinating - read more about this track on Open Culture, and thanks to Bill from God Is In The TV for sharing