This guy’s voice reminds me of a cartoon character… I can’t quite pinpoint it, but I want to say it’s a character in FernGully, that old school movie about environmental awareness and wood fairies. Man, I wanna watch that again… Anyway, bitch, you’re breakfast!

The song’s callede “Breakfast” by Le le and is about bitches and eggs. The video is drawings made by Piet Parra.

Actually, this is my face when I read this blog

Eschewing traditional cameras, the video for Radiohead’s “House of Cards” has been made with frickin’ laser beams. Next week, you can check that shit out here. I read the press release about it, and in lieu of understanding what the fuck they’re talking about, focused on the word “laser.” Blog award, right here.

From Nasty Little Man:

RADIOHEAD MAKES CAMERA-FREE VIDEO
“House Of Cards” Clip Created Exclusively Using Geometric Informatics and Velodyne Lidar Technology
World Premiere Early Next Week at Google
Data Made Available To Enable Fans To Create Their Own Short Clips

In keeping with their decision not to make conventional promotional music videos for any of the tracks on In Rainbows, Radiohead used absolutely no cameras in the making of its new  “House Of Cards” clip, which can be viewed at Google.com

Instead, “House Of Cards”, directed by James Frost of Zoo Films, was created utilizing two technologies: Geometric Informatics and Velodyne Lidar.  The Geometric Informatics scanning system employs structured light to capture detailed 3D images at close proximity, and was used to render the performances of Radiohead’s  Thom Yorke, the female lead and several partygoers.  The Velodyne Lidar system uses multiple lasers to capture large environments in 3D, in this case 64 lasers rotating and shooting in a 360 degree radius 900 times per minute, capturing all of the exterior scenes and wide party shots. Geometric processed their own data while 510 Systems processed the Velodyne Lidar data. The data was then manipulated by Union Editorial and the Syndicate to create the final result.

Google will premiere the video early next week at http://code.google.com/radiohead Additionally,  the band will be making available the data used to create the video for fans to manipulate into their own unique short clips. A short documentary detailing the unique process used to create the video will also be available via this link, as will 3D renderings of selected scenes.

Of Radiohead’s decision to eschew cameras for the “video,” Thom Yorke commented, “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.”

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Just got done posting a bunch of new reviews to the front page of this bitch, including DVD reviews for The Onion Movie: Revealing the Raw Truth and Cloverfield, and a bunch of new CD reviews including The Herbaliser, Abigail Washburn & The Sparrow Quartet and The Brakes. Yep. Oh yeah, and this was my face while I was posting them:

Today, our good friend Google is recognizing “special people,” a term said cautiously with clammy hands so as not to offend the parents/guardians of “special people,” who up until recently had been recognized by other terms.

Get those nasty comments ready, because I have a question for ya:

What is so special about being retarded?

Here’s to blissful ignorance. Get your child out of their hugbox and ready those angry comments and letters. It’s going to be one of those days.

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9p.m. show
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9p.m. show
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9p.m. show
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