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Friday Videos - March 11th, 2016

posted March 11, 2016 #

I saw a tweet the other week that said something along the lines of "Time isn't passing faster, you're just experiencing a greater rate of decay." That's not verbatim and I can't find it anymore but, man, it really struck a chord. Anytime I think about a week flying by super fast, I just remind myself that it passed just as quickly as any other week, I just decayed a little faster than usual. Uplifting, right?

SXSW starts today and I'm not attending a single portion of this year. It's the first time in a very long time that I haven't made the trek to Austin to fight the masses. I'm not really even bummed about it. I'm sure I'll remark more on this later, as anyone that is down there should go see some Nashville bands.

On to the distractions! Many thanks to @_Pandy for the cover image this week.
  • Orkestra Obsolete play Blue Monday using 1930s instruments - Personally, I don't care for the vocal element of this but the instrumentation is great. I'd be down to hear more influential electronic bands covered by instruments of this era. via Austin.
  • A Man with 1,000 Klein Bottles Under His House - this guy is a delightful weirdo. We should all aspire to this level of comfort in our interests and home tinkering. I absolutely love his homemade tiny forklift.
  • ALONE - a somewhat NSFW short film about what people do in the privacy of their own homes when they're alone. Are these people actors? Were they actually captured alone by themselves? Definitely hard to tell sometimes.
  • Patrizia Pellegrino - Automaticamore - not a good video but a song you should play on repeat for the next month.
  • MAGI Synthavision Demo Reel (1980) - these guys went on to do the special effects for the original TRON. This demo reel covers their work predating that and it's great.
  • Stephen Paul Taylor - sometimes its just good to watch someone fly their freak flag loud and proud.
And, yes, there is the Lonely Island movie trailer and new Captain America trailer but you certainly saw those already, right?