Photo from The Big Picture

This guy is so rad in such an unexplainable way. Not only did he hand make a ukulele/toy piano/kazoo so he could rock Final Countdown, he actually rocks it hard! I can’t tell if dude is totally serious or not, but I got to give it to him for living the dream. (thanks Metal Injection)

This next video is from the big O up north, Oakland. The home of the hyphy movement, whistle-tip go whoop and E-40, Oakland for some reason is always coming up with strange and comical trends. This new one is called Scraper Bikes, and from the best of my reasoning it’s all about putting colored construction paper in your spokes. Its better than it sounds, check out this dude ghost ride the whip…

SoundCloud has created a clever music sharing and distribution platform, that will most likely change the way those of us who work in music, collaborate and share audio files. I can also easily see the service becoming a powerful platform for consumers to casually share music files with each other.

SoundCloud: The Tour from SoundCloud on Vimeo.

Now I don’t think SoundCloud are solving the moneitization problem here, in fact they are providing an easy way to distribute unpaid music between folks, but the fact is that this ship has sailed. Ownership of music has become a commodity equation. While possessing music still matters, the purchase of that posession does not. SoundCloud understands that, and they have built an application to allow people to share music in a sensible and intuitive way.

Send me your track

I have included the SoundCloud dropbox on my page just above the playlists, so please feel free to drop me a song or two. I would love to hear anything you are listening to at the moment, old, new or a work in progress don’t hesitate to send it my way. I have included the dropbox above, so send me song and set up your own while you’re at it, I will return in kind.

The first site to make my seldom noticed but well respected blog roll is Favtape, the answer to Muxtape’s unfortunate demise, and a welcome step up in features. Using the Seeqpod API, Favtape manages to pull off the amazing feat of being an easily navigated and fully stocked music streaming destination. Check out my favorite favtape, the iTunes 100 chart. (I’m from the music business, I am addicted to charts. Sorry.)

The Dieline is a killer design blog that picks the best and most contemporary packing design in the world to display. Every time I come here I get my mind blown with not only the scope of the creative designs being manufactured in packaging but also the brilliant packaging architecture that comes with it. It’s well worth getting deep into this blogs posts…

Hipster Runoff has actually been on my blog roll since day one, but because it is the most consistently hilarious site online, I have to feature it. HRO as the sites acronym goes, manages to lampoon hipster trends before they manage to become trends, its amazing how he does it. For example he was the first to call out the Sleeping over at your boyfriends house fashion trend, and I totally saw a chick wearing a dudes dress shirt as a skirt today…

p.s. I am aware that Favtape and Hipster Runoff are jocking the same logo, but I call this one in HRO’s court as he’s been around since 2K6 and I think his is making fun of the all caps sans serif electro dj Myspace header trend that swept the world in 2K7.

The big news to report is we are premiering One Track Mind for the first time to the public on Facebook Film. It will be the first film ever premiered on the Facebook platform. I am quite stoked to be unveiling the movie here, I hope it’s the first in a long line of groundbreaking films to premiere on Facebook. Check out the trailer below:

One Track Mind from Woodshed Films on Vimeo.

Despite being a brilliant film maker, Chris Malloy also maintains a brilliant musical taste which is on full display in the soundtrack of One Track Mind. You can find that below as well:

Weezer Vinyl Manufacturing from Roberto Lepe on Vimeo.

This boombox dude looks kind of like Stewie from Family Guy to me, except this guy hangs out in Silverlake and chicks dig him.

DGENERATE NATION - Skate With Me from DGENETICS on Vimeo.

The description for this video says it pretty well “The story of an artist who is pretentiously unclear.” Having come across way too much bad video art in my life, I can appreciate this hilarious satire on artists and the format.

An Artist from Phil Eastman on Vimeo.

I am not sure if Stuart Price has produced this entire album, in fact I am not sure if I would like an album of songs that sound like a remix minus the remix, but at least its exciting that The Killers are back with a new set of songs and this time around it looks like they got their sights on the dance floor. And who wouldn’t want to dance with dudes dressed like this?

The Killers - Human (new single from Day&Age)

When bolo ties fail, go for bowties and foxtail ponchos right?

Hell yeah!

UPDATE: My sister (and business partner) just realized that the background from this promo shot above is ripped from a stock wallpaper photo for Mac’s. Here’s a screenshot from the system preferences:

Hope they didn’t pay the art director too much money for the ripped off moon pic…

The Killers - When You Were Young (Jacque Lu Cont’s Thin White Duke Mix)

If you detect them too leave your guesses in the comments and I will see if mine match yours.

So in the midst of my awestruck appreciation for working amongst the great halls of the New York Public Library’s Central Branch, I remembered the below video I had seen before I left for New York. It made me think about how much might be being lost in today’s digital world.

I wonder if someone is cataloging and organizing the rapid flow of music that is being uploaded and distributed online everyday. Is the Smithsonian filling up hard drives of songs posted daily throughout the blogosphere? Man I hope so, otherwise much of our modern music recordings are at risk of dying an intangible death. I hope someone somewhere has taken the same trouble and pains to save and collect our present day digital music library, as this man took to archive the vinyl LP’s of the past.

The Archive from Sean Dunne on Vimeo.

Here are some pictures of the New York Public Library to give it some grand context.

In this first video by St. Vincent she is not only drop dead gorgeous and talented she is also a boy scout troop leader! Swoon.

St. Vincent “Jesus Saves, I Spend” from Marc Ritzema on Vimeo.

p.s. i know it’s almost a year old, but its still rad!

This second video is mind blowing in its execution, and plus it was filmed in Buenos Aires where I started this blog from, so it’s extra cool.

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

With all the bad luck New Orleans has had, I hope people don’t forget what a unique and relaxing place it can be. I visited my friend Elli for Mardi Gras this year in the Big Easy, and my last day there consisted of exactly what you see in this video, heaven.

Kicking Off The Summer: New Orleans Style from Benjamin Reece on Vimeo.

The rumor is that the below graphic music visualizer (is that what you call it?) is going to be included in iTunes version 8, which means I need to buy some trippier music…

Magnetosphere revisited (audio by Tosca) from flight404 on Vimeo.