The very first two hours of MTV [SlYT]
A Film On Possibility
British trancecore band Enter Shikari spent the last few days releasing a series of mini-documentaries, partially about the making of their 2020 album Nothing Is True & Everything Is Possible [YouTube playlist], but more interestingly about the sta…
I should buy Björk a boat
The 2005 video for Björk’s Triumph of a Heart (alternative) follows a familiar three-act story: relationship difficulties lead to one partner storming off for an evening of wild fun while the other (played here by Wittgenstein) ponders at home; thought…
Gillmor Gang: Social Climbing
Fear is back with the deadly combination of pandemic politics and a vicious variant. The good news is that if enough people took the shots we could cut the damage to something manageable. The other good news is progress on the twin issues of Trump and social media. In both cases some semblance of balanced […]
Amazon’s Fire TV Cube now supports Zoom calls on your TV
Late last year, Amazon launched support for two-way calling that worked with its Fire TV Cube devices. The feature allowed consumers to make and receive calls from their connected TV to any other Alexa device with a screen. Today, the company is expanding this system to enable support for two-way calling with Zoom. Starting today, […]
Class, a Zoom-only virtual classroom, nears unicorn status after SoftBank check
Class, a virtual classroom that integrates exclusively with Zoom, announced today that it has raised $105 million in a financing led by SoftBank Vision Fund II. The 10-month old startup has now raised a total of $146 million in known venture funding to date, which eclipses the amount of capital raised by founder Michael Chasen’s […]
Peachaaay
Something peachy this way comes: Dope Lemon’s 2019 Give Me Honey is a nice vibe and odd, initially tense, but ultimately feelgood video, apparently an homage to The Knife’s mesmerizing, lo-fi Pass This On, 2003. (Wikipedia: Dope Lemon, AKA Australian f…
Pinterest rolls out new features that let creators make money from Pins
Pinterest today is increasing its investment in the creator community by introducing new tools that will allow creators to make money from their content. Now, creators will be able to tag products in their Idea Pins — a video-first feature the company first launched this spring — to make their content “shoppable.” They’ll also now […]
you take your car to work, i’ll elaborately detail a longboard
Can I interest you in a wordless 14-minute timelapse video of making a fancy surfboard?
Give Me Your Glabrous, Your Rugose, Your Shambling Masses …
Statue of Liberty by Stina Stockholm (cc by-nc-nd)Halloween Jack on the Statue, amid many other unsettling thread remarks (brrrr!) in signsofrain’s post reminiscing about how we worshipped the husk.Enjoy! Or dip in as a palate cleanser between y2karl’s…