is a Danish band that was started in 1995 by Henriette Sennenvaldt and Katrine Stochholm. What started as a duo on a bike tour, has grown to become an 8 person band producing music that I can only describe as something you might expect if Bjork had run off with the Kaizers Orchestra and started speaking Danish while developing a taste for opiates.
It's good, and the flash video I stumbled across for their track "Plantage" wasn't only a treat to view, it was also what led me to find out more about the band. So check out the video, and then, if you feel like it, visit the band's site. There is more information and a couple of tracks to download. It might be worth your effort.
They seemed to have spent so much time in an elevator that they started thinking about all of the things that could be happening to people in elevators. They even started thinking about the things that probably aren't happening but should. Or shouldn't.
They then spent the time to write out these little scenes, taking them out of their heads and onto paper. They eventually went form paper to film.
Now the films are on the web on a site called Elevatormoods. 14 short films in elevators.
Sometimes it involves pattern recognition and a bit of insight into peoples search behaviors.
That's the case with Guess the Google. For those of you who have grown bored with the usual ways of playing with our online search overlords, this may be a refreshing new toy.
It's a flash based game in which you are presented with a grid of 20 pictures that were all the result of a single keyword google search. You have twenty seconds to guess that keyword. Do it fast enough and you will get bonus points for the time remaining.
It's a simple idea that's surprisingly addictive.
Now while you're doing that, I'm going to go wrap my head around Google Base.
Is a pretty nifty new resource for fans of political media. Put together to help distribute various forms of mass communications, it has turned into a rather convenient center for Daily Show fans. You can also find recordings of various Air America shows, political podcasts and so on and so forth. You can also use it to host your own stuff, so if the lack of european perspective bothers you, you could do something about it.
The site includes instructions for using bittorrent, podcatchers, and various other tools of the digital media consumption trade.
Can make your life hell. They can also inspire creativity and inventiveness. Actually, they usually do both at the same time.
It was the sad state of spending in the Australian music video scene that resulted in the idea of making a video using Mobile Phones as the cameras. What started out as a joke has ended up as a pretty nifty music video. Nothing like a couple hundred phones and even more hours worth of post production to make a otherwise uninteresting band sehenswert.
or video blogging, or video casting, or whatever they are calling it these days, has become the next hot thing. iTunes 6 put it on millions of desktops one night when no one was looking, making it just as easy to subscribe to a video blog as it is to subscribe to a podcast.
This might just be a very good thing.
Unless you don't like watching people pointing cameras at themselves while they do things like going shopping for a microwave with their mothers. Fortunately, one or two vloggers have managed to find a format that is watchable.
Steve Garfield, a video producer from Boston who has his own vlog and also provides content for Rocketboom.com, has one post that really nails it. It's a quick and dirty piece covering his visit to the New England Autoshow.
I can sooo relate. Well, except for his problems fitting into some of the cars. That's a problem I will never have...
have discovered podcasting. Podcasting as marketing, and podcasting as Fan-Bindung.
For the release of their latest greatest hits CD, someone somewhere decided to put together an audio history of the band, digging up old interviews, recordings and various other audible bits to make a serialized history of the band.
I have to admit, I like the idea. It's a nice way to get some information on the band that you wouldn't normally hear. Too bad this particular production is a bit thin. It would be nicer to actually have the band sitting around talking about their past rather than listening to a moderated collection of clips.
As a matter of fact, if you're a band thinking of doing something like this, you might want to check it out as well. Listen, learn, and then make something better.
is a wonderful thing. Happy coincidence. That wonderful intersection of events that seem completely coincidental.
Like reading a story on Slashdot about the new stupid, including a wonderful summary of the hierarchy of stupidity from a global perspective, summed up by one poster thus:
"we all need somebody to ridicule as yokels. It makes us feel better. Europe has Austria, Australia has New Zealand, and the US has Kansas."
that little nugget of wisdom was rapidly corrected of course:
"Europe has the USA
I fixed your spelling for you."
that made me chuckle. So I found it rather telling that emylouharris had posted a link to a movie illustrating this correction in a most wonderful way.
one of those days that becomes one of those weeks, which becomes one of those months that ends up looking like it might become one of those years?
I have. As a matter of fact, I am having one right now.
It's most recent manifestation started with a dead drive in my laptop. It died while I was starting a major backup plan. Of course.
Drive replaced, I begin salvaging what files I could get off of it. Only to find that the drive I had done a partial backup to had also died. Of course.
And then I got sick.
So I start sniffling, sweating, and shoveling raw unnamed data from TWO drives onto my one remaining external, only to have some serious space issues. And find that one of the most important programs I need is nowhere to be found. No problem, I'll just go download it again. Right?
Right!?!?!
Well, I could have if my internet access hadn't been turned off.
On a Friday.
At the end of the day.
So after a very long bit of enforced internet abstinence, mounds of frustration and a muddled mind from evil medications, I finally manage to get back online.
And I can only assume that it is this sequence of unfortunate events that made me so receptive to today's webtip.
Wien | 19.11.2005 | 10:26 
