Star Wars/Dallas mashup
I’m not entirely sure why I get such a big kick out of this, but I do. Via Cynical-C.
videos
Friday Night Video
Melodies derived from stock charts:
Via Gerry Canavan.
I’m immediately reminded of these videos of classic hits as interpreted by Microsoft Songsmith — seriously, some of those are wonderfully awful — as well as by people who’ve taken Ze Frank’s already weird voice-based drawing toy and adapted it to interpret popular music.
In general, I’m interested in people who take tools and turn them towards completely unexpected purposes.
Friday Night Video
Elizabeth Gilbert’s TED talk on “A different way to think about creative genius”:
Via Waxy.org Links — although, really, I’ve just got to start watching the TED talks more regularly more often.