Posts Tagged ‘music’
3D radiohead video
Radiohead just released a new video for its song “House of Cards” from the album “In Rainbows”.
No cameras or lights were used. Instead two technologies were used to capture 3D images: Geometric Informatics and Velodyne LIDAR. Geometric Informatics scanning systems produce structured light to capture 3D images at close proximity, while a Velodyne Lidar system that uses multiple lasers is used to capture large environments such as landscapes. In this video, 64 lasers rotating and shooting in a 360 degree radius 900 times per minute produced all the exterior scenes.
Watch the making-of video to learn about how the video was made and the various technologies that were used to capture and render 3D data.
Seven victims, aged 15 to 30, were stabbed Sunday morning (June 22, 2008) at the Sierra Nevada World Music Festival, with one victim requiring a life flight evacuation for a wound to the upper torso, in yet another tragic episode of ‘why drugs are bad’. I called the Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital to find out if the victim was ok, but the operator was unable to give me any information. I learned from the message boards that the victim was in stable condition.
Meanwhile, on Friday afternoon (June 20, 2008), lighting had passed through the area, igniting over a hundred blazes that would quickly choke the sky with a thick, unhealthy smoke. The Santa Rosa local paper, the Press Democrat, has good local coverage of the blazes which continue to rage. The air was so bad I slept in my car one night, and it reminded me of the San Diego fires in 2003. The sun was caught behind a smoky veil for the entire day, an orange globe trying to penetrate the haze. It is now hazy over the entire SF bay area. I woke up last night gasping for breath and had to break out my inhaler to help breathe.
Raashan Ahmad (from the Crown City Rockers) debuted his solo The Push (Om Records), featuring Chali 2na and DJ Vadim among others, at Amoeba SF last Tuesday. Finally had some time this weekend to get some choice selects uploaded. My battery was running out though, so it’s just a snippet; but a good track off his new release.
I’ve got a little playlist that’s been keeping my head nodding for a minute. It’s a positive rhyme revival and it’s why I love hip hop. Make sure you listen to ‘Without Love’ (ft. Zion I) from Crown City Rockers. New albums out, new ones coming out, and classics that’ve been out awhile: of course, Amplive’s recent Radiohead remixes, Rainydayz Remixes, are phenomenal. And coming out March 11th is the long awaited return of Del, dropping an album called The 11th hour. I just pre-orderd my copy today. There’s a single you can download over at Definitve Jux. In my quest for Bay Area B-sides, I picked up Raashan Ahmad’s B-sides, Bootlegs & Rarities with the fuzzy, addictive track ‘What U Wanna Do?’ Aesop Rock’s latest album recently dropped, called None Shall Pass. It has artwork by Jeremy Fish, whose new line Superfishal can be found over on Fillmore at Upper Playground. I’ll never get tired of the classic Crown City Rockers album, Earthtones. Another great album that dropped back in the fall of 2006 is a Zion I and the Grouch collab; Heroes in the City of Dope, (also with Mistah F.A.B. …check out SF Weekly’s recent article The Demise of Hyphy). A classic track from The Coup has been infecting my eardrums, too; download My Favorite Mutiny (off their Pick A Bigger Weapon album) from their site. And check out Zion I’s Politicks: Collabs & B-Sides if you get a chance, for some good cuts with DJ Hype, Akrobatik, and DJ Tonk.
But the love isn’t just confined to the bay area; I wanna send some up north the I-5 to P-town, my home town, and the talented Ohmega Watts, and then from the bay area and back down…to a few underground champions of course, Blackalicous, People Under the Stairs, and Murs, who is in San Bernardino on March 22, hosting an epic show called Paid Dues. Its an all star cast of some of the greatest underground hip hop legends featuring Sage Francis; Little Brother; Dilated Peoples; Jedi Mind Tricks; Living Legends; Hieroglyphics; Visionaries; Boot Camp Clik; Kool Keith; Busdriver; POS; Mac Lethal; Fatlip & Omni; Yak Ballz; B.Dolan; and Isaiah.
Amplive (half of Oakland hip pop legend Zion I) recently released a sick album of Radiohead remixes. It’s composed exclusively of source material pulled from In Rainbows, re-envisioned by Amplive and complimented by vocal work from Too $hort, MC Zumbi of Zion I, Chali2na of Jurassic 5, Codany Holiday, and Del The Funky Homosapien. It’s free to download here.
