links for 2010-09-02

Posted: September 2nd, 2010 | Post a comment »

• Radiohead Live in Praha 8/23/09 (Prague DVD)
  On the 23rd of August 2009, a group of Radiohead fans descended on the Výstaviště Holešovice Exhibition Hall in Prague on a mission to capture the band playing using as many different angles as possible. Bringing together the exceptional talents of many contributors, here is the result.
  (tags: radiohead concert youtube streaming fan video)
• Radiohead lend their music to fan-made live DVD | Music | guardian.co.uk
  Radiohead have thrown their support behind a fan-made live DVD, providing the hi-fi soundtrack to Czech film-makers' amateur shots.
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Radiohead Live (Prague fan DVD)

Posted: September 1st, 2010 | Post a comment »

“On August 23rd 2009, a group of Radiohead fans descended on the Výstaviště Holešovice Exhibition Hall in Prague on a mission to capture the band playing using as many different angles as possible. Bringing together the exceptional talents of many contributors, here’s a glimpse of the result.”

The footage was shot by 50 people using Flip cameras. Radiohead provided audio masters to the makers of this DVD, shot on 23 August 2009.

Free download in various formats

links for 2010-09-01

Posted: September 1st, 2010 | Post a comment »

• John le Carré interview – Telegraph
  "And the Blairs…’ Cornwell shakes his head despairingly. ‘Him and his wife. The shared greed that emanates from the pair. It’s embarrassing. I’ve become more radical in old age."
  (tags: johnlecarre author literature spying espionage)

links for 2010-08-31

Posted: August 31st, 2010 | Post a comment »

• The Wilderness Downtown
  Interactive film built in HTML5. By Arcade Fire and Chris Milk. Works in Chrome.
  (tags: video html5 interactive chrome music arcadefire)
• De Morgen Multimedia – Vlaamse omroepen samen ten strijde tegen Telenet en Belgacom TV (1150876)
  Flemish broadcasters want to push TV watching back to the stone age. They say delay tv, dvr, etc is ruining their product. They want people to watch channels, not programmes. Muwahaha.
  (tags: television, belgium)

Arcade Fire – Wake Up (Reading 2010)

Posted: August 30th, 2010 | Post a comment »

update: unfortunately embedding has now been disabled for these videos

The hair stood up on the back of my neck watching Arcade Fire play Reading on BBC 3 the other night. The band has uploaded the entire show to YouTube.

Max Richter – On the nature of daylight

Posted: August 30th, 2010 | Post a comment »

Enjoy this happy little ditty by German composer Max Richter.

www.maxrichter.com

links for 2010-08-30

Posted: August 30th, 2010 | Post a comment »

• Third edition of OED unlikely to appear in print format | Books | The Guardian
  Yup. Threw out all my dictionaries earlier this year.
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Erwin Olaf: “Adversity breeds beauty”

Posted: August 29th, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Erwin Olaf Interview from Katharina on Vimeo.

I don’t have a lot of Dutch heroes. The two that I have are both photographers. Erwin Olaf is one of them. VPRO television aired a marathon interview with this 51 year old photographer this evening, in which he talked about his work and various tv, film and documentary fragments that meant something to him. He came intelligent, humble, inspired and passionate. Feedback on Twitter re: the show and Erwin was extremely positive (#1 trending topic) all evening and went into overdrive during his fiery rant near the end of the show, in which he called for people to unite, be brave and strike back at the growing intolerance and violence against gay men and women in our nation’s capital in particular.

Recent work by Erwin Olaf

British Sea Power – Come Wander With Me

Posted: August 29th, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Lost track of British Sea Power, so I missed this lovely tune from 2009, set to a scene from Man of Aran, the classic 1934 film. The band did a complete soundtrack for the movie which was released on DVD. They performed the whole soundtrack live at the British Film Institute last year.

Gangsta!

Posted: August 28th, 2010 | Post a comment »

First I heard of this. Boardwalk Empire, a new series on HBO from Terence Winter (writer, The Sopranos) and Martin Scorcese based on a book by Nelson Johnson. It is set in Atlantic City, New Jersey during the Prohibition era and stars Steve Buscemi. Starts September 17.

via Vandenb