A few years back I remember seeing an intense painting of Hendrix hanging in a friend’s apartment. I found out later it was painted live to a music track by the guitarist at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967. I’m really amazed by the energy that Denny Dent puts has brush strokes as [...]
First Aired: 1973
Lyrics & Music: Bob Dorough
Performed by: Jack Sheldon
Designed by: Tom Yohe and Bill Peckmann
Animation by: Phil Kimmelman and Associates
Fun Fact: Conjunction Junction was recorded on the same day as I’m Just a Bill, with the same band. Jazz singer Terry Morel sings the chorus.
Lyrics:
Conjunction Junction, what’s [...]
The progress of the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest particle accelerator, has been an interesting one. An air of cautious and excited attitudes have followed the project as it’s evolved through phases of development. There’s been some controversy surrounding the construction of the device, and with a recent breach of helium containment, it will [...]
Back in college, I used to go hang out with friends or draw to music played through the earliest builds of winamp. Usually we had version one of the whitecap or geiss plugins running in the background. There was a growing underground community of people writing their own visualization mods for plugins (it [...]
When I’m looking for some real hip hop, I’ve always got to dig deep. Thankfully there are bands out there with a natural metronome of pacing, lyrical rhythm, and style, all wrapped up in a bun of philosophy and content.
Flobots, I feel, satisfies this checklist. Their album, Fight With Tools is a mix [...]
Here’s a trio of people playing music on an iphone, ipod, and nintendo ds.
I remember seeing this many years ago. It’s fun to watch because you can tell how much the kid is enjoying the raw experience of making art! Hahaha. I try my best to remember this when I’m working on my own drawings.
This is a truly amazing music video of the world-renowned child [...]
Do you think you have what it takes to hang with the boys of Golimar? Watch this incredible video, dance along, and decide for yourself.
A viral video involving Donga stems from a scene featuring a song called Golimar (Shoot the Bullet). The scene contains choreography and elements which appear to be very similar to [...]
I really enjoy this song. I’ve always felt that great writing and lyrics are visual and act as a catalyst to travel through time, space, and other dimensions. It’s in our own mind that all dimensions are malleable to the will of the individual.
You can read the lyrics below as the music is playing [...]
What a great video that poses interesting questions that are relevant to our times and the cyclical nature of civilization. History doesn’t repeat, but it does rhyme.
When speaking about the song, Eddie Vedder stated, “That song is all about someone who’s drunk with technology, who thinks they’re the controlling living being on this planet. [...]
Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom is an educational Adventures in Music animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions, and originally released to theaters by Disney’s Buena Vista Distribution on November 10, 1953. A sequel to the first Adventures in Music cartoon, the 3-D short Melody, Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom is a stylized presentation [...]
Every week at school where my wife works the kids have a new theme they learn about. Just recently the theme for the week was DINOSAURS! ROOOOOOOOOOOAR!!
Dinosaurs are totally cool. One of my favorite shirts in grade school was red with a triceratops screen printed in the center. I’ve often wondered [...]
In my follow-up to Coldcut and Hexstatic’s videos, check this one out. It’s pretty rad. My friend Joe Capezzuto that got me into the Ninja Tune label and their artists about 10 years ago. My favorite part of the video is the monkey jumping off the large stone. I wish I [...]
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