Herding Cats

Ever had the this problem? You might related to this video on Youtube:

More cat madness:

Here's a cat you wouldn't want to mess with:

The Tail Gunner from tokyoplastic on Vimeo.

Here's an even scarier one:

Catzilla from tokyoplastic on Vimeo.

Last two (h/t David Thompson)

Art Finches

I've seen this before, but wanted to find it again on youtube, a simple 'art finches' search found it on the first hit! Dig the Guitar solo man.

If you're interested, you can visit the Barbican.

Monday Blues Cure

Here's sade king of sorrow, from youtube:

Monday Blues Cure

Saw the Coen Brothers 'A Serious Man' on Saturday, which features the Music of Jefferson Airplane quite heavily. Here's one of my favourite songs of theirs - White Rabbit:

Oh, as an extra treat, here's the trailer for 'A Serious Man' - I just love they way this is put together:

Monday Blues Cure

Listing to this over the w/e: Sade: Cherish the day:

Monday Blues Cure

Caught a really good program about Fleetwood Mac on iplayer recently, so looked for "fleetwood mac dreams" on you tube. This is what I found:

Here's one with better audio:

Monday Blues Cure

Double treat today.

A 'pandeiro drum' music collection has just been released, so I searched on youtube and found this:

What a viruoso! Here's another, Bobby McFerrin:

World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale from World Science Festival on Vimeo.

Brilliant the way he gets the audience to make music! (h/t: David Thompson)

Monday Blues Cure

Here's the Goons:

Nice animation!

Monday Blues Cure

Here's an old favourite, "Joan Armatrading Love And Affection" - 2nd hit from youtube, Live performance version (1st hit was just the audio):

Monday Blues Cure

Went to a couple of concerts on Saturday, as part of a early improvisation weekend. The first concert I attend was the Orlando Consort, who did an excellent job of providing a history of polyphony from the early 10th century to the 14th, via the music and talking about it. Here's a video of them from youtube (1st hit on query 'Orlando Consort')

The second concert was delivered by Stevie Wishart, who gave a performance on medieval music using the Hurdy Gurdy and medieval violin. She also talked about the music and instruments, and was very engaging - she clearly loves her subject. Couldn't find any examples on youtube of here using those instruments, but this is interesting:

Here's a pic of Stevie playing a Hurdy Gurdy.

Monday Blues Cure

Here's the result of the query 'elvis costello pump it up', lots of relevant stuff on the hitlist, but sound quality on this seemed to be the best:

Monday Blues Cure

Here is the wonderful Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain:

Heres a longer video, with lots more goodies:

Plus a classic:

Obtained by using the band name on Google, source mostly Google video rather than youtube.

Monday Blues Cure

Here's Happy Mondays step on:

And a version with just the music:

Only thing of theirs I ever really liked. This is a satire of the the Madchester period.

Monday Blues Cure

Here's Madeleine Peyroux - Don't cry baby:

Several live versions, this has the best sound quality.

Monday Blues Cure

Here's Madeline Peyroux - 'Dance me to end of love':

It's by Leonard Cohen:

Monday Blues Cure

From the Album/Film 'A Hard Day's night':

Search 'the beatles Things We Said Today', 2nd hit down on youtube.

Flight of the Valkyrie's (erm Librarians)

Good Lord:

(h/t: Metro)

I love the smell of books in the morning, its smells like ... [answer on a postcard please]. Here's another example of the use of this music:

Shock Resignation at City University

Here and Here. Here's a result of a search for Gerswin's 'Summertime':

First hit on youtube using 'summertime gershwin'.

Non-English Video Search

Found a couple of sites which provide non-english language video search, RuTube and YouKu, both obviously 'inspired' by YouTube (which I tend to use rather a lot).

More details of RuTube and YouKu are available.

Can't enter Russian or Chinese queries, so I tried some English ones.

I tried queries 'putin' and 'manchester united'. The former yielded this rather amusing video called 'Putin on the Ritz' further down the hitlist. Found lots of relevant stuff for the latter.

I tried queries 'Uighur' and 'manchester united' on YouKu, found more interesting stuff on the latter, music videos mostly on the former - the area being something of a sensitive subject at the moment.

Bottom line - English queries seem to work quite well on these systems, and its clear that the services have thought about cross language issues to some extent.

Le Man 24 Hours 2009 (Part 2)

In a previous post, I suggested that "be a long time looking at this post if I had video for the full 24 hours!". Well I was wrong to a certain extent - I found that someone has actually posted videos in parts for all 24 hours of the race. Search was 'le man 2009 first hour part 1', after browsing youtube a couple of days ago.

It starts here:

Don't try and view it all at once!