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Die Antwoord Ups The Music Game To The Ninja Level
These people are awesome: South African rap-ravers Die Antwoord (translation: The Answer) have dazzled the interwebs in a matter of weeks with their latest music video Enter The Ninja. A literal butterfly effect is happening here—Die Antwoord is rippling the music world with Zef flow.
Emotional Attachment To Music
Terry McBride—CEO of Nettwerk—talks here about imagination. He argues that with music, context trumps content because music creates emotional bookmarks in our mind. Simply, the song is an emotion. These emotional bookmarks are significant because they enable us to travel backwards in our memories to when we experienced the music. Consumers are in control of the music industry, and access rules.
Dancing Graffiti
The film Bomb It portrays graffiti as the “biggest art movement in humankind.” With any movement there is opposition and many see graffiti or tagging as mere vandalism. Art or vandalism—where do you spray the line? “Graffiti is energy” says Bronx graffiti artist T-Kid and “it represents life” says artist Pose 2. The same can be said about dance—dance is energy—and it represents life in nearly every culture across the globe. The graffiti photos below show dancers and different types of dance around the world. Many images in this set were painted in the popular form of stencil graffiti. 14 photos and 3 videos.
Virtual Video Revolution in The Beatles Rock Band
The Beatles rock on in 2009 and players of The Beatles Rock Band have posted YouTube videos to show it. Here you can compare a video of Revolution from the videogame with the video of Revolution performed by The Beatles in 1968.
VirtualArt Visualjournal (Updated)
We’ll be running a new, virtual-art, image series, called the VirtualArt Visualjournal. The vision of the VirtualArt Visualjournal is to showcase live music photos, deviations, and digital artist interpretations of virtual music, live music connection, virtuality, or roleplaying.
Airport Venue: Entertainment Transportation
Entertainment and transportation will likely mesh in the future. Transportation—our movement from one location to another—has always had a massive influence on our culture, lifestyle, and architecture. We ride. We fly. We travel. We move.
