The Fewture

Fast Company and Wireless Electricity

noreply@blogger.com (Doug Vanisky) — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 08:46:00 +0000

Couldn't help but notice that Fast Company has a slew of interesting articles going on right now.

For instance, check out this article on planes powered by algae. Or the U.S. as the greatest innovator.

This one on wireless electricity stands out the most:

But strap on your rubber boots; Tesla's dream has come true. After more than 100 years of dashed hopes, several companies are coming to market with technologies that can safely transmit power through the air -- a breakthrough that portends the literal and figurative untethering of our electronic age. Until this development, after all, the phrase "mobile electronics" has been a lie: How portable is your laptop if it has to feed every four hours, like an embryo, through a cord? How mobile is your phone if it shuts down after too long away from a plug? And how flexible is your business if your production area can't shift because you can't move the ceiling lights?

Yeah. I was totally wrong about Tom Petty.

noreply@blogger.com (Doug Vanisky) — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:38:00 +0000

Now the Fewture understands. Tom Petty is pretty much a genius.

Lu Zijian

noreply@blogger.com (Doug Vanisky) — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:52:00 +0000

Ba Gua Zhan Master Lu Zijian was 93 when this as filmed. He's 115 now.

This is how it should be done.

Andy Samberg - Jizz in My Pants

noreply@blogger.com (Doug Vanisky) — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:10:00 +0000

There's no jizzing in your pants for the Fewture. Unless it makes you that hype on possibilities. No harm there.

Otherwise, enjoy it while you can.

This starts slow, then gets funnier. And funnier.

By The Lonely Island.

The Edge & Bono (U2) - Van Diemen's Land (Live RTE Dublin '08)

noreply@blogger.com (Doug Vanisky) — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:46:00 +0000

This came from Scatter o'Light, a blog the Fewture truly loves. You can even grab the mp3 there.

A song which was last played live in '93.

2,000 Year Old Computer: Rebooted

noreply@blogger.com (Doug Vanisky) — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 23:56:00 +0000

Via Wired Gadget Lab:

A British museum curator has built a working replica of a 2,000-year-old Greek machine that has been called the world's first computer.

A dictionary-size assemblage of 37 interlocking dials crafted with the precision and complexity of a 19th-century Swiss clock, the Antikythera mechanism was used for modeling and predicting the movements of the heavenly bodies as well as the dates and locations of upcoming Olympic games.

Luna Angel - Keep Riding 12.13.08

noreply@blogger.com (Doug Vanisky) — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 01:40:00 +0000

Luna Angel performs Keep Riding at Mo Love! A Benefit for the Angel Family.

This went down on San Francisco's Pier 23 on 12.13.08 to celebrate the passing of Moese Angel.

Rest in power.

www.moeseangel.com

the Fewture's Top 3 Albums of 2008

noreply@blogger.com (Doug Vanisky) — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 07:04:00 +0000

1. Kings of Leon - Only By The Night
2. Kanye West - 808 and Heartbreak
3. Raphael Saadiq - The Way I See It

And if the Fewture had heard 808 sooner, that may be different.

To that Chronicle reporter dude on KFOG this AM who wrote that Pop is Dead: Sure, pop is dead. Because there is no more pop. Everything is too fractionated to have that type of all engrossing, hypnotic, musical hold over the majority of a national or global audience--but that doesn't mean that there isn't music happening. These three artists are moving music forward. No doubt.

We live in a disposal culture, true. Yet innovation still exists.

Michael Franti (Spearhead) @ Indie 103.1 FM

noreply@blogger.com (Doug Vanisky) — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 04:43:00 +0000

Performing Yell Fire and Bomb the World.

'...they telling you to never worry about the fewture...'

Cadillac Records

noreply@blogger.com (Doug Vanisky) — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 03:37:00 +0000

the Fewture loves the blues, so Cadillac Records is a welcome look at 1950s blues culture.

According to Philly.com's Carrie Rickey:

In 1950, as the blues, gospel and jazz cross-pollinated but before Detroit's Motown, before Memphis' Sun and Stax - and well before Philadelphia International Records - there was Chicago's Chess label. Those of a certain age fondly remember its logo, a silhouette of a king chess piece flanked by those of bishop and knight.
Cadillac Records, Darnell Martin's boisterous, if not always factual, account of the house that Muddy Waters, Howling Wolf, Chuck Berry and Etta James built, is a variety show of the personalities and music that spawned the urbanization of the blues and midwifed the birth of rock-and-roll.

The cast includes Columbus Short, Mos Def, Tammy Blanchard, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Adrien Brody, Gabrielle Union, Jeffrey Wright, Beyoncé Knowles, Cedric the Entertainer, and Norman Reedus.

A Moron Makes My Day

noreply@blogger.com (Doug Vanisky) — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 23:57:00 +0000

Thanks to mruttan.

808 and Heartbreak

noreply@blogger.com (Doug Vanisky) — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 20:43:00 +0000

d says they've been calling it his Nebraska. I can see why.

Kanye West's new album, 808 and Heartbreak, along with Q-Tip's The Renaissance are probably the most artistic hiphop albums we've seen in the last five years.

Since Black Starr.

Aside from maybe the Roots, of course.

But honestly, Kanye may have just redefined hiphop. Right now the situation with hiphop's identity has become too complicated, so it's really too soon to say.

But Kanye may have just found the exit strategy.

That's the way the Fewture sees things.

Welcome to Heartbreak and Love Locktown are masterpieces.

This and The Kings of Leon's Only by the Night are the 2 08 albums of the year.

Get Kanye's now. Support art like this. He deserves it.

This one goes out to SV. We lost a beautiful woman yesterday. Dedicated to all the heartbreak.

Robot Chicken Star Wars 2 - Anakin's Dream

noreply@blogger.com (DeeJayDog Productions) — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 19:56:00 +0000

In the Fewture, this video is so wrong.

But still so funny.

The Dutchess

noreply@blogger.com (DeeJayDog Productions) — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:58:00 +0000

Man. Sometimes the Fewture really wishes it could visit the Past to see the great musicians and performers who aren't around anymore.

Via Spectropop:

Anyone who's ever seen clips of Bo Diddley and his band tearing it up on "Hey, Bo Diddley" and "Bo Diddley" in the 1966 movie The Big TNT Show knows The Duchess. The embodiment of tough-yet-graceful rock'n'roll cool, sharing a microphone with the equally glamorous Bo-ettes (Lily "Bee Bee" Jamieson and Gloria Morgan), she dominated the stage in a shiny ankle-length dress, churning primal chords and rhythms out of her Gretsch guitar that gave even Diddley a run for his money.

Prop 8: The Musical

noreply@blogger.com (DeeJayDog Productions) — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 03:59:00 +0000

'What else does the Bible say, Jesus?'

See more Jack Black videos at Funny or Die

Jon Stewart and John Oliver report on the Mumbai Tragedy

noreply@blogger.com (Doug Vanisky) — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:17:00 +0000

François Macré - Thriller

noreply@blogger.com (DeeJayDog Productions) — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 04:15:00 +0000

A capella. Performed in 64 parts.

No idea what to say to describe this.

Update on Bush' Soul

noreply@blogger.com (DeeJayDog Productions) — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 16:21:00 +0000

President Bush has gone on record by stating he did not sell his soul during his presidency.

This comes amidst years of wild rumors that he had in fact sold his soul, and was attempting to drive the United States into the depths of hell.

According to a White House report regarding a StoryCorps oral interview conducted by President Bush' sister, Doro Bush Koch, Bush states:

I would like to be a person remembered as a person who, first and foremost, did not sell his soul in order to accommodate the political process. I came to Washington with a set of values, and I'm leaving with the same set of values.

Via Gawker.

MGMT - Electric Feel - Live from Abbey Road

noreply@blogger.com (DeeJayDog Productions) — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 09:27:00 +0000

Seriously. One of the Fewture's favorite songs.

As performed on Live from Abbey Road.

(Actual song starts up @ 1:30.)

Ohhhh. So that's Katy Perry.

noreply@blogger.com (Doug Vanisky) — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 02:38:00 +0000

My lovely woman has been walking around singing 'I Kissed a Girl' for months. From what she says, she likes the beat and finds it catchy.

I'm actually not all that into the song. I have nothing against it. But I just find the rhythm to be somewhat of a trainwreck. Sorry, that's me.

But, anyone who knows me, knows that MGMT's Electric Feel is one of my favorite songs. And that I love every single remix/version I hear of it cause it adds just one more flavor to it.

So, one of my favorite versions, besides the Justice remix, is by this chick with this awesome voice. It's live, super smooth and chill but captures MGMT's funk feel to it.

Yeah. So I just Googled Katy Perry and thought I'd find some little known singer.

Hey. I never claimed to follow Pop trends in music.

Katy Perry - Electric Feel (MGMT Cover)

Morihei Ueshiba Aikido Video

noreply@blogger.com (Doug Vanisky) — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 19:14:00 +0000

Via the Learn Aikido blog.

Japan Airline's CEO Haruka Nishimatsu Cuts his Salary

noreply@blogger.com (Doug Vanisky) — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 19:57:00 +0000

And his perks. For 3 years running.

See Detroit CEO's doing that?

No. Why? They're not true leaders. They're not like this gentleman.

'We in Japan learned during the bubble economy that businesses that pursue money first fail. The business world has lost sight of this basic tenant of business ethics.'

Monty Python Launches a YouTube Channel

noreply@blogger.com (Doug Vanisky) — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 05:24:00 +0000

'No more of those crap quality videos you've been posting...'

[Adult Swim] Robot Chicken: Take Your Daughter to Work Day: Star Wars Episode II

noreply@blogger.com (Doug Vanisky) — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:59:00 +0000

'These aren't the droids we're looking for. Move along.'

I can't stop watching these. They're so well done.

Santogold: The XLR8R Interview

noreply@blogger.com (Doug Vanisky) — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:26:00 +0000

The more I listen to Santogold's music, the more I like it. Some songs I don't like, but some (like L.E.S. Artistes, You'll Find A Way, and Lights Out ) are soooo dope.

And as far as her versatility and range goes, I mean, what do you expect from a Philly girl?