‘No amount of lawsuits or legal threats will change the fact that this behavior is considered normal — I'd wager the vast majority of people under 25 see nothing wrong with non-commercial sharing and remixing, or think it's legal already.’

“i made video called “unicode”. it shows all displayable characters in the unicode range 0 – 65536 (49571 characters). one character per frame.”

This will come in handy someday.

“The script is specifically designed to take an MPEG-4, H.264 file, move it to a new folder based on the filename, create WEBM and OGV versions of it in the new folder, and upload the whole folder to a server using rsync. SSH information and target directories are specified in the config at the top of the script. At the end, it takes what it knows about the files and filenames and creates a TextMate Markdown blog template, inserts the video shortcode for the VideoJS WordPress plugin (which is common syntax for other plugins as well) and opens it for editing in TextMate.”

A video by Jordan Blackmon, bassist for Toro Y Moi.

Mike Monteiro, the head of Mule design, explains the importance of being confident, getting paid, and having contracts and a lawyer. An excellent presentation.

“The whole joy of hearing Minaj swoop through a bunch of different registers, for me, in this verse, is that all of them are the same person making the same point. They’re not in dialogue with one another!”

How native-language subtitled music videos dramatically increased literacy in rural India. And there's a local professor here promoting the same SLS ('Same-language Subtitles') idea. Would be nice to talk to him.

A video by fiilmaker Andrea Dorfman and poet/singer/songwriter Tanya Davis.

"Society is afraid of alonedom, like lonely hearts are wasting away in basements, like people must have problems if, after a while, nobody is dating them. but lonely is a freedom that breaths easy and weightless and lonely is healing if you make it."

This is absolutely beautiful. "Brilliant Noise takes us into the data vaults of solar astronomy. After sifting through hundreds of thousands of computer files, made accessible via open access archives, Semiconductor have brought together some of the sun's finest unseen moments. These images have been kept in their most raw form, revealing the energetic particles and solar wind as a rain of white noise. This grainy black and white quality is routinely cleaned up by NASA, hiding the processes and mechanics in action behind the capturing procedure. Most of the imagery has been collected as single snapshots containing additional information, by satellites orbiting the Earth. They are then reorganised into their spectral groups to create time-lapse sequences. The soundtrack highlights the hidden forces at play upon the solar surface, by directly translating areas of intensity within the image brightness into layers of audio manipulation and radio frequencies."

"A collaborative music/spoken word project." A collection of YouTube videos of people playing various instruments all in the B-flat key. Start and stop and fade them each in any way at any time. This is awesome.

We do love trouble.

"Success is how many shining eyes I have around me." And that old chestnut about never saying anything to someone that you wouldn't want to be your last communication with them. Platitudes, yes, but very good ones. The second inspirational music-related video in as many days to have moved me to tears (yesterday's Sigur Rós MoMA concert being the first).

This is a fine, fine performance, and very well presented. Wish I could have been there.

This must be the best children's show ever.

A video for a song from the forthcoming "Silent City" collaboration between Brian and Will Oldham.

One of the best episodes ever.

"We had an idea. Go to a place. Ask fifty people the same question. Film their responses."

This video is my favorite thing ever. This song is my favorite thing ever. I am not joking at the moment.

Hehe.

From New York/French architecture firm Planda, a house for the duo. Fictional, thankfully.

A very focused blog that ruined/made my evening.

This could come in handy someday.

Great work, as usual. Understated, to great effect. Adam kills. The short bits are great. Want more.

Hot and weird.

I love wind turbines.

A great, humanizing interview with the musician and fashion designer. He's eclectic, egotistical, but honest and aware of how self-absorbed he is.

"Watch free documentaries."

Just like it says.

Includes Jan Svankmajer's fantastic "Et Cetera."

From the guys who brought you the Diet Coke and Mentos experiment.

"The first music video ever shot with a 360 degree panoramic lens."

Fantasy footage.

Lots of videos of lightning in slow motion, which is awesome.

"I’ve seen many images of the Earth and Moon together as taken by distant spacecraft, but this, seeing them in motion, really brings home just where we are: a planetary system, an astronomical body, a blue orb hanging in space orbited by a desolate moon

They can flip themselves into the air a bunch of centimeters by snapping their jaws. This video is wonderful.

The mayor of La Paz, Bolivia, has instituted a program where in teenagers dress up as zebras and act as crossing guards. This helps solve the problem of dangerous traffic in La Paz. This is great. Absolutely great.

About thirteen minutes of The Field doing his remix of The Honeydrips' "Fall from a Height" while !!! jam out over it. One of those times I want to say, "that's the best thing I've ever seen." Add this to the surefire-cheer-up list.

A variety of homespun video presentation software for all your art installation needs.

Spectacularly awesome homespun sprite-anime disco gore apocalypse. With happy metal hardcore soundtrack to boot.

Explanatory stills from (and a link to) the fantastic new Spoon video.

Check out "things for sale i will mail you" and everything else. Cute and creative and solemn and exuberant. Wonderful.

"Hi Joe! Hi Jane!"

Not just good.

Typography in motion project for once of Vince Vaughn's rant monologues from "Wedding Crashers." Particularly well done.

One guy's attempt to influence the policy decisions regarding global warming. An introductory video and dozens of supporting videos designed to anticipate every counterargument and criticism.

"Make it a story, a poem, an experiment; just make make make it. It doesn't have to be slick, it doesn't have to have money in it, it just has to be beautiful, honest, great. The first and golden rule: make a video you love for a song that you love."

The head of a company that makes videos go viral explains exactly how it's done. The commenters go crazy. Very interesting in the specific sense, but even more so in the overall evolution of media.

A video interview with the infamous web celebrity "Randy Constan, who has something of an obsession with dressing up as Peter Pan."

Friend Tom Wironen walks across in front of the stage around 0:35. Awesome! Not a bad song, either.

A very nice short history and profile of the Pentagram design and architecture firm.

Fred Armisen and friends do a skit show. It is good.

Oh, Japanese TV.

Absolutely ridiculous. Master Tetris player beats the entire game in record time, including the "invisible tetris" that plays behind the end-game credits.

So far, my favorite of the "Takeaway Shows" series. This is why I love music, plain and simple. Absolutely amazing.

Interesting videos from the experimental electronic musician. The third, "Phases," played behind him when he opened for Deerhunter in Boston in July.

Impressive quadralingual freestyling.

How to build a successful business.

A poem/video by Billy Collins, US poet laureate.

Neat. A lot about Craig's decision not to monetize, etc.

My friend James, master of electronic screwaroundery. You heard it here first.

New Sigur Rós side project. Ambient audio/visual projects. Awesome!!

"A documentary about the current state of copyright and culture." It's free, of course.

Excellent videos!

A new song from the roof of a building in France.

Jena Malone's music videos.

More videos by Brad Neely, creator of "Washington."

Understanding H.264 and how to optimize its encoding.

Play Divx, AVI, and tons of other video formats in QuickTime.

"It's a hysterical and spectacular mint-powered version of the Bellagio Fountains in Las Vegas."

He's working for social improvement.

"In 1969 the US Senate had a hearing on funding the newly developed Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The proposed endowment was $20 million, but President Nixon wanted it cut in half because of the spending going on in the Vietnam War."

A short film made entirely with public domain ISO symbols.

"Do you guys have a copy of the 'Garden State' soundtrack? That's supposed be indie-tastic!"

Realtime video plunderphonics.