M Is FOR MASHUP - RERUN from December 16th, 2008
Boris B Great
By DJ Useo
I know from looking at so many mashup sites that a lot of you are out there enjoying the mixes. Youse mugs that know about mashups seek them out & listen. But did you realize that many of your fave tracks have a video as well? Don't kick yourself, but you could easily have been watching mashup vids for years now. They don't often get the massive response of the mp3 versions, but some do & boy do they ever!
For instance check out DJ Earworm getting over 52,000 views on youtube for his Sean Kingston Mashup video 'Beautiful Mashup'.
( www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q2ItScGq9Q )
Or Faroff's getting over 129,000 views for his mix 'The Beatles vs LCD Soundsystem vs The Kinks'.
( www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPtWh5XjiH0 )
Or DJ Magnet's 'Octopus's Santeria' (Beatles vs. Sublime) having over 21,000 views. That, in my opinion,is a really fine response.
( www.youtube.com/watch?v=URCAaQbCsMA )
Yeah, there's a good bunch of people out there mixing with video instead of music & one of the best is BorisB ( borisbvideos.webs.com/ ) I like his work because he matches the imagery so well with the actual tunes.
Certainly he made my current top fave mashup video, & that would be DJ Schmolli's 'Iron Order' (New Order vs Iron Butterfly). The cutting of the Tom & Jerry toon that forms much of the the film totally gives the impression that a cat is singing the track. In a mere 3 months on YouTube alone, the vid has had 1,731 views. I don't know how people manage to find the mashup vids, but I'm sure glad they do. Just think, there's also Vimeo ( www.vimeo.com/alternativeboris/videos ) & other video hosters. It really shows how people love their visuals.
BorisB is a great video mixing talent, & the proof is right there on his site
He's done astonishing vids for tracks like The Illuminoids' 'God Save The Thief' (Sex Pistols vs Wolfmother), Futuro's 'Breathe With Me Till Dawn' (Pink Floyd vs Judie Tzuke) & Soundhog's 'Are You Gonna Be My Dirrty Girl' (Christina Aguilera vs Jet). Those are just the tip of the iceberg, too. With my enormous interest in mashups I wasn't happy till I'd seen all of his vids.& now that I have, here he comes with more! If you read the recent column here that mentioned Qubic's new project CONTINUUM 08 you saw BorisB had joined in with Qubic, Guv'nor, & The Reborn Identity to make vids for every track on the album. Great stuff, too. Now just this week comes his crowning masterpiece, DJ Zebra's fantastic & fantastically successful project 'BOOTSTOCK', a 40th anniversary tribute to Woodstock. BorisB (joined for one vid by Addictive TV) has put visual life to the entire album.I've been digging them all day.
Tracks like DJ Zebra's 'Freedom For The Hobo' (Richie Havens vs. Charlie Winston vs Yazoo), Mighty Mike's 'Soul Control' (Santana vs The Gossip vs Free) & ToTom's 'Street Sweeper Social Volunteers' (Jefferson Airplane vs Street Sweeper Social Club) are all the more astonishing when you see BorisB's footage. Get it now in one long dvd-like file or grab them as solo track videos.
Boris has you covered both ways! (
borisbvideos.webs.com/bootstockthemovie.htm )
Bookmark BorisB's site & check it often for he is one prolific video artist. Mashup-Charts has an entire section devoted to his vids ( http://www.mashup-charts.com/artist/?bootlegger=BorisB ).
Mashuptown ( www.mashuptown.com/ ) shows their love of BorisB's technique regularly.
Mashuphits has a killer new mashup video channel ( www.mashuphits.com/view.php?a=157 where you can see Boris's stuff alongside other worthwhile creations. An entire channel for mashup videos! Far out!
You're in for hours of splendid bootleg film at any of these links, & BorisB is there on all of them.
Dig in now & send your friends the links for Christmas gifts.
Let 'frankincense, myrrh & mashup videos' be the cry this holiday season!
(Final note - I couldn't locate any pics of BorisB, so I just did a search & used some of the results I got from 'borisb'. lol)
Mix Of The Week - Colatron's 'Tenebrism' is a very mellow affair, but it still has lots of edge.
Available as one long mix,or in a tracked version (I went for both) 'Tenebrism' is surely one of the strongest bootleg mixes you'll hear. Plus you get to see Colatron unclothed on the cover.(for those of you who prefer naked dj's).
Find the mix here - ( www.colatron.com/2009/12/tenebrism.html )
Latest Useo release
'Smack My Animals Up' (Nickelback vs Prodigy) is one of the most energetic mashup tracks you'll hear this week. Seriously, check it out in headphones for a massive example of sound separation. Nearly all the Nickelback is in the left channel, & nearly all the Prodigy is in the right channel. It will blow your mind! ( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2009/11/smack-my-animals-up-nickelback-vs.html )
Mashup Tip : Don't mix mashups & egg nog. The painful gas is not worth it.
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Froma Harrop: Why Evan Bayh Should Not Jump Ship (creators.com)
In an essay titled, "Why I'm Leaving the Senate," Evan Bayh brilliantly explains what's wrong with the Senate and how to fix it. If only the headline had read, "Why I'm Not Leaving the Senate" - or better, "Things I Will Do If Indiana Voters Give Me Another 6 Years.
The Pei master (guardian.co.uk)
He is one of the world's greatest architects, whose stunning buildings have sparked both wonder and controversy. IM Pei, now in his 90s, talks to Jonathan Glancey.
Germaine Greer: Painting landscapes requires authority. Is this why so few women try them? (guardian.co.uk)
Thérèse Oulton's landscapes set her apart from the vast majority of works in this male-dominated field.
Alan Wolfe: In Defense of a Common Culture (christianitytoday.com)
Back to the fray with E.D. Hirsch.
Rosanna Greenstreet: "Q&A: Peter Carey" (guardian.co.uk)
'If I could edit my past, I'd get rid of all the commas.'
Sanford Pinsker: Salinger and Me (irascibleprofessor.com)
Because I grew up in a small, backwater town in southwestern Pennsylvania, nobody brought 'The Catcher in the Rye' to my attention when I was in high school -- not my English teachers nor any of my friends.
Glenn Gamboa: Ludacris is on both sides in 'Battle of the Sexes' (Newsday)
Even though his new album is called "Battle of the Sexes," that doesn't mean Ludacris is on one side or the other.
20 Questions: Patty Larkin (popmatters.com)
This year marks Patty Larkin's 25th year of recording. The master musician's new CD, 25 (Signature Sounds, 9 March) features 25 of her most requested love songs, re-worked in acoustic format, and joined by 25 friends.
Jonah Weiner: Joanna Newsom Would Like Your Undivided Attention (slate.com)
Stop what you're doing and listen, closely, to 'Have One on Me.'
Interview by David Hayles: "Guest List: Harry Shearer on..."
Why Mr Burns has nothing but scorn for Wall Street bankers.
Chris Ayres: "Robert De Niro: more humble every day" (timesonline.co.uk)
The A-list actor has become the quintessential family man. But is there still a part of him that's married to the Mob?
Paul Gaita: "The Contender Q & A: 'Star Trek's Barney Burman" (latimes.com)
The makeup effects artist's blending of iconic and innovative designs for the feature film earned him his first Oscar nomination.
David Bruce: Homer's "Iliad": A Discussion Guide (lulu.com)
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The '1st Ever BadtotheboneBob Oscar Award Contest' Edition...
With a Prize! That's right, Poll-fans! A Prize! You like prizes, dontcha? I know I do!
I emptied my little change jar and I came up with $27.54 that I will gladly, gladly I say, donate to yer favorite charity. If that's you, OK, that's cool. If it's Marty and the page, so much the better, eh? All ya gotta do is correctly pick the winners of these Oscar categories... The closest one wins The Prize!... Ready? Set... Go !!!
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Best Actress in a Supporting Role
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List of nominees
Oscar night is Sunday, March 7th. Cut off for entries will be 8PM EST Saturday March 6th and will be posted Sunday morning. The winner will be officially announced Tuesday, March 9th, along with a new question.
Oh, ties will be resolved in a scientific manner involving my toddler grand-daughter, 'Maddie Muffin' and will be explained with the posted predictions... Good Luck!
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I had no idea the Space Station had grown to this size. This is
really cool.....
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Losing `Daily Show,' `Colbert Report'
Hulu
The popular video Web site Hulu is losing two of its most popular offerings: "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report."
Hulu announced Tuesday that Comedy Central was pulling its shows from the site beginning March 10. Both "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report consistently rank among Hulu's most watched programs.
Comedy Central, which is owned by Viacom Inc., was a relatively late arrival to Hulu, which is co-owned by NBC Universal, Fox Entertainment Group and the Walt Disney Co. (which owns ABC). When "Colbert" and "The Daily Show" were added in June 2008, some technology blogs such as Techcrunch.com said it signified Hulu's arrival as the pre-eminent provider of TV programming on the Web.
Viacom hasn't been shy about offering its programming on Web sites it owns. Full episodes of "The Daily Show" and "Colbert" are still offered by Comedy Central on each show's respective Web site. The shows were the first late-night talk programs to offer full-episode streaming online.
The exit by Comedy Central is a blow to Hulu, which has been increasingly gaining programming, not losing it, since it was launched in early 2007. The site has grown to feature more than 14,000 hours of original programming. More than 1 billion videos were viewed on the site in December, according to ComScore.
Hulu
'Hurt Locker' Producer Un-Invited From Oscars
Nicolas Chartier
A producer of the war story "The Hurt Locker" will not be allowed to attend the Academy Awards because of e-mails he sent urging academy members to vote for his movie. But he will receive an Oscar if his film wins best picture.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the action Tuesday against producer Nicolas Chartier, who violated Oscar rules that prohibit mailings promoting a film by disparaging another.
Chartier sent e-mails seeking support for "The Hurt Locker," "not a "$500 million film" - an obvious reference to best-picture contender "Avatar." Chartier apologized in a subsequent e-mail.
While Chartier cannot attend Sunday's ceremony, he would receive his Oscar later if "The Hurt Locker" wins.
Nicolas Chartier
Pulls Name From Film
Sarah Polley
Canadian actress-turned-director Sarah Polley on Tuesday withdrew her name from "The Heart," a two-minute film she shot on female cardiac health, which will air Sunday on Canadian broadcaster CTV's nationwide telecast of the Academy Awards.
Polley said she pulled her credit after she learned that the project from Canada's Heart and Stroke Foundation might indirectly market the Unilever brand margarine Becel.
Polley said she was initially thrilled to be associated with the project, but "I have since learned that my film is also being used to promote a product. Regretfully, I am forced to remove my name from the film and disassociate myself from it. I have never actively promoted any corporate brand, and cannot do so now."
The film, which stars Sarah Manninen and Jean-Michel Le Gal, was designed by Becel to avoid product placement and instead mesh with the Heart and Stroke Foundation's campaign to raise health awareness among women. Becel also commissioned a separate French-language film.
Sarah Polley
Baby News
Rex Wolf
"Law & Order" creator and executive producer Dick Wolf's wife, Noelle, has given birth to a boy, Rex Wolf.
Publicist Pam Golum says the baby was born Monday in Los Angeles, weighing 8 pounds, 1 ounce. Golum said in an e-mail Tuesday that "everyone is doing well."
The couple have a 2-year-old daughter, Zoe.
Rex Wolf
Authorities Bust
Mariposa Botnet
Authorities have smashed one of the world's biggest networks of virus-infected computers, a data vacuum that stole credit cards and online banking credentials from as many as 12.7 million poisoned PCs.
The "botnet" of infected computers included PCs inside more than half of the Fortune 1,000 companies and more than 40 major banks, according to investigators.
Spanish investigators, working with private computer-security firms, have arrested the three alleged ringleaders of the so-called Mariposa botnet, which appeared in December 2008 and grew into one of the biggest weapons of cybercrime. More arrests are expected soon in other countries.
The arrests are significant because the masterminds behind the biggest botnets aren't often taken down. And the story of investigators' hunt for them offers a rare glimpse at the tactics used to trace the origin of computer crimes.
Mariposa Botnet
Homeschooling: German Family
Political Asylum
The Romeikes are not your typical asylum seekers. They did not come to the U.S. to flee war or despotism in their native land. No, these music teachers left Germany because they didn't like what their children were learning in public school - and because homeschooling is illegal there.
"It's our fundamental right to decide how we want to teach our children," says Uwe Romeike, an Evangelical Christian and a concert pianist who sold his treasured Steinway to help pay for the move.
Romeike decided to uproot his family in 2008 after he and his wife had accrued about $10,000 in fines for homeschooling their three oldest children and police had turned up at their doorstep and escorted them to school. "My kids were crying, but nobody seemed to care," Romeike says of the incident.
So why did he seek asylum in the U.S. rather than relocate to nearby Austria or another European country that allows homeschooling? Romeike's wife Hannelore tells TIME the family was contacted by the Virginia-based Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA), which suggested they go to the U.S. and settle in Morristown, Tenn. The nonprofit organization, which defends the rights of the U.S. homeschooling community - with its estimated 2 million children, or about 4% of the total school-age population - is expanding its overseas outreach. And on Jan. 26, the HSLDA helped the Romeikes become the first people granted asylum in the U.S. because they were persecuted for homeschooling.
Political Asylum
Another Temper Tantrum
Naomi Campbell
A man hired to drive Naomi Campbell told police the supermodel assaulted him from the back seat of a luxury sport-utility vehicle on Tuesday before hopping out and running away.
The driver, whose name wasn't immediately released, told police he pulled the black Cadillac Escalade over in midtown Manhattan after Campbell hit him from behind and his head struck the steering wheel, causing bruising under his right eye. He spoke to a traffic agent, who alerted police. Campbell was not at the scene, police said.
The driver, apparently hired just for the day, told police he picked Campbell up at a Manhattan hotel and was taking her to Astoria Studios, a TV and film studio complex in Queens, New York Police Department spokesman Paul Browne said.
Campbell's assistant spoke to police, but authorities were still looking to talk to the 39-year-old model. The driver was at a police precinct Tuesday evening.
Naomi Campbell
Too Hot For Brazil?
Paris Hilton
A sultry beer ad featuring Paris Hilton has been pulled after consumer complaints and a watchdog agency's investigation.
The television and Internet ad featured Hilton in a short black dress preening and rubbing a can of Devassa beer on herself, all to the delight of onlookers watching through her window.
An ad watchdog group, Conar, asked last week that the ad be removed, noting that regulations don't permit a beer commercial to treat women as overtly sensual objects. Brazil's Secretariat for Women's Affairs also said it had received complaints about the ad.
Many Brazilian beer ads feature women in bikinis - but in the context of a beach setting, where such clothing is expected.
Paris Hilton
Turns Down Used Clothing
Smithsonian
What O.J. Simpson wore when he was acquitted in 1995 of murdering his ex-wife and her friend was the suit seen around the world during one of the most watched televised moments in history.
But the Smithsonian Institution, America's repository of historical artifacts, rejected it Tuesday as inappropriate for their collection.
Announcement of the museum's snub came the morning after a California judge approved the donation as the solution to a 13-year court battle over the carefully tailored tan suit, white shirt and yellow and tan tie. The ensemble has been held by Simpson's former sports agent, Mike Gilbert.
Fred Goldman, the father of the man Simpson was accused of killing in 1994, had been fighting Gilbert for the suit, which Simpson has said was stolen from him.
Smithsonian
Art Collection Negotiations
Baroness Thyssen
The widow of industrial magnate Baron Thyssen is negotiating the sale to the Spanish state of 240 works from her 700 million euro private art collection, she said in an interview published Tuesday.
Baroness Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza wants the state to add the paintings to the rest of the collection that belonged to her late husband, Hans Heinrich von Thyssen-Bornemisza, and which are displayed at Madrid's Thyssen Museum.
The 240 paintings are currently on show in a modern wing of Madrid's Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, near the more than 700 works of the Thyssen collection which already belong to the state.
She said the Spanish government may agree to rent her private collection with an option to buy it after 25 years.
The negotiations with the state are complicated by a family feud involving her son, Borja, and her two adopted daughters.
Baroness Thyssen
Moving Toward "Constant Eating"
U.S. Kids
U.S. children eat an average three snacks a day on top of three regular meals, a finding that could explain why the childhood obesity rate has risen to more than 16 percent, researchers said on Tuesday.
Children snack so often that they are "moving toward constant eating," Carmen Piernas and Barry Popkin of the University of North Carolina reported.
More than 27 percent of calories that American kids take in come from snacks, Piernas and Popkin reported in the journal Health Affairs. The researchers defined snacks as food eaten outside regular meals.
"Childhood snacking trends are moving toward three snacks per day, and more than 27 percent of children's daily calories are coming from snacks. The largest increases have been in salty snacks and candy. Desserts and sweetened beverages remain the major sources of calories from snacks," they wrote.
U.S. Kids
Comedy Of Errors
Silvio
A political comedy of errors has hurt Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's coalition less than a month before key regional elections, in the latest headache for a man already weighed down by a string of scandals.
In a fiasco that Italian newspapers said left Berlusconi fuming at his aides, his People of Freedom (PDL) coalition missed the deadline for registering candidates in Rome province for key regional elections seen as a test of national strength.
Rome province, the largest in the Lazio region of which Rome is capital, has more than 2 million voters. Thirteen of Italy's 20 regions will vote on March 28-29.
Losing it would be a major embarrassment for Berlusconi, who was shaken last month by a high-profile corruption scandal concerning the head of the civil protection agency, a close aide. Berlusconi also faces two trials, for tax fraud and for bribery. He denies all wrongdoing.
Silvio
Foggy Music Video
Jamestown, PA
Northwestern Pennsylvania fire officials say fog being made for a music video prompted a restaurant to report a fire.
The video was being shot Saturday afternoon at a teen dance club in the basement of a 19th century building in Jamestown. A restaurant on the third floor was hosting a 70th wedding anniversary party for a couple in their 90s.
Jamestown Assistant Fire Chief Tom Luckock says people at the restaurant called the fire department when the manmade fog filled the building. Firefighters determined it was innocuous.
The businesses are located about 75 miles northwest of Pittsburgh in a building called Mark Twain Manor. The building is named for Twain because he was friends with the physician who constructed the home in the mid-1800s.
Jamestown, PA
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by the Nielsen Co. for Feb. 22-28. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. Winter Olympics (Friday), NBC, 24.5 million.
2. "American Idol" (Tuesday), Fox, 24.2 million.
3. "American Idol" (Wednesday), Fox, 23.0 million.
4. Winter Olympics (Thursday), NBC, 22.9 million.
5. Winter Olympics Closing Ceremony, NBC, 21.4 million.
6. Winter Olympics (Tuesday), NBC, 21.3 million.
7. Winter Olympics (Monday), NBC, 20.9 million.
8. Winter Olympics (Saturday), NBC, 20.6 million.
9. Winter Olympics (Wednesday), NBC, 19.8 million.
10. "American Idol" (Thursday), Fox, 18.03 million.
11. "Vancouver Gold," NBC, 17.99 million.
12. "Undercover Boss," CBS, 15.2 million.
13. "Marriage Ref," NBC, 14.5 million.
14. "Survivor: Heroes-Villains," CBS, 11.60 million.
15. "NCIS," CBS, 11.59 million.
16. "The Bachelor," ABC, 11.3 million.
17. "Desperate Housewives," ABC, 10.9 million.
18. "60 Minutes," CBS, 10.8 million.
19. "Two and a Half Men," CBS, 10.3 million.
20. "Amazing Race," CBS, 10.2 million.
Ratings
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