M Is FOR MASHUP - RERUN - 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 )
Take some cartoon characters and pit them all in the same frame.
CONTEST TIME - Part 3
It's as simple as that.
Send your entries to me useo8@yahoo.com or Marty here at BARTCOP E.
I'll post all entries here and best entry wins a hand-drawn pic of their choice drawn by me.
This contest will run all December with winner announced December 30th, 2009. Contest ended December, 2009.
Here's an entry from SoosieQ.
Mashup Tip : Don't mix mashups & egg nog. The painful gas is not worth it.
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At first blush, the idea that a writer in the 21st century might learn something about English style from the King James Version of the Bible would seem like a nonstarter. The KJV turns 400 this year, and we have long since abandoned "thou" and "thee." Even the famous eloquence of the 1611 translation is something of a barrier for today's readers, who are accustomed to the more supple and colloquial style of modern writing.
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In the 1930s and '40s, Monterey was just a rough-and-tumble fishing town, where the canneries were the primary business. Cannery Row offers character studies of the lower levels of this little societal tide pool. Some chapters are stand-alone vignettes of life in Monterey, with characters who do not appear elsewhere in the book. One nice chapter is about an unfortunate gopher in a vacant lot. Characters appear and are then unceremoniously swept away, while others hunker down and let life's waves roll over them.
Betsy Sharkey: "Book Review: 'Conversations With Scorsese'"
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'Mars Needs Moms': How a picture book got the Hollywood treatment (Los Angeles Times)
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Portrait Fetches $26,000
Stephen Colbert
Political satirist Stephen Colbert auctioned himself off for $26,000 to benefit childhood education on Tuesday.
The host of Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report," the popular faux-news program that mocks self-important pundits, enthusiastically helped auction house Phillips de Pury & Company elicit bids for his "Portrait 5, Stephen(s)."
The portrait, which depicts Colbert saluting in front of several more images of himself, was defaced and otherwise enhanced by noteworthy artists Frank Stella, Andres Serrano and Shepard Fairey.
The portrait, which carried no pre-sale estimate, was first shown on a December 8 episode of "The Colbert Report" during an interview with comedian Steve Martin, a noted art collector who was discussing his book "An Object of Beauty."
Proceeds from the portrait's sale will benefit school arts projects through DonorsChoose.org, an online charity connecting donors to classrooms in need.
Stephen Colbert
Donates $2 Million To Semper Fi Fund
Bob Barker
Former TV game show host Bob Barker is donating $2 million to a charity that helps injured members of the military and their families.
The former host of "The Price is Right" will donate to the Semper Fi Fund, which assists Marines, soldiers, sailors, and Air Force and Coast Guard members who are injured during service.
A press statement says the donation will be made Wednesday at a ceremony in Hollywood.
Barker is a former World War II fighter pilot. He's also an animal rights activist and last year donated $2.5 million to help People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals open a new location in Los Angeles.
Bob Barker
Announces Retirement
Phil Collins
British singer and drummer Phil Collins has taken to his personal website to announce his retirement in a bid to clarify recent speculation over his career.
In a post titled "Breaking News," the multiple Grammy award winner writes that he wants to explain his reasons "for calling it a day" in response to articles claiming why he was quitting the music business.
"Many of the articles printed over the last few months have ended up painting a picture of me that is more than a little distorted," Collins explains.
Collins says he is stopping music so he can be a full time father to his two young sons "on a daily basis" - not because of bad reviews, bad press or because he doesn't "feel loved."
Phil Collins
NY Mansion To Be Razed
'The Great Gatsby'
A 25-room mansion some scholars believe inspired "The Great Gatsby" is to be razed for a subdivision.
Randy Bond, village clerk in Sands Point on New York's Long Island, says it will be replaced by five houses priced at $10 million each. The location faces the Long Island Sound.
Some F. Scott Fitzgerald experts believe the author used the sprawling 1902 property as a model for the home of character Daisy Buchanan, though the current owner believes the mansion's "Gatsby" link has been overstated.
Historians tell Newsday, which reported the deal Sunday, that hundreds of the mansions have been lost in the past 50 years because of rising taxes and maintenance costs.
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Writes Preface For Spy Novel
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton has entered the spying game.
The former president and million-selling memoirist has written a preface for Thomas Caplan's "The Spy Who Jumped Off the Screen." The book is a thriller about movie star and former intelligence officer named Ty Hunter and his race to keep nuclear warheads out of the wrong hands.
Clinton praises the novel as a "stylish, involving, utterly contemporary puzzle." Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), announced Tuesday that the book comes out in early 2012.
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New York Auction
Bejeweled Indian Canopy
A stunning, rarely seen bejeweled, nearly 150-year-old canopy from India is expected to sell for as much as $5 million when it is auctioned next month, according to Sotheby's.
The Pearl Canopy of Baroda will go under the hammer on March 24 as part of a larger auction of Indian and Southeast Asian Works of Art in New York.
It includes over 500,000 pearls, as well as numerous diamonds, sapphires, rubies and emeralds sewn on silk. Floral "Persian-style" vines made with colored beads circle the canopy.
The canopy dates from around 1865, when it was commissioned by the Maharaja of Baroda, in the present-day Indian state of Gujarat. It is believed that the piece was intended to be donated as a gift to decorate the tomb of the Prophet Mohammed in Medina, in what is now Saudi Arabia.
The man who commissioned the canopy, Maharaja Khande Rao Gaekwar, was known to be particularly fond of jewels. In 1867, he bought the "Star of the South", one of the largest diamonds in the world.
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"Moral Turpitude"
Charlie Sheen
A day after Warner Bros. Television fired Charlie Sheen from "Two and a Half Men" and the actor responded with legal threats, the studio has written to the actor's attorney providing the most public detail to date as to what is actually in his employment contract.
For the past month, since Sheen has engaged his media blitz against the show's producers, there have been numerous reports about a lack of morals clause in his contract. However, WBTV certainly seems to be making the case that Sheen's unprecedented conduct constitutes a breach of the deal.
In its letter, WBTV points to this contractual clause:
"If Producer in its reasonable but good faith opinion believes Performer has committed an act which constitutes a felony offense involving moral turpitude under federal, state or local laws, or is indicted or convicted of any such offense, Producer shall have the right to delete the billing provided for in this Agreement from any broadcast or other uses which are thereafter made of the episode(s) in which Performer appears. In addition, to the extent such event interferes with Performer's ability to fully and completely render all material services required hereunder or Producer's ability to fully exploit the Series, Producer shall have the right to treat such act as a default under the applicable provisions hereof."
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NPR
A National Public Radio executive was captured on hidden camera calling the tea party movement racist and xenophobic and said NPR would be better off without federal funding, in an embarrassment likely to fuel the latest round of conservative attacks on public broadcasting.
The video was posted Tuesday by James O'Keefe, the same activist whose undercover videos have targeted other groups opposed by conservatives, like the community organizing group ACORN and Planned Parenthood.
National Public Radio said in a statement that it was "appalled" by the comments from Ron Schiller, the president of NPR's fundraising arm and a senior vice president for development.
O'Keefe, best known for hidden-camera videos that embarrassed the community-organizing group ACORN, posted the video Tuesday on his website, Project Veritas. The group said the video was shot on Feb. 22.
The heavily edited video shows Schiller and another NPR executive, Betsy Liley, meeting at a pricey restaurant in Washington's Georgetown neighborhood with two men claiming to be part of a Muslim organization. The men offer NPR a $5 million donation. NPR said Tuesday it was "repeatedly pressured" to accept a $5 million check, which the organization "repeatedly refused."
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Mexican Court Allows Film
"Presumed Guilty"
A Mexican court on Tuesday ruled that "Presumed Guilty," a popular documentary criticizing the country's legal system, should return to theaters, only one day after it was suspended.
Three magistrates at a federal tribunal unanimously agreed to reverse the suspension in the "social interest," legal authorities said in a statement.
Almost one million people have seen the movie since its Mexican release on February 18, and it is already the most successful documentary ever shown here, after winning a string of awards at international festivals.
The film, by lawyers Roberto Hernandez and Layda Negrete, documents the retrial of street vendor Antonio Zuniga, who was serving a 20-year sentence for a murder he knew nothing about.
It provides a rare peek into Mexico's closed court system, where trials mainly take place on paper and the accused have to prove their innocence.
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Case Proceeds
Nicholas Brooks
The mother of a swimsuit designer found dead in a posh New York City hotel says she trusts "that justice will be done" after attending a court date for a songwriter's son, who is charged with murdering her daughter.
Sylvie Cachay's parents got their first look in court Tuesday at Nicholas Brooks. He said nothing and didn't look at anyone in the courtroom audience during the brief proceeding.
Antonio and Sylvia Cachay said they felt Brooks didn't care. His lawyer said Brooks didn't know the parents were there.
Brooks' father is Academy Award-winning "You Light Up My Life" songwriter Joseph Brooks.
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Bigfoot Filmmaker
Jonathan Doyle
A New Hampshire amateur filmmaker says his idea to don a Bigfoot costume and videotape hiker reactions was just a spontaneous idea and social experiment.
But Jonathan Doyle's Bigfoot sighting turned into a Bigfoot suing after a state park manager told him he had to pay $100 for a special use permit 30 days in advance and get a $2 million insurance bond.
Backed by the American Civil Liberties Union, Doyle is suing the state, arguing the requirement violates his free speech rights.
Doyle says he thinks officials at Mount Monadnock found his September 2009 Bigfoot stunt and the publicity it generated tacky for a mountain revered by literary giants Henry Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Doyle was captured when he returned to film "The Capture of Bigfoot."
Jonathan Doyle
Settles Copyright Case
Lime Wire
The operator of LimeWire, a once-popular file-sharing service shut down last year for copyright infringement, has settled a lawsuit brought by music publishers.
The settlement with Lime Wire LLC covers more than 30 publishers, including units of EMI Group, Sony Corp and Vivendi SA. The terms were not disclosed.
These publishers also dismissed claims against New York-based Lime Wire's founder, Mark Gorton. The case was dismissed with prejudice, meaning it cannot be brought again.
"A settlement was reached," a spokeswoman for the National Music Publishers Association said. "The parties worked hard to achieve a settlement that is a good result for all involved."
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PETA Protests Pigeon Racing
Mike Tyson
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals demonstrated outside former boxer Mike Tyson's suburban home to protest the former boxing champion's role in pigeon racing.
Henderson police spokesman Todd Rasmussen said Tuesday the PETA demonstration on Monday outside Tyson's gated hillside neighborhood was peaceful.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported that some of the 20 protesters carried signs reading, "Featherweights: No match for a Heavyweight," and "Mike doesn't give pigeons a fighting chance."
Tyson has been a pigeon racing breeder and fan since childhood in Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Celebrity Boxing Promoter Gets Probation
Damon Feldman
A celebrity boxing promoter accused of fixing fights and not having a license when he staged a Philadelphia area bout between "The Partridge Family" television star Danny Bonaduce and a comedian from the Howard Stern show has been placed on probation for two years as part of a plea deal.
Damon Feldman operated the Celebrity Boxing Federation. He pleaded no contest Monday in Delaware County to fixing fights and promoting fights without a license. He tells The Associated Press he'd have liked to fight the charges but "didn't want to take a chance."
The Philadelphia Daily News says Feldman is barred from promoting for two years. He also must pay $7,500 restitution.
Feldman calls the celebrity bouts "100 percent entertainment." He says he hopes to make a comeback.
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Mass Fish Death Fouls Marina
Redondo Beach
An estimated 1 million fish turned up dead Tuesday in a Southern California marina, creating a floating feast for pelicans, gulls and other sea life and a stinky mess for harbor authorities.
Boaters awakened to find a carpet of small silvery fish surrounding their vessels, said Staci Gabrielli, marine coordinator for King Harbor Marina on the Los Angeles County coast. Authorities said there was also a 12- to 18-inch layer of dead fish on the bottom of the marina.
California Fish and Game officials said the fish were sardines that apparently depleted the water of oxygen and suffocated.
Fire Department, Harbor Patrol and other city workers set to work scooping up fish in nets and buckets. A skip loader then carried them to big trash bins. Local officials initially estimated there were millions of fish, but Fish and Game roughly estimated about 1 million.
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Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by the Nielsen Co. for Feb. 28-March 6. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. "American Idol" (Thursday), Fox, 25.26 million.
2. "American Idol" (Wednesday), Fox, 22.77 million.
3. "American Idol" (Tuesday), Fox, 21.39 million.
4. "NCIS," CBS, 19.21 million.
5. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 15.67 million.
6. "Criminal Minds," CBS, 14.37 million.
7. "Secret Millionaire," ABC, 12.67 million.
8. "60 Minutes," CBS, 12.24 million.
9. "Two and a Half Men," CBS, 11.63 million.
10. "The Good Wife," CBS, 11.38 million.
11. "Desperate Housewives," ABC, 11.351 million.
12. "Mike & Molly," CBS, 11.35 million.
13. "The Bachelor," ABC, 11.33 million.
14. "Survivor: Redemption Island," CBS, 11.32 million.
15. "Undercover Boss," CBS, 11.09 million.
16. "House," Fox, 11.01 million.
17. "CSI: Miami," CBS, 10.65 million.
18. "The Mentalist," CBS, 10.43 million.
19. "Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior," CBS, 10.36 million.
20. "Castle," ABC, 10.11 million.
Ratings
In Memory
Mike Starr
Former Alice in Chains bass player Mike Starr, who went public with his drug problems on the reality TV show "Celebrity Rehab," was found dead in a Salt Lake City house, police said on Tuesday, nine years after the rock band's singer died of an overdose. Starr was 44.
A spokesman for the Salt Lake City Police Dept. said officers responded to call about a possible body at a residence southwest of downtown earlier in the afternoon.
"There is nothing to indicate that this was foul play by another individual," the spokesman said.
Starr left the band shortly after the release of its breakthrough 1992 album "Dirt," which was packed with drug-related songs.
With replacement Mike Inez on board, Alice in Chains enjoyed even greater success at the helm of the Seattle "grunge" movement. But singer Layne Staley's drug battles put the brakes on the band in 1996. His decomposed body was found in a Seattle apartment in April 2002. His bandmates have resurrected the band with some success in recent years.
Starr, meanwhile, largely disappeared. He re-emerged in January 2010 as a patient on the third season of "Celebrity Rehab," a VH1 reality show hosted by addiction specialist Dr. Drew Pinsky.
But Starr was unable to beat his demons. He was arrested in Salt Lake City three weeks ago on an outstanding warrant related to an earlier drugs charge, and was also carrying unauthorized prescription medications.
Mike Starr
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