The 50 Greatest Arts Videos on YouTube

in Art, Literature, Music, Video - Arts & Culture, YouTube | September 1st, 2008

One of our British read­ers turned us on to this post by the Guardian, not­ing that they took a page from our gen­er­al play­book. The post fea­tures 50 of the best YouTube clips from across the arts, some of which we’ve fea­tured here in the past. Among the videos, you’ll find vin­tage per­for­mances by John Coltrane and Bil­lie Hol­i­day, read­ings by Jack Ker­ouac, an inter­view with Eugène Ionesco, clips of Nir­vana rehears­ing in a garage, Vladimir Nabokov talk­ing about Loli­ta, Jack­son Pol­lock drip­ping paint out­side his home, and Mar­lon Bran­do doing a screen test for Rebel With­out a Cause. We have post­ed the Bran­do clip below. There are some def­i­nite gems here. Now dive in. And don’t for­get to work through our YouTube playlist and our piece 70 Signs of Intel­li­gent Life at YouTube, where you’ll find enrich­ing video col­lec­tions.

Thanks Stephen for the tip. And read­ers, keep the good rec­om­men­da­tions com­ing!

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Isaac Hayes Performs Shaft Live, 1973

in Music, Video - Arts & Culture | August 10th, 2008

We lost anoth­er good one:

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Radiohead: Making Videos Without Cameras (or Lights)

in Music, Video - Arts & Culture | July 17th, 2008

In Radio­head­’s new video for “House of Cards”, no cam­eras or lights were used. Instead “3D plot­ting tech­nolo­gies col­lect­ed infor­ma­tion about the shapes and rel­a­tive dis­tances of objects.” And the video was made entire­ly with visu­al­iza­tions of that data. You can watch the video below and find out more about the mak­ing of the video here.

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Find Any Song Online and Share. Now.

in Music | June 30th, 2008

Tinysong.com offers a ser­vice that’s rather impres­sive. You go to their home­page, search for a song, and then you can lis­ten to it online and share it with a friend (via a spe­cial­ly cre­at­ed url). Just how it all works (copy­right includ­ed), and just how deep the col­lec­tion actu­al­ly goes, I am not total­ly sure. But, the var­i­ous tests that I threw at it sug­gest that there’s a fair amount of depth there.

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Zurich Chamber Orchestra Animated on YouTube

in Music, Video - Arts & Culture, YouTube | June 22nd, 2008

The Roller Coast­er…

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File This Under “I Don’t Get It”

in Music | June 14th, 2008

YouTube is high­light­ing today a video that fea­tures a young girl play­ing Mozart around the world. Hence, the video’s title “Where in Heav­en is Mozart?” Now, the idea is nice. But why is Pachel­bel’s Canon the sound­track for the clip? Is Eine kleine Nacht­musik no longer rec­og­niz­able enough? Kind of sug­gests that we’ve offi­cial­ly achieved Pachel­bel Overkill (if it did­n’t hap­pen long, long ago). Per­haps this explains why you can now find com­ic rants against P’s Canon on YouTube as well.

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Remembering Bo Diddley on YouTube

in Music | June 3rd, 2008

Pio­neer­ing gui­tarist Bo Did­dley passed away yes­ter­day at 79. You can find a nice video trib­ute here. Among them, you’ll find this good old chest­nut:

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Robot Conducts The Detroit Symphony Orchestra

in Music, Random | May 28th, 2008

File this under “Ran­dom” …

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