28 November 09 - 18:12Underworld wires tallest building Dublin up with 100,000 led lights for new video

Great idea: Wire up the tallest and ugliest building in Dublin with 100,000 led lights and let it synchronize with the new single of Underworld. Nostalgic tune!

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22 November 09 - 18:37How auto-tune has become one of the hottest brands in the US

Everybody knows the sound of auto-tune by now. But where does it come from? Popular news blog Rocket Boom has made a funny overview of the history of auto-tune:

In the US auto-tune has become a nation wide hype. Watch the very funny gimmick in the huge popular The Ellen DeGeneres Show (Why don't they broadcast this in the Netherlands?):

Try it yourself? Check out the demo of Auto-Tune from Antares Or, do it the iPhone way.

And of course, when a hype starts, it began on YouTube:

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21 November 09 - 19:30Sounds great and looks great: The new video of Digitalism, Jupiter Room

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14 November 09 - 19:13Inspiring remix of eighties television series Cosmos featuring astronomer Carl Sagan

It looks like I am in my space oriented period now. Last week I watched on a movie channel 2001: A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick. I hadn't seen the movie for more than ten years. The stylistic capabilities of Kubrick are still striking. They make me very conscious of the infinity of space. A couple of days later i found by accident the remix of Carl Sagan's Cosmos, a popular scientific television series from the eighties presented by world famous astronomer Carl Sagan. Amongst others he was trainer and advisor of the Apollo 11 crew who landed in 1969 on the moon.

Again I was struck by the great stylistic approach of the television series from the eighties. It forces to think beyond the safe common sense. It's strange that in our times there is less attention for the spiritual beauty of our universe. It's merely about religions and their clashes than about our scientific chances in the universe. I personally get much more relief from the predictive words of Carl Sagan:

A still more glorious dawn awaits

Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise

A morning filled with 400 billion suns

The rising of the milky way

Watch the very nice remix of the televison series Cosmos by Melody Sheep/John Boswell:

Watch also the very interesting gathering of a.o. Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking. Especially the argument of not asking fundamental questions anymore:

And last but not least. The second video of John Boswell's project 'Symphony of Science':

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