Quality graffiti animation by Blu

It's rare (for me anyway) to watch a ten minute youtube video to the end but this is WELL worth it, particularly the amazing water tower soldier bit near the end:



http://blublu.org/sito/updates/updates.htm

Major Lazer's guide to Daggering

If you ain't sure what Daggering is.. fear not! Major Lazer has put togeether this neat little instructional video for you. Sit back and let Skerrit Bwoy show you how it's done, perhaps find a work coleague to practice with and you can bust it out for the weekend and impress your friends. Find out more about daggering here and see it for real here.

Rap against Rape - 90's Ireland doing the rap music.

Fly like an Eagle

According to my dear friend Flange, this guy is my doppelganger... I can't argue with that. Whopper tune too.

New Tiga Vid

Not sure about the song but this new video from Tiga is amazing. Check out these behind the scenes green screen shots from Jane Stockdale too.

Tiga 'What You Need' from Cassiano Prado on Vimeo.

Great vid but this track is much more up my street.

Tiga - Shoes from moho on Vimeo.

2 great videos/ tunes from Japanese band Omodaka

(According to their myspace) Omodaka is the name of the project developed through a trial and error process of mutational fusion of music and motion graphics. It will knock over your existing image toward a music video by a beautiful trajectory.



Yosawya san: old school computer graphics and sounds to match:



( I recommend watching it in high def over on youtube)


This one seems to just be called music school orchestra - the video is nuts and the song is catchy as:



(Nerd alert: Although at first glance that appears to be a teenage mutant ninja turtle to our uncultured western eyes, it's actually a kappa - a mischievous Japanese water sprite that eats children. Which seems a little bit more than mischief)

http://www.myspace.com/omodakafareastrecordings

Datarock - Smile for the camera!

More from genius American kids' tv show YO! Gabba Gabba - this time Datarock are getting kids to smile for the camera - it's a pretty catchy tune as per usual:



I won't harp on about how amazing (and wasted on stupid kids) that show is anymore. But it is. And check out Chromeo, Of Montreal and Money Mark on YO! Gabba Gabba in previous posts if you haven't before.

www.myspace.com/datarock
www.datarockmusic.com

tank fly boss walk jam nitty gritty you're listening to the boy from the big bad city, this is jam hot, this is jam hot

Another reworking by The Revenge - I listened to his mix of Sister Sledge's 'Lost in Music' (that Chewy posted here) a lot last year and I've already listened to this one of 'Just Be Good To Me' a lot too. That song is originally by The SOS Band but I only know it from Beats International's version 'Dub Be Good To Me' from 1990. In case you need reminding of how great that was check out the video here.

You can listen to The Revenge - Just be Good To Me feat. Danielle Moore here.

Check out a cool piece on The Revenge at junodownload.com where you can listen to his top tunes of 2009, and his myspace: http://www.myspace.com/skyrocketideas

Beardyman's Time Travel Top Tens: 1997

More ridiculousness from Beardyman - stuck in the past with his malfunctioning sound sampling time machine - the flux capacitor will only work if the top ten is inputted from his destination year, and it's not even a year he wants to go to anyway:

Omar! Is that you?

Even I know The Wire is the best thing ever. And that Omar is also the best thing ever. The only video I could find with Omar that didn't have some kind of spoilers in it was this montage which is initially amusing but turns out to be quite mesmerising and does somewhat capture him:



So kudos to the actor Michael K. Williams for being so amazing. And DOUBLE kudos to him for ALSO starring as James the cop in R.Kelly's supreme hip-hopera opus Trapped in the Closet. Yes, remember that little gem?! James the cop is going out with a lady called Bridget who is having an affair with a midget (R.Kelly's got mad rhyming skillz) - and if you don't remember it or haven't seen it - behold it in all its dramatic majesty:



According to his wiki page, Michael K. Williams got his awesome facial scar in a fight on his 25th birthday, which would have been in 1991. I know it's kind of fuzzy but it doesn't look like he has the scar in the R.Kelly video which was produced in 2005. What gives, internet? I'm not even going to consider the possibility wikipedia isn't made of 100 per cent true science facts because my whole belief system would crumble. The mystery just makes me more enamoured.

You can watch more of Trapped in the Closet on youtube but really what you should be doing is going and buying all 5 series of The Wire here. I was going to end there with an Omar-esque "You feel me?" but clearly I could never pull that off.

Bobby McFerrin - who knew?! Everyone, apart from me, clearly.

Up until very recently if you had said the name Bobby McFerrin to me I would have thought of that 80s 'Don't Worry, Be Happy' tune, and not very favourably at that probably. But a friend sent me the following video of a talk he did at a science (stay with me now) fair last year and as Hansel would say it changed my whole perspective on shit: check it out, it's so good:



So it turns out Bobby McFerrin is a musical legend - his parents were classical singers and he has won 10 grammys and did the theme for The Cosby Show (season 4) and he's a world famous conductor and has his own vocal orchestra and is currently writing an opera among other things. Boy, is my face red. Check out his wiki page if, you know, you aren't feeling quite under-achievery enough this fine January. Actually, scratch that - check out this video instead - it will make you feel much better. Just him on a stage singing 'Thinking About Your Body' and playing himself like a funky theremin:



Thinking About Your Body - Bobby McFerrin mp3 (Yousendit)

http://www.bobbymcferrin.com/

ClimaXXX XXXmas Count-UP no.14: Scrooged

"I've never liked a girl enough to give her 12 sharp knives"
Scrooged is my favourite Christmas movie. Even more so than Silent Night Deadly Night. I obviously can't do it justice so check this top 10 moments video out:



SO - there you go. A Climaxxx Top 14 Christmas Count - UP. Have a cool yule and normal programming will resume soon!

ClimaXXX XXXmas Countdown no.13: National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

"What are you looking at?"
"Oh, the silent majesty of a winter's morn, the clean cool chill of the holiday air, and an asshole in his bathrobe, emptying a chemical toilet into my sewer..."





Today's the day! Happy Christmas!
And yes I fully realise a countdown where the numbers go up instead of down kind of defeats the purpose but I'm a very badly organised person. And it was in no particular order. But National Lamppoon's Christmas Vacation is my second choice - the next one is my very favourite.

ClimaXXX XXXmas Countdown no.12: Gremlins

So some guy made the following video for a girl he loves asking her to come back to him. It's a Gremlins montage set to Christmas music and it's even got the gremlins theme tune at the end so I'm presuming he did something pretty bad. But the video is great. Hope it worked out for him:



Uh, still 1 day to go!

ClimaXXX XXXmas Countdown no.11: Trading Places

Trading Places - who can forget Louis Winthorpe III (Dan Ackroyd) showing up at the Christmas party stuffing a large smoked salmon into his grey beard and then eating it on the bus:



And just in case you're STILL not in a Christmassy spirit:



1 day to go!

ClimaXXX XXXmas Countdown no.10: Planes, Trains and Automibiles

Ok, ok, so technically Planes, Trains and Automobiles is about getting home for Thanksgiving but I only just realised this when watching it a while after John Hughes died. In my brain it may as well be about Christmas because it's all cold and snowy and about togetherness and (be warned) Steve Martin cursing his head off:



This is also pretty Christmassy:



And this:



only 2 days to go!

ClimaXXX XXXmas Countdown no.9: Nightmare before Christmas

Nightmare before Christmas combines a lot of my favourite things - (Hallowe'en, Christmas, claymation, musicals) into one sweet deal of a movie. This song is sung by Jack Skellington ( who is from Hallowe'en Town) when he discovers Christmas Town:



This clip is after Jack has kidnapped Santa and taken over the job:



You can buy the DVD here for just € 4.69


3 days to go!

ClimaXXX XXXmas Countdown no.8: Elf

I'm so behind the times. Apparently yesterday (the 18th) was Answer The Phone Like Buddy The Elf Day. This is the kind of important thing you miss when you're not on Facebook. I also really miss the social intricacies involved in ignoring people that you met at that party and really clicked with but who you, let's face it, in the cold light of day, have no interest in ever talking to again even though they keep messaging you and posting photos of you off your bleedin' bracket on your manager's page. Bah Humbug! (Saying that makes your rant Christmassy and therefore acceptable.)

Anyway - Back to Buddy the Elf:







6 days to go!

ClimaXXX XXXmas Countdown no.6: The Snowman Dubstep remix

The title says it all really:



If you are loving that, which I strangely am, you can download a 320mp3 here: http://www.sendspace.com/file/m3fe98.
Check out http://www.myspace.com/hereldeduke for more (unfortunately non seasonal) dubstep.

Woo! 9 days to go!

Climaxxx xxxmas Countdown no.5: Beardyman's Christmas Message

I love Beardyman. Watch with suitable glee as he explains the true meaning of Christmas (with pretty bad language - be warned), rolls a seasonal joint and is generally just a big amazing weirdo:



Did I mention I love him? You can't spell Beardyman without DREAMY.


www.myspace.com/beardyman

(15 days to go)