Once again John Boswell over at Symphony Of Science has crafted an inspiring bit of music-science mashuppery.
Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em.
Boswell uses parts of the extraordinary TED talk given by Jill Bolte-Taylor recounting her personal insights into how the brain functions – as well as footage of V. S. Ramachandran’s TED talk although I preferred his more indepth (and lengthy) Reith lectures on The Emerging Mind.
All good stuff. I give it a nine for the beat, Dick.
My friend Fred sent me to Chris Hardwick’s Nerdist blog where I found this great music video mashup of Saint George Carlin. This remix was done by Steve Porter and Eli Wilkie, who have made it available – with a bunch of other stuff – over at Porterhouse Media.
Carlin doesn’t really need to be mashed up – his words are music enough on their own – but it’s always fun to see the brilliant, scathing, clever, insightful curmudgeon doing what he does best: fuck with language.
Cheers.
P. S. Well, this is weird – I was going to attach some links to my previous blog posts about Carlin (I’ve made a few) but they all seem to have disappeared. Please tell me I wasn’t just hallucinating these past few years and that I actually did write stuff about Carlin. But if so – where the fuck did it go?
John Boswell at Symphony Of Science has released another wonderful music video featuring Carl Sagan and 11 other scientific minds celebrating how science changes our point of view of the world and universe we live in – or, as Richard Dawkins croons: “Science is the poetry of reality.”
This is the second in a series of fucking awesome music mash-ups featuring Carl Sagan, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Bill Nye, Stephen Hawking and the sublime Richard Feynman. The first one was great but this one is just fucking awesome.
They speak of great cosmological concepts – but it’s all been set to a beat and their voices have been auto-tuned to craft a melody which assists in imparting the joy and vision they share in the knowledge they have reaped from their studies of our planet and it’s place in the universe.
You can find the lyrics assembled on the YouTube page or you can visit the Symphony Of Science pages where you can learn more about this John Boswell project.
I'm going to be slowly making some changes to the website both in format and content - and I'm pretty sure even the URL will change.
It's going to be more of a personal news aggregator with a featured video blog from yours truly. We'll see how long that lasts. So bear with me - thanks.