VAMPIRE WEEKEND

Spent my saturday sleeping after I’ve seen Vampire weekend at an accoustic session yesterday night in a breath-taking Parisian apartment. Here is their new song “Horchata”, they performed it twice.

The video of that “soirée de poche” should be fantastic. I cried. Twice.

LISTEN

Mixtape meet music explanations.

French Group PHOENIX.

xx

librarysciences:

Dear Steve McQueen, sigh.

What the fuck happened to the Twilight people? They think they can put some really nice music in a very shitty movie. Bad bad bad bad.

amandalynferri:

andrewfutral:

. Death Cab For Cutie – Meet Me On The Equinox
2. Band Of Skulls – Friends
3. Thom Yorke- Hearing Damage <— WHAT?
4. Lykke Li – Possibility
5. The Killers - A White Demon Love Song
6. Anya Marina – Satellite Heart
7. Muse - I Belong To You (New Moon Remix)
8. Bon Iver and St. Vincent – Rosyln <— WHAT??
9. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Done All Wrong
10. Hurricane Bells – Monsters
11. Sea Wolf – The Violet Hour
12. Ok Go- Shooting The Moon
13. Grizzly Bear - Slow Life <— WHAT?
14. Editors – No Sound But The Wind
15. Alexandre Desplat – New Moon (The Meadow)

NOT ENOUGH PARAMORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Soirée de poche (or how to put a concert/accoustic session on your blog and it rocks)

This video is probably one of the most beautiful accoustic session I have ever seen. Ok I may sound over enthusiastic but just click play and you’ll figure out what I meant.

Andrew Bird is obviously a talented singer/violin player/whistler but that’s the second part I like the most. Because St. Vincent (Annie Clark) does a duet with him and there’s something happening. A unique music thing. That could not happen twice.

Of course it’s brilliantly shot, in a Parisian appartment, which brings an even more peculiar atmosphere. And the light just add more intensity to the whole thing.

WATCH IT. Oh and RE-WATCH IT.

Courtesy of ArteLiveWeb and La Blogothèque

Personas is a component of the Metropath(ologies) exhibit, currently on display at the MIT Museum by the Sociable Media Group from the MIT Media Lab. It uses sophisticated natural language processing and the Internet to create a data portrait of one’s aggregated online identity. In short, Personas shows you how the Internet sees you.

Enter your name, and Personas scours the web for information and attempts to characterize the person - to fit them to a predetermined set of categories that an algorithmic process created from a massive corpus of data. The computational process is visualized with each stage of the analysis, finally resulting in the presentation of a seemingly authoritative personal profile.

In a world where fortunes are sought through data-mining vast information repositories, the computer is our indispensable but far from infallible assistant. Personas demonstrates the computer’s uncanny insights and its inadverten errors, such as the mischaracterizations caudes by the inability to separate data from multiple owners of the same name.

It is meant for the viewer to reflect on our current and future world, where digital histories are as important if not more important than oral histories, and computational methods of condensing our digital traces are opaque and socially ignorant.

Personas was created by Aaron Zinman, with help from Alex Dragulescu, Yannick Assogba and Judith Donath.

In the journalism of today, the personal brand is becoming increasingly central to the prospects of a young person starting out on a life of reporting. So it is important for students at journalism school, and those starting in the fall, to develop the professional brand that will set them apart come graduation. Some reporters may bristle at the idea of thinking of themselves as a brand, considering it the equivalent of selling out. This overlooks the fact that a journalist’s identity has always been a part of the job, otherwise why have bylines?

via meghanasha

La Route du Rock

This week end I was lucky enough to go to La Route du rock. Thanks to my truly cool collegues at Arte live web, I am at this splendid, bloody fucking good rock Festival and discovered some pretty cool people. Like St Vincent, the girl is solo. She rocks. Just check what she does.

While I am there I can watch every single gig with access to backstage whenever I want.

See below a little gig recorded on the beach of Saint Malo with Marissa Nadler. Kinda cool.

Courtesy of ARTE Live Web and La Blogotheque

Best quotes from media experts saying I have no future.

Voilà.