Slate TV has put together a great mashup video showing how moonwalk was first popularised by Jacko, when dance moves back in the 1980 was nothing more than a bit of side swaying and merry clapping.
I think everyone who agrees he’s the biggest musical legend should learn how to moonwalk. However, if you do it, at least do it properly for Jacko’s sake and not commit yourself to a moonwalk fail like this one.
To me he’s best remembered by his out of the ordinary dance moves, smacking boogie tunes, and of course the unfading sounds like Eeeeheee! or Wooow!
R.I.P MJ!
Web’s top gem collector Urlesque has spotted this new kick-ass video from a London based We Have Band. Now, I’m a big fan of stop-motion films, but this is something of an intrinsic value, as it’s made from 4,816 individual stills. Created for the song “You Came Out” by some of the bands own members, the 3 minute animation goes well beyond anything I’ve seen, and truly fantabulous.
The band describes the process of making the video as painstaking, as everyone had to be hand-painted and shot over two days with mouth and lyric syncing to care about.
Nowadays evertything comes ready made even a website. Thanks to a selection of online DIY toolbox excluding all the CSS, Java, HTML nonsense you can now build a website for free and as quick as your kettle boils. So beat a web developer or two, and get cracking with building your own snazzy websites with the tools below!
SnapPages – this flash based drag and drop development tool allows you to create and manage a professional quality website from a ready-made templates. Pretty awesome tool and it gets several thumbs up from me.
Weebly – is a website as well as blog creation tool. Great thing about this tool is that it hosts your domain for free! It also lets you drag&dump videos, pictures, maps, and texts. Use it to purposefully and don’t put up second class content otherwise you look unprof and not the web developer.
BaseKit – currently in Alpha, according to company BaseKit offers a more dynamic and rich featured web creation, only quicker!
Edicy – another simple and straightforward tool that’s probably more useful if you have a small business needing more than just an online banner.
Viviti – lets you choose from over 100 templates or design your own. I’s also based on simple non-coded editing. Vivity also hosts your website for free once it’s published. You can also ad RSS feeds and other third party content from sites such as Youtube and Flickr.
Yola – is straightforward as putting up a picture frame on a wall. It doesn’t need you to write in ISO languages instead it creates you a page with a few fancy links in it.
This week we heard some shocking news announcement coming from the celeb village. Unless you’ve been completely media blind then you must have heard the front row celeb gossip about Katie and Peter’s decision to end their 3.5 year marriage.
Usually I don’t give a full attention to celebrity splits and the subsequent court dramas it brings, but this one almost hit some of us hard on the head that we feel somewhat upset and derailed. Of course everyone must be making their own assumptions at this difficult time, but for me this is another reason to believe that celeb marriages aren’t always made in heaven, and that we should always lower our expecations to celeb couplings, otherwise we might not be able to get out of this recession sooner than we hoped 
Below is what a stuckist or remodernist artist MarkD had to say about their split.
Katie Price & Peter Andre: Couldn't Give a Shit What Katie Does Next by Mark D
Boxxy’s one of my fav Youtube personalities, a goofy teen girl who made millions of us spellbound with her weird webcam blasting traits. However, since the public and media have discovered her, it seems she’s no longer braving an appearance on her Youtube channel boxxybabee. I know that some people have questioned her real identity and whether she was a yet another LonelyGirl15 type of character, but after hudreds of memes, and over 41,000 subbers, has she dissapeared off the face of Youtube for good?!, surely not. Below is a video by RocketBoom explaining who Boxxy is and why we care about her.
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An award winning social anthropologists and creative animators at London Squared production has recently made this intriguing piece of stop-motion animation featuring real interview with sub-ethnic New Yorkers discussing their lives as minority citizens of the worlds biggest cosmopoilitan city. I mean, what’s better way to describe NY other than asking its citizens?
(Via Social Creature)
I don’t know how 3D videos are possible, especially if you’re watching it on youtube. But some experi-mentalists have come up with ways to bring in a proper 3D cinematic experience on your laptop screen! which means you can now watch weird and wonderful video footage of people showing their extraordinarily boring experiments in 3D. Alas, I could only wish Chocolate Rain was in 3D.
Anyway, here are some rich pickings of 3D vids, if you don’t have funky red and blue glasses then bigwazo shows you how to make a pair.
And this guy tells exactly how you do it…
Someone with little crafty fingers has found a genious way to reuse cassettes for art purposes. Unlike me, who used to make hair extensions out of old cassette tapes, a budding artist Iri5 has created something much more meaningful out of them cobalt tapes, a portrait of Jimi Hendrix!
Seek out for yourself, and see more tape portraits of rock legends here
Somewhere in the clouds of news stories on the web, I found BoingBoing wrote about some interesting bit of research done by a PhD student Danah Boyd. In a catchy titled research called “Social Media is Here to Stay… Now What?”, Danah neatly reiterated the fact that Social Media is what we need in order for us to satisfy our undying need for conversation and communal cohesion as well as our desire to explore, share and express.
In the research, she also talks about five properties of social media and three dynamics, as quoted below.
1. Persistence. What you say sticks around. This is great for asynchronicity, not so great when everything you’ve ever said has gone down on your permanent record. The bits-wise nature of social media means that a great deal of content produced through social media is persistent by default.
2. Replicability. You can copy and paste a conversation from one medium to another, adding to the persistent nature of it. This is great for being able to share information, but it is also at the crux of rumor-spreading. Worse: while you can replicate a conversation, it’s much easier to alter what’s been said than to confirm that it’s an accurate portrayal of the original conversation.
3. Searchability. My mother would’ve loved to scream search into the air and figure out where I’d run off with friends. She couldn’t; I’m quite thankful. But with social media, it’s quite easy to track someone down or to find someone as a result of searching for content. Search changes the landscape, making information available at our fingertips. This is great in some circumstances, but when trying to avoid those who hold power over you, it may be less than ideal.
4. Scalability. Social media scales things in new ways. Conversations that were intended for just a friend or two might spiral out of control and scale to the entire school or, if it is especially embarrassing, the whole world. Of course, just because something can scale doesn’t mean that it will. Politicians and marketers have learned this one the hard way.
5. (de)locatability. With the mobile, you are dislocated from any particular point in space, but at the same time, location-based technologies make location much more relevant. This paradox means that we are simultaneously more and less connected to physical space.
Those five properties are intertwined, she says, and their implications also carry following three social dynamics.
1. Invisible Audiences. We are used to being able to assess the people around us when we’re speaking. We adjust what we’re saying to account for the audience. Social media introduces all sorts of invisible audiences. There are lurkers who are present at the moment but whom we cannot see, but there are also visitors who access our content at a later date or in a different environment than where we first produced them. As a result, we are having to present ourselves and communicate without fully understanding the potential or actual audience. The potential invisible audiences can be stifling. Of course, there’s plenty of room to put your head in the sand and pretend like those people don’t really exist.
2. Collapsed Contexts. Connected to this is the collapsing of contexts. In choosing what to say when, we account for both the audience and the context more generally. Some behaviors are appropriate in one context but not another, in front of one audience but not others. Social media brings all of these contexts crashing into one another and it’s often difficult to figure out what’s appropriate, let alone what can be understood.
3. Blurring of Public and Private. Finally, there’s the blurring of public and private. These distinctions are normally structured around audience and context with certain places or conversations being “public” or “private.” These distinctions are much harder to manage when you have to contend with the shifts in how the environment is organized.
I’ve just happened to discover the incredibly talented Kutiman, who runs the pioneering music project called Thru You, whereby he remixes various Youtube UGC videos to make a highly original multi-genre (modern acid jazz, funk, rock, soul and hip-hop) music. Kutiman essentially brought together the first ever Youtube music band consisting of various different bedroom talents and Youtube millenials, thus orchestrating a real collaborative, ankle popping music!
Check out his latest remix video to see how it’s done.
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