Entries Tagged as 'music'

Sunday, November 30th, 2014

Pyro Board: Visualizing Music With Fire

The folks over at Fysikshow have upped the game when it comes to using fire to visualize music—taking the Rubens’ tube (google it) and turning it all the way up to 11, they’ve made the Pyro Board which features 2,500 holes to give fire-breathing life to whatever sound they want.

Monday, November 24th, 2014

Music Video Visualizes Sound Using the Power of Science

Cymatics is the science of visualizing sound through its audio vibrations—and New Zealand musician Nigel Stanford uses a variety of experiments to show how it works. For different components of the track Stanford uses different materials to visualise them, so we can a large variety of mesmerizing images.

Tuesday, November 18th, 2014

Here’s Your WTF Chinese Music Video of the Day

Even without the visuals of half-naked men in horse masks and chicken costumes and women dancing behind a giant band-aid, the lyrics to this song are enough to make you sit up and think, WTF? Because they mainly consist of the female singer making cluck-cluck chicken noises.

Wednesday, November 12th, 2014

Taylor Swift Synced With a 1980s Workout Video is Hilariously Perfect

Sometimes things just go together, it’s not that they’re meant go together but somehow, through some weird synchronicity, they just fit so well it’s like the yin has met its yang. And this mashup of Taylor Swift’s track “Shake It Off” with a spandex-clad 1980s aerobics video is one of those times.

Friday, November 7th, 2014

Music Video Made Entirely From Office Stock Footage

On paper it probably sounds like it wouldn’t work, but in reality it works incredibly well—it’s a rap music video made entirely from stock footage of business people in an office, turning around and grinning like Cheshire cats or staring awkwardly at the camera. A little added distortion effects helps matters too.

Wednesday, November 5th, 2014

Watch Flying Lotus’ Very NSFW New Music Video

Make sure the boss isn’t standing behind you when you press play on this video, which is a graphic animation by David Firth for Flying Lotus’ track “Ready Err Not.” In it Mr Lotus gets beheaded while walking about a creepy house, and lots of other spookiness occurs too to gross you out.

Sunday, November 2nd, 2014

That Slowpoke Pokemon Reggae Song Gets a New Music Video

A few months back Pokemon released a reggae music video, and the internet responded with appropriate WTFness. And now another video for the same track has come out, this time featuring Japanese musician Tomoaki Imakuni dressed in a Slowpoke costume miming along to the lyrics and generally acting weird.

Thursday, October 30th, 2014

Avengers: My Ultron Will Go On—Avengers Trailer Mashup

If you thought the original Avengers: Age of Ultron trailer wasn’t emotional enough, what with the gang looking all moody and despondent, then this mashup should make things clear. Gone is the creepy James Spader voiceover and unnerving version of Pinocchio’s “I’ve Got No Strings,” to be replaced by Céline Dion’s “My Heart Will Go [...]

Monday, October 27th, 2014

This Anime Music Video is Nothing But Good Clean Fun

If your idea of a great way to spend three and a half minutes is to watch a bunch of anime characters sing a song about a rubber duck while taking a bath together, then today is the day you get to do just that. If you’re aware of anime music videos (AMVs) then you’ll [...]

Monday, October 20th, 2014

Watch Claymation Master Lee Hardcastle’s Insane Music Video

You may or may not have heard of London-based band USA NAILS and their track “Am I A Man Or Not?”, but that doesn’t really matter, because what matters is the WTF music video that accompanies it, which is made by British claymation supremo Lee Hardcastle. It’s bizarre.

Sunday, October 19th, 2014

Beatbox Brilliance: Tom Thum at TEDxSydney

Some people are amazing. This is Tom Thum and with just a microphone at his disposal he does some incredible things with the human voice and creates some amazing soundtracks of insane beats and mind-boggling sounds, including scratched vinyl, the Michael Jackson back-catalogue, the didgeridoo and an entire fifties jazz band amongst his vocal repertoire. [...]