Films

Incarcerated Monome Scratch

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Primus Maximus (of Digital Dust) put up this video of him using a device called a Monome. He reworks Raekwon’s “Incarcerated Scarfaces” and adds some scratching to make a chilled out version. On the YouTube version, he adds this:

Download our Digital Dust Mix made on monomes here:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php…

Sampled Skull Snaps drums & El Mitchels Affair horns & Guitar

So I dug a little more to found out more about the Monome and came across this at monome.org:

each is a reconfigurable grid of backlit keypads which connects to a computer. interaction between the keys and lights is determined by the application running on the computer. there is no hard-wired functionality.

and can be used for:

live sample cutters, math simulations, drum machines, generative controllers, tonal maps, games, visualizations.

Yes I internet dig so you don’t have to. Also download that Digital Dust Mix it is nice and now go enjoy the video.

Primus Maximus On Monome and Scratching: Video

Illusion Optique: French B-Boys

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Mini clip du groupe de street “illusion optique” sur qui un film documentaire est en preparation

Here is what I got from the French To English translation:
Mini clip of the group of street ” illusion optique” on which a documentary film is in preparation

The guys in the group are: Alfie, Dadj, Krilin, Yeyo, Colonel and they are a B-boy group that perform on the streets of France. Hip-hop is alive and well through out the world.

Illusion Optique: Video

Sandman Buries His Lightning Rod

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Oh Word had posted up this video for Homeboy Sandman called, “Lightning Bolt. Lightning Rod.” the other day and I knew the name sounded familiar. So I checked my music catalog and found him featured on the free PH (formerly known as Pumpkin Head) mixtape, My Era (No Skinny Jeans Allowed). With a little more digging I found the “Director’s Commentary” of the video with director Naheem Adio Kujenya adding comments to the video. One nice things to find out is that some of the extras in the video are emcees themselves.

Artist: Homeboy Sandman
Song: Lightning Bolt. Lightning Rod.
Album: Actual Factual Pterodactyl
Director: Naheem Adio Kujenya
Cinematographer: Travis Davis

Homeboy Sandman - Lightning Bolt. Lightning Rod.: Video

Open Movie Of The Moment

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Big Buck Bunny the second “open movie” after previously mentioned Elephants Dream from the Blender Foundation. Just like the first one they have included all of the production files for aspiring artists to use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license. Also for the first time, Blender is releasing Big Buck Bunny and Elephants Dream together on Blu-ray. Big Buck Bunny revolves around three sinister hamsters (rodents?) messing with a large bunny and the large bunny exacting his revenge on the three culprits. Enjoy on Vimeo HD (below) then go get it in portable, higher or Blu-ray format on the Big Buck Bunny website.

Big Buck Bunny: Open Movie