That’s how it’s done folks. #Adele
Very sad news about Whitney Houston. I Wanna Dance With Somebody will play long and hard on repeat tonight. #IWillAlwaysLoveYou
It would be difficult to dispel ignorance unless there is freedom to pursue the truth unfettered by fear.
Aung San Suu Kyi
Seems like a good strategy.
(via Erik Mallinson)
Source: minimalmac
Great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.
Total Pop Mayhem (The NYE Mixtape)
Cuban expression artist “El Sexto” Danilo Maldonado’s beautiful tribute to the late human rights activist Laura Pollán. #Libertad #Cuba
Here Come the Year-End Mashups!
It really is the most wonderful time of the year: Christmas season in full-swing, and an onslaught of awesome mashups are released into the wild. This month the music industry is looking back and rounding up the year’s best, but gone are the days where we looked solely to VH1, MTV, TRL, Billboard magazine, and your local Clear Channel monopoly to reminisce about the artists who ruled the charts. In the emerging social music experience developing online through YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and apps like Spotify and Turntable.fm, the most exciting byproduct has been the explosion of the mashup genre.
Take a look at Mashup-Germany’s latest - an incredible mashup featuring 29 of this year’s hottest songs - just released. Many others will follow suit this month. But if you’re looking for the best, look no further than reigning mad scientist DJ Earworm. His annual “United State of Pop” usually drops right around Christmas and crushes his peers, putting everyone’s seemingly remarkable attempts to shame.
USPOP is not simply a mashup. Anyone with a good ear for music can pick up on the recurring chord progressions common in many pop songs. With some skill, ingenuity and a good muse, many will create beautiful symphonies out of multiple club beats and synthesizers. What makes Earworm’s annual monstrosity so unique is that he really creates an entirely new song: impressively fluid lyrics and instrumentation that connect the year’s songs with a common theme for the grand purpose of pure pop mayhem (see video after the jump):
Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.
