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Signs that a band will suck

Posted by Martin Poulter on 1 July 2008

Damian draws my attention to Chicago-based discussion forum Electrical Audio, which has been discussing warning signs of really bad bands as well as sure signs a band will be awesome. In the first category:

  • “Bands playing in front of a large banner bearing their name and/or “logo” cannot possibly be good. This is science.”
  • “If the bass looks like an endangered hardwood dildo, you know straightaway that something awful is about to commence.”

Signs of awesomeness:

  • “Homemade gear of some kind; A bass with one pickup; Tape on the guitars; Fingerprints, sweatsalt, and/or blood on the guitars”
  • “If the singer has a broken arm or broken leg it’s always a good sign.”
  • “One of the band members being butt naked. I’ve never heard this happening and the show being bad.”

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Total Immersion Buffet

Posted by Paul Smith on 27 June 2008

Feeling a bit peckish? Get yourself along to this ‘interactive’ buffet where you can zoom, pan and salivate to your hearts content without gaining a pound!

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Beardyman beatboxing video remix

Posted by Martin Poulter on 25 June 2008

Beardyman’s looped beatboxing and mr_hopkinson’s video editing have a lot in common. They both loop small bits of content on top of each other in way which starts off simple but builds into something jaw-dropping. Here they are united: David Hopkinson filmed Beardyman at a beatboxing convention, edited the video into sync with the loops in his trademark style and showed off the result at his excellent session in the recent Venn festival.

(mr_hopkinson’s beatboxing vids featured previously on D’n'C)

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LEGO is full of WIN

Posted by Paul Ayres on 25 June 2008

More on LEGO, with a great 3 minute presentation on how it is changing the world …

… memo to self, must make use of the take a deep breath slide in future

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Boobs on bikes

Posted by Martin Poulter on 20 June 2008

D’n'C member Steve Richardson recently took part in the Manchester branch of the World Naked Bike Ride. Quote from the site: “we face automobile traffic with our naked bodies as the best way of defending our dignity…” Wait. What?

No, seriously, I for one welcome our nude bike-riding overlords. Apparently there are many photos on Flickr of WNBR from around the world, but I haven’t looked, for some reason.

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Why does asparagus make your wee smell?

Posted by glittrgirl on 11 June 2008

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Oh, I say!

Posted by Paul Ayres on 11 June 2008

It seems all things Lego are spreading across the Internets, the latest being recreating classic photographs.

Thought you would appreciate that one, knowing what big tennis fans most of you are ;-) Others in the set include the Hand of God, Lunch Atop a SkyScraper and Tiananmen Square.

Previously on Doodz ‘n’ Chyx other things Lego related.

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Graphic equaliser…

Posted by glittrgirl on 9 June 2008

Highly entertaining. How long must it have taken to make this video?

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Radiohead’s “Nude” remixed on old hardware

Posted by Martin Poulter on 7 June 2008

Radiohead offer a competition to remix one of the songs from their “In Rainbows” album, a slow waltz in fact. Now, do you get a pulsing beat and trigger sped-up samples from the song on top of it, or do you bring together a dot matrix printer, a scanner, a Sinclair Spectrum and lots of hard drives and program them to recreate the song on video?

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Martin Poulter remixed by ChanologyASSIST

Posted by Martin Poulter on 3 June 2008

I can not freakin’ BELIEVE this! ChanologyASSIST, an Atlanta-based video prankster previously featured on D’n'C, brings video, typography and madness together in a tribute to…

All hail ChanologyASSIST, the new leader of the internet! Worship him as a god!

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