Kutiman - Remixing YouTube

Posted by Troy on November 9, 2009 10:49

One of the greatest things I've seen in recent memory has been the amazing Kutiman videos...what he is doing is such a brilliant, simple idea, and the results have been fantastic!

Kutiman is an Israeli...what....musician?  (Web Designer?  How do you classify something like this?)  That takes YouTube videos and layers them / splices them / remixes them to create entirely new songs.  Honestly, it's probably best if he just explains:

I've explored his site, Thru You, from top to bottom. I can only hope he has more coming, because quite frankly, seven videos are just not enough. I could watch and listen to his stuff all day.

Here is the video that is probably my favorite, entitled "Babylon Band"

Finally Installed an Akismet Extension!

Posted by Troy on August 25, 2009 20:37

Been a while since I've been on here, but I was shocked when I checked it recently to find dozens of comments!  "Wow," I thought, "I'm famous!"  Of course, that isn't even remotely true, and when I went to check them, it turns out they were all comment spam!  Nice.

Apparently, the big spam comment trend is Uggs...those hideous, hairy boots?  For a short time, popmatic.com was quite high in the "uggs" search results, I had so many references to it in my comments.  Swell.

So, I finally got off my butt and installed askimet for blogengine, which was so simple, I'm a little embarrassed I didn't do it before.  One day I'll learn.

My Prayers Have Been Answered!

Posted by Troy on July 23, 2009 14:34

I spend a lot of time on the web...a lot of time.  So, you can imagine how many times a day I stare at iGoogle, my default homepage.  I've loved the fact that Google has given us the ability to skin this page, but today they truly have outdone themselves...iGoogle comic book themes.

I picked the Hellboy theme, because hey...you just can't beat Mike Mignola when it comes to pretty pictures, but there are a ton of beautiful themes out there.

 Perhaps best of all, the themes include at least one or two that I've never heard of before and that I can't wait to check out...the art of Lark Pien looks wonderful (I love the header with all the peanut butter & jelly sandwiches!) and the Children of the Sea art blows my socks off.  So yeah.  It's been a good day.  =)