Wintergatan - Marble Machine (music instrument using 2000 marbles)

Lurpak | Lightest

This is just sweet.

Lurpak - Lightest from Blink on Vimeo.

Art-List.io & Musicbed Vintage

Over the past few years, we've patronized a few different royalty free music services. Just to add fuel to the fire, here are two new developments in the world of music for film...

Art-List.io is offering unlimited royalty-free tracks for an annual subscription of $199. I don't know about you but I feel like I've definitely spent two hundred bones on music just in the past few months.

Art-list - Inspiring Music For Your Films from Art-list.io on Vimeo.

And more good news from the Musicbed. They've successfully collaborated with Sun Records and you can now license music from artists like Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, and Jerry Lee Lewis starting at $49.

Making Music More Accessible from Musicbed on Vimeo.

Legend of Nurse Karen

The Legend of Nurse Karen from robbie conaway on Vimeo.

puppets + applied learning = applicable 

How Interstellar's Score Was Made

Too Many Cooks

It takes a lot to make a stew...

Dude shreds a traditional folk instrument

Podington Bear

I referenced in my last post, Podington Bear A.K.A. Chris Crouch, has been the Tree City Films Festival's sort of go-to artist in reference to the music we use for our demo reels, tutorials, and interviews. In the realm of royalty-free music, it's hard to come by great music created by great people and Podington Bear is one of the few artist that I like to think are indie-firendly and quality-oriented. His website is The Sound of Picture where you can find his library and pricing model. Below is and explanation of how the site works as well as some examples of how the TCFF has used his music in the past.

What Is The Sound Of Picture Production Library? from Podington Bear - Chad Crouch on Vimeo.

2013 Tree City Film Festival - Showreel from Tree City Film Festival on Vimeo.

Tree City Film Festival 2014 - Guide to Uploading to Vimeo from Tree City Film Festival on Vimeo.

Two Kids Who Love Metal - Update

I felt compelled to update Dave's previous post from November of last year. I read in an article that these kids struck a deal with Sony for $1.7 million. Dave should be a talent agent.

Radiolab Live - Apocalyptical FULL SHOW

Radiolab is one of my favorite radio programs. And every once in a while they take the show on the road and do a live broadcast. Typically when I think of a live radio broadcast, I think of a panel of people behind microphones. But Radiolab's live shows are known to be pretty unique; there are giant puppets, live music and great visuals.

It's 2 hours long... sorry Chad.

Two Kids Who Love Metal

Epic Split

JCVD has not had it easy. This is pretty common knowledge... Jackie Jean Claude Van Damme is a karate guy who was big on the early 90s starring in a movie called blood sport, and other movies of similar ilk. So when I saw this spot this was my thought process.

Time 1: "Wow, that was really funny and that music timing hit perfectly, damn those trucks are going backwards"

Time 2: "This is strangely poetic and JCVD has been through a lot, I feel for him, this is ridiculous and awesome"

Time 3: "There is something so powerful about a single shot. We never do this, and should"

Music/Movie Documentary

We've all done it. But what about the people that were in deep SH*T? Radiohead releasing a name-your-price album, Metallica first suing Napster. If you haven't seen RiP: A Remixing Manifesto, I highly recommend it. It's in the Fun Folder, or watch it on YouTube. Here's the trailer. Micky Mouse makes an appearance, too.

WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON?

"I Can't Go For That"- Daryl Hall, Chromeo

Been meaning to the post this since Brent made that horrendous dubstep Hall & Oats mix.

Hall and Oates Get's a Nose Bleed

Elders React to Dubstep

It's not Dean Martin or Frank Sinatra.

120 BPM

Jean Brochefort created this for the Vimeo Weekend Challenge "One to One hundred", but really it's just another one of those simple and effective ideas that I wish I had thought of first.  I love how our brains only need a second of audio to recognize a song, and how all the songs put together almost create a new song.

Darwin Deez - You Can't Be My Girl

The best and pretty much only good use of stock footage that I have ever seen.

I have been listening to Cave In all day with no plans to stop

Forgive the crappy VEVO that will precede

Impactist - Yeah

Do you know why I love Impactist? Aside from having some amazing design talent and an ability to animate with the best of them, Impactist also makes their own music. They currently have a new album out called, Undercast Is Overrated. And how do they promote said music you ask? By using their amazing design talent and ability to animate! So much talent here it's sickening really.