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A beautiful animated, interactive music video. Pintando una Canción.

I’m watching Sigur Rós’ Heima right now — a documentary film about their free 2006 Iceland tour. It is a great DVD for everybody who likes Sigur Rós or Iceland.
Last year, in the endless magic hour of the Icelandic summer, Sigur Rós played a series of concerts around their homeland. Combining both the biggest and [...]

There are some Sigur Rós videos available on their official website including the Heima trailers I’ve already mentioned.
One video I’m particularly fond of is Glósóli from the album Takk. (The video is available on the DVD part of the special edition Sæglópur EP.) I just love the concept of the video set in a [...]

Visiting Iceland this summer was wonderful. Seeing the impressive landscape lets you understand the origins of Sigur Rós’s music. Listening to their music while driving on Icelandic roads is just perfect.
On November 5th Sigur Rós is planning to release the documentary Heima (at home) about their 2006 tour on Iceland. Watching the trailer makes me [...]

This has to be the worst product name ever: TrekStor sells an MP3 player named i.Beat blaxx.
Via Daring Fireball
TrekStor removed the i.Beat from the player’s name. That was quick.
tags: bad product name, i.Beat, iBeat, TrekStor

Found via digg because of its 3D menu Screenvader’s flash-based site had a lot more to offer: Interactive graphics and random audiovisual animations using vector graphics, images and short video sequences of Looping Housewife’s Duties. If you thought The Ring’s video sequence was scary take a look at Easy to Open; fullscreen, in the dark, [...]

Tangerine1 is a new OS X application (currently a free beta) to automatically analyze the BPM of your music in iTunes. Potion Factory states:
Tangerine lets you easily create playlists with upbeat music, or playlists for relaxing. [...] it analyzes the songs blazingly fast to the tune of more than 3 per second (on an 1.83 [...]

onAirNow is a simple but functional WordPress plugin. It reads information about your currently playing track from a file uploaded via FTP and displays it on your blog. It includes an options page and template files for your theme.

Neben besoffenen Elchen und verrückten Fröschen für das jugendliche Telefon gibt es – wenn man der Legende Glauben schenken möchte – auch Musik auf MTViva. Doch wo ist die gute Musik geblieben? Es folgt eine kleine Suche in der deutschen Fernsehlandschaft.

Das Festival
… gab es 2002 zum dritten Mal. immergutrocken.de verrät einiges über die Geschichte des Festivals und deshalb möchte ich mich nicht mit trockenen Daten aufhalten (Faulheit? Nein!) und nur soviel sagen:
Dieses Jahr (31.05. & 01.06.) gab es 4000 Besucher auf dem Festival. Die Karten (20€ + VVK) wurden limitiert, obwohl noch einige Leute mehr [...]