How Pixar Animators Solved The Problem Of McQueen Having No Hands
Reasons why I could never be an animator. I would never think of the problem of a talking car not being able to pick...
Factory Records Doc: Manchester from Joy Division to Happy Mondays
Documentary celebrating the triumph, tragedy and human comedy that was Manchester record company, Factory. Started by the late Tony Wilson, Alan Erasmus, Peter Saville...
Jerry Weintraub: How I Fooled Elvis Presley
One of your early triumphs was managing Elvis Presley’s tours. On one of the first concert dates, you narrowly avoided a complete disaster in...
Infographic: The Value of a Single Music Stream
This infographic shows the reality of today's music business: billions of streams, each one requiring precise metadata and tracking, that pay fractions of a...
The sailors who brought back records from the US to the UK
One solitary record changed Bill Harrison’s life. He was a 15-year-old lad from Liverpool, walking down to his local sports centre, when he heard...
Reporter Is Grace Under Pressure When A Lamb Urinates On Him
A reporter found himself being upstaged when a lamb decided to relieve itself while he was filming a piece to camera. BBC News NI's...
Having A Bad Day? The Tiny Tunes Band Will Cheer You Up
Meet the Tiny Tunes band. They perform songs about the important things in life. Serious subjects like eating steaks, robot legs, seeing a doctor,...
This flowchart from 1957 shows Disney’s strategy for corporate growth
Made to cash in on the groundbreaking films of Disney, the company issued a flowchart that is likely still used to this day. Actually,...
Robert Plant shows his comedic side in indie film
An short clip from Doreen The Movie, an indie comedy screening in The Black Country released on October 17th. Robert Plant has a cameo...
You’re Going To Want This Black Metal Taylor Swift T-Shirt
I'll have to add it to my Phil Collins metal shirt...
Award-Winning Short Animation About A Lost Soul Meeting Death
A lost soul stumbles drunken through the city. In a park, Death finds him and shows him many things.
Coda from and maps and...
The sound of Beethoven’s Fifth at 160 BPM
Here's Alan Pierson and a brave quartet of Brooklyn Philharmonic musicians playing a warp-speed snippet of Beethoven's Fifth.
https://youtu.be/oOwprVgFS1k
Metallica classic ‘One’ played on the ukulele
An all-ukulele cover of the Metallica classic 'One' by Ukes of Hazzard.
https://youtu.be/n8RBrw5pGWg
The Ting Tings: Something happens between the two of us in the studio, which is very hard to be...
When they decided to decamp to Ibiza to record their third album Super Critical, Katie and Jules from The Ting Tings had a slight...
Video: Hacked Typewriter Plays Music
This is a "performance" of Leroy Anderson's 1950 symphonic arrangement, with the typewriter percussion instrument played by a combination 1960s Smith Corona electric typewriter,...
