This 1978 marketing video starts off as a homage to Star Wars and then bizarrely turns into an advertising pitch for wine sales. Stick around until 5 minutes in, when the C-3PO character starts disco dancing.
Much Digital Studios Announces Nine New Creators
Much Digital Studiosannounced today that nine established and emerging Canadian creators have been added to its network of 13 YouTube creators and digital influencers. The new Much Digital Studios roster of talent includes: beauty, fashion, travel, and lifestyle experts Bianca Harris, Camille Co.,Michael Rizzi, Naomi Elle, Patrick Tomasso, and Tasha Leelyn; gaming experts Devon Crawford, and Rerez; and pop culture aficionado Ajay Fry. The roster of 22 Much Digital Studios creators have 2.1 million subscribers in total.
Since launching in May, Much Digital Studios has received more than 10 million video views, with 35.6 million minutes of video consumed, and 193,000 video likes so far. Much Digital Studios is now attracting on average over 1.2 million views a week. Following his stint as co-host of the 2015 MUCH MUSIC VIDEO AWARDS RED CARPET, creator Jus Reign’s number of YouTube subscribers has increased by more than 52,000. Additionally, comedic group 4YallEntertainment’s YouTube page has increased by more than 27,000 subscribers, and beauty expert AllegraLouise’s page is up by 22,000, nearly doubling since launch. To see what the creators have been up to click here. Additionally, beginning this week, viewers can catch the Much Digital Studios creators in interstitial content airing on Much.
“From the MMVAs and THE MIKE ON MUCH podcast to creators attending every hot summer festival, the momentum has not stopped since the launch of Much Digital Studios, resulting in more subscribers each day,” said Justin Stockman, Vice-President, Specialty Channels, Bell Media. “With new genres and fresh content, this group of nine talented young Canadians are a welcome addition to our already diverse and engaging roster.”
“Covering a wide variety of genres, the expanded lineup of Much Digital Studios creators presents increased opportunities for brands wanting to work with Much,” said Dave Caporicci, Managing Director, Brand Partnerships, Bell Media. “With opportunities for in-video integration, as well as further amplification online, and on our linear properties, we are looking forward to connecting brands with Much Digital Studios.”
About the new Much Digital Studios creators:
Name: Ajay Fry
Genre: Pop culture
Bio: Ajay Fry began his national television career on YTV, hosting the coveted Saturday morning block. After two successful years he blasted off to Space where he’s been in orbit for the last seven years hosting INNERSPACE (Weeknights at 6 p.m. ET). Along the way he’s made appearances in the web-series, CAPTAIN CANUCK, and the Space original series, BITTEN. His YouTube channel “5 on Fry”acts as a platform to offer his unique opinion on five topics of interest like TV Series, movies, games, tech, cosplay, and current affairs. If it’s popular, Ajay’s got something to say about it. In his downtime, Ajay likes to game (under the gamertag AjayFry – how original). For more info on Ajay, visit his websitesAjayFry.com and Absoluteajay.com.
Name: Bianca Harris
Genre: Beauty
Bio: Toronto-based makeup artist Bianca Harris learned to apply her own makeup at a very young age. After attending George Brown College’s School of Makeup and Esthetics, Harris launched her own beauty-focused YouTube channel, as well as co-founded the website The Look Beauty. Harris’s work has been featured in numerous magazines and television series including: Two Magazine, fshnunlimited, andFTV Magazine, BLOWE, and her work has also been seen on THE NEXT STAR, CTV NEWS, and THE MUCH MUSIC VIDEO AWARDS. Her most popular YouTube videos include Zoe Kravitz Daytime Look,Contouring & Highlighting: Medium to Deep Skin, and Rihanna i-D Mag Inspired Makeup Tutorial.
Name: Camille CO
Genre: Fashion, beauty, gaming
Bio: Camille CO is a Toronto-based multimedia journalist, YouTuber, and social media maven. Graduating with honours from the University of Guelph-Humber, Camille has worked as a contributing editorial assistant at Today’s Parent as well as a game writer for SocialScavenger.com. Now, Camille uses her YouTube channel and blog to express herself and inspire others in the world of fashion, beauty, and gaming. Camille’s most popular videos include Customized Vampire Fangs from Vampfangs.com,How To Fix An Apple Charger, and How To Fix a Knitted Sweater.
Name: Devon Crawford
Genre: Gaming
Bio: Devon Crawford is a vlogger from Toronto, who takes his passion for technology to another level by creating videos on how to rule the gaming world. Crawford’s channel has something for everyone who likes to game, no matter how many achievements they’ve unlocked. Crawford’s videos range in difficulty from how to beat a level, to how to build a computer. Crawford currently has 11,000 subscribers with more than 767,870 page views to date. His most popular videos include New Computer Build + Minecraft Test 1100 FPS!, Dxtory Best Settings/Record Minecraft Videos NO LAG, and MINECRAFT PARTY! (Ep.1).
Name: Michael Rizzi
Genre: Lifestyle
Bio: Michael Rizzi is a self-described “quirky, gay Canadian who enjoys talking to his camera.” His YouTube channel, MikeyThePlatypus, showcases his upbeat personality and sense of humour through vlogs, Q&As, and men’s fashion and lifestyle videos. Since joining YouTube in February 2012, Rizzi has amassed more than 100,000 subscribers and 5.5 million page views with popular videos such as Gay Guys React To Gay Porn, Gay Couples React to Anti-Gay Marriage Ads, and Myths About Sex.
Name: Patrick Tomasso
Genre: Lifestyle, travel
Bio: Patrick Tomasso is a filmmaker, musician, and vlogger from Toronto. Inspired by his passion for social media and advertising, Tomasso loves to watch his creativity come to life through his YouTube channel, which focuses on lifestyle and travel. His most popular videos include Twice Melted Grilled Cheese, Eating Everything in Montreal, and OSHEAGA 2014-Weekend Wrap Video.
Name: Naomi Elle
Genre: Lifestyle, travel
Bio: Naomi Leanage is a 22-year-old vlogger hailing from Toronto, who works as an editorial assistant forFaze.ca and runs her own blog Confessions of a Twenties Girl. On her YouTube channel, Naomi Elle, she vlogs about all things lifestyle including shopping hauls, DIYs, how-tos, and her favourite thing – travelling! Naomi’s most popular videos include Swimsuit Collection 2015, How To Get The BEST Concert Tickets, and ROOM TOUR 2015.
Name: Rerez
Genre: Gaming
Bio: Rerez is a YouTube channel created and hosted by Cambridge, Ont. native Shane Luis, featuring all the newest, strangest, and most unique gaming topics on the Internet. With its popular reviews of new videos games, consoles, rare titles, retro games, and more, Rerez has accumulated more than 3.7 million page views since its launch in 2012. Luis also created an original series for the channel, entitledPositives, which highlights the best parts of some of the worst video games ever made. Other popular Rerez videos include The First Video Game Console Ever Made – The Story of the Brown Box,PlayStation Analog Joystick Review, and Rarest PSP Game Ever – Hilton Ultimate Team Play.
Name: Tasha Leelyn
Genre: Beauty
Bio: Tasha Leelyn is a full-time YouTuber, and part-time photographer hailing from Burlington, Ont. Known for her signature pastel locks, she quickly rose to fame when her easy how-to hair dye tutorials caught the attention of thousands of viewers online. With popular videos like How To: Silver Hair Tutorial, andHow To: Dip Dye Your Hair, her YouTube channel has garnered more than 166,000 subscribers and 1.6 million views since the beginning of 2014.
The new creators join previously announced Much Digital Studios partners, which include: comedy channels The Danocracy, Ron Dias TV, and Shane Cunningham; beauty, fashion, and lifestyle expertsAllegraLouise and Mila Victoria; musicians Dan Talevski, SickickMusic, and Tyler Shaw; illusionist Rayn Magic; and the recently launched podcast, THE MIKE ON MUCH PODCAST.
Health Canada has approved the drug RU-486. So, let’s watch Consolidated’s Butyric Acid
Health Canada has approved the drug RU-486, more commonly known as the abortion pill.
A spokesperson for Health Canada confirmed that the company that makes the drug was informed Wednesday it had been cleared for use in Canada.
The drug has been available for a quarter century in France and nearly as long in Britain. It has been available in the United States since 2000.
In fact, women in roughly 60 countries are able to access the drug, which is used to safely terminate a pregnancy.
Via Global News
…and from 1994, here’s Consolidated with Butyric Acid, one of the great songs of the 90s not released as a single.
Stevie Nicks’s Isolated Vocals For Edge of Seventeen
Written by Stevie Nicks to express the grief resulting from the death of her uncle Jonathan and the murder of John Lennon during the same week of December 1980, the song is still a stunner.
According to Nicks, the title came from a conversation she had with Tom Petty’s first wife, Jane, about the couple’s first meeting. Jane said they met “at the age of seventeen”, but her strong Southern accent made it sound like “edge of seventeen” to Nicks. The singer liked the sound of the phrase so much that she told Jane she would write a song for it and give her credit for the inspiration.
https://youtu.be/HL2aocnmNE0
…and here’s the video:
https://youtu.be/ojGKSgug_FM
Watch: Jammin’ the Blues, the beautiful 9-minute film from 1944
One of the most beautiful jazz films ever made: Jammin’ the Blues, directed by Life magazine photographer Gjon Mili in 1944. This short film features several prominent jazz musicians getting together for a rare filmed jam session, including Lester Young, Red Callender, Harry Edison, Marlowe Morris, Sid Catlett, Barney Kessel, Jo Jones, John Simmons, Illinois Jacquet, Marie Bryant, Archie Savage and Garland Finney. Barney Kessel is the only white musician in the film. He was seated in the shadows to shade his skin.
The movie was directed by Life magazine photographer Gjon Mili, edited by Everett Dodd, with lighting and photography directed by Robert Burks (his first credit in this field), and released by Warner Bros. Producer Gordon Hollingshead was nominated for an Academy Award in the category of Best Short Subject, One-reel.
Working with Harold Eugene Edgerton of MIT, Mili was a pioneer in the use of stroboscopic instruments to capture a sequence of actions in one photograph. Mili did not serve as cinematographer for this film, but Blues uses multiplied images that in many ways recall the multi-image still-frames done with the strobe.
In 1995, Jammin’ the Blues was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”.
https://youtu.be/2v_Y3Pbiims
Peter Gabriel to Release Limited Edition, Vinyl Remasters of First Four Solo Albums October 2
On October 2, 2015, Peter Gabriel’s first four self-titled solo albums will be made available on vinyl for the first time since 2002. The first three albums are affectionately known as Car, Scratch and Melt due to their iconic Hipgnosis designed covers, while the fourth album is entitled Security.
“I really wanted the first record to be different from what I’d done with Genesis so we were trying to do things in different styles,” says Peter Gabriel. “A bit of barbershop, which Tony Levin helped with, there were more bluesy things, a variety of songs and arrangements that were consciously trying to provide something different than what I’d done before.”
Much expertise and care was taken when remastering the albums, resulting in incredible audio for not just Peter Gabriel fans, but for the music community at large. All the albums have been Half-Speed Remastered and cut to lacquers at 45RPM, across two heavyweight 180g LPs to deliver maximum dynamic sound range. The vinyl was cut by Matt Colton at Alchemy Mastering, mastered by Tony Cousins at Metropolis and overseen by Peter Gabriel’s main sound engineer Richard Chappell.
The vinyl editions will be gatefold sleeves, utilizing imagery from the initial first LP pressings, sourced and re-scanned from original artwork. Each album comes as a limited edition and one of 10,000 worldwide units – all are individually numbered. The albums include download cards with a choice of digital download (Hi-Res 24-bit/96k or 16-bit/44.1k).
These releases form the first wave of vinyl re-releases that will see all of Peter Gabriel’s albums given the Half-Speed Remaster treatment over time, with further roll-out details to follow.
Following his departure from Genesis in 1975, Peter Gabriel released his first solo album, Peter Gabriel (often referred to as ‘Car’), in February 1977. It featured ‘Solsbury Hill’, his debut solo single, which remains one the best-loved songs in the Gabriel canon. Produced by Bob Ezrin, with guest musicians including Robert Fripp and, notably, the first appearance of long-term collaborator Tony Levin. The album charted at number 7 in the UK, and number 38 in USA.
The second album, Peter Gabriel also known as ‘Scratch’, followed in June 1978, with Robert Fripp installed as producer. Fripp continued to feed Peter’s growing fascination with electronics (see the use of ‘Frippertronics’ on the track ‘Exposure’), and the resulting album is denser and more experimental than the debut.
Writing in the NME, Nick Kent said, “closer to the root of the album, there’s a purity of strength to the songs individual enough to mark Gabriel out as a man whose creative zenith is close at hand.”
The third album, Peter Gabriel also known as ‘Melt’ released in May 1980 was Gabriel’s first solo UK number 1 album. It also included his first UK Top 5 single ‘Games Without Frontiers’ (which featured Kate Bush, who also appeared on the album’s ‘No Self Control’) and Peter’s first overtly political song ‘Biko’. Of ‘Biko’ Peter has said; “It was as much a song that helped shape me as the other way round.” Produced by Steve Lillywhite, the album features notable contributions from not only Kate Bush but also former band-mate Phil Collins, Paul Weller, who played guitar on ‘And On Through The Wire’ and Gabriel stalwart David Rhodes.
The final album in the series, Peter Gabriel, also known as ‘Security’ was released in September 1982. It further showcased Gabriel’s questing spirit, as not only did it point to Peter’s increasing interest in non-Western music and rhythms, it was also his first fully digital recording. The extensive use of sampling through the Fairlight CMI also brought a new dimension to this record. The album included his first US Top 40 hit ‘Shock The Monkey’.
The albums will be released on Real World.
Pre-order now from: www.petergabriel.com/vinyl
Currently Peter Gabriel remains in the studio working on new music.
TRACKLISTINGS:
PG1 – CAR (1977)
A1: Moribund The Burgermeister
A2: Solsbury Hill
B1: Modern Love
B2: Excuse Me
B3: Humdrum
C1: Slowburn
C2: Waiting For The Big One
D1: Down The Dolce Vita
D2: Here Comes The Flood
PG2 – SCRATCH (1978)
A1: On The Air
A2: D.I.Y.
A3: Mother of Violence
B1: A Wonderful Day In A One-Way World
B2: White Shadow
C1: Indigo
C2: Animal Magic
C3: Exposure
D1: Flotsam and Jetsam
D2: Perspective
D3: Home Sweet Home
PG3 – MELT (1980)
A1: Intruder
A2: No Self Control
B1: Start
B2: I Don’t Remember
B3: Family Snapshot
B4: And Through The Wire
C1: Games Without Frontiers
C2: Not One Of Us
D1: Lead A Normal Life
D2: Biko
PG4 – SECURITY (1982)
A1: The Rhythm Of The Heat
A2: San Jacinto
B1: I Have The Touch
B2: The Family and The Fishing Net
C1: Shock The Monkey
C2: Lay Your Hands On Me
D1: Wallflower
D2: Kiss Of Life
34% of people find new music using video services
Google Inc.’s video service, YouTube, has grown in leaps and bounds year-on-year from the second quarter of 2014. How large has it grown?
11%: That’s how much YouTube has grown since 2014’s second quarter.Revenue totaled $17.7 billion, and profit was $3.9 billion. Google chief financial officer Ruth Porat says there are two factors contributing to this growth. The first is the growth of Google’s search business on mobile. The second is the time users spend on YouTube. The average view time has increased by 60%, with watch time on mobile doubling. YouTube has a billion monthly users. Music video publishers and labels will need to study YouTube and how its growth can benefit music artists and bands. Source: Muscially
$65 billion in market value: A strong second quarter increased YouTube’s stock value by 16.3%, increasing its market value to $65 million. For the 18-49 year old demographic, YouTube is larger than any individual American cable network, Google chief business officer Omid Kordestani said. Home page views have increased three fold, he said. Revenue has increased for advertisers as well. There are 40% more video ads than last year with the top 100 advertisers spending 60% more on ads. A year ago, YouTube was worth $3 billion. Google purchased YouTube in 2006, a year after it was founded, for $1.65 billion. Every minute, 300 hours of video are uploaded. Source: Forbes
So, how are multi-channel networks doing compared to YouTube?
– VEVO saw a 70% increase in users age 13-24. That same demographic grew an average of 63% on other networks.
– VEVO had 48,195 unique visitors in 2014. Vimeo had 38,851. Google websites totaled 162,317.
– 34% of people find new music using video services, more than any other source.
– 45% of YouTube viewers discovered new music with a video service.
Sources: Music Watch and Boyar Research and Midem
Yoko Ono To Release ‘Yes, I’m A Witch Too’ Out January 22 With Death Cab For Cutie, Peter Bjorn and John, Portugal The Man
MANIMAL GROUP is excited to announce the sequel to YOKO ONO’S critically acclaimed 2007 collaboration record Yes, I’m A Witch through Astralwerks called Yes, I’m A Witch Too. The album is Executive Produced by Yoko and Rob Stevens.
Yes, I’m A Witch Too is slated for an early 2016 release and features new collaborations and remixes pairing ONO with Death Cab For Cutie, Peter, Bjorn and John, Sparks, tUnE-yArDs, MiikeSnow, Cibo Matto, Portugal The Man and more.
The album is coming out via MANIMAL (Bat for Lashes, Warpaint, Chains of Love) as a double vinyl set, as well as in deluxe CD and digital formats, on January 22nd, 2016.
Featuring:
“Forgive Me My Love” ONO-Death Cab For Cutie
“Mrs. Lennon” ONO-Peter, Bjorn and John
“Move On Fast” ONO-Jack Douglas
“Give Me Something” ONO-Sparks
“She Gets Down on her Knees” ONO-Penguin Prison
“Soul Got Out of the Box” ONO-Portugal the Man
“Dogtown” ONO-Sean Ono Lennon
“Warrior Woman” ONO-tUnE-yArDs
“Catman” ONO-Miike Snow
“Yes, I’m Your Angel” ONO-Cibo Matto
“Wouldnit” ONO-Dave Audé
“I Have A Woman Inside My Soul” ONO-John Palumbo
“No Bed For Beatle John” ONO-Ebony Bones
“Coffin Car” ONO-Automatique
“Walking On Thin Ice” ONO-Danny Tenaglia
“Approximately Infinite Universe” ONO-Blow Up
