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steve reich :: come out

yuka — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 19:00:24 +0000

steve reich

choreography by anne teresa de keersmaeker & michele anne de mey

found via dystopianfuturetoday, videosift

mate :: a brief history of the human race

yuka — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:23:55 +0000

found via farhad2000, videosift

esther ofarim :: speak low

yuka — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 06:35:37 +0000

via choggie!! from videosift.

italian spiderman!

yuka — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 14:12:16 +0000

SUSPENSO~! ROMANZA~!

i just wrote an email wishing happy tuesday. and i realized it’s still monday. i’m still sick and my brain is not working yet…
anyhoo, happy monday with italian spiderman.

via videosift

korla pandit :: dreamy & hypnotic hammond organ

yuka — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 05:49:01 +0000

korla pandit had a daily afternoon music tv show in LA back in the 1950s where he played his unique percussive style of hammond organ while mystical cloud projections passed in the background and the camera focused in on his dreamy hypnotic eyes.

so dreamy & hypnotic, in fact, that wealthy women started sending him really expensive gifts, like grand pianos. rumors began to circulate that pandit was actually hypnotizing women through the tv & the concern got so great that the station cancelled him and he was replaced by and up and coming pianist - liberace.

korla slipped into obscurity, eventually playing organ at silent film revival houses in LA until tim burton cast him for a cameo as himself in ed wood.

watch this on videosift.

stop-motion animation using 500 ping pong balls

yuka — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 06:29:43 +0000

“A stop motion animation with ping pong balls, 2000 pictures, 500 balls and my hands”. Includes versions of classic video games.

Music: “Popcorn” by Hot Butter

my favorite websites :: milk magazine

yuka — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 04:29:24 +0000

milk magazine (fashion & culture magazine from hong kong), asked me about my favorite websites. videosift is by far the most entertaining website that i like. nowadays, i don’t really have time to browse websites, but i check videosift everyday to find something amusing. paul and i joined as a sifter over a year ago. we post videos that we both like.

at one point, plastiquemonkey became the number one sifter on videosift. i screensaved it because i knew it wouldn’t last long. as a matter of fact, it lasted about 5 minutes. another sifter, name deputydog, passed us right away and shot up to the top. but then he stopped sifting and started his own very popular website.

my 5 favorite websites:

VideoSift
–> this is a community website where people submit videos and the community votes on them. it’s an amazing selection. finding a favorite sifter is like finding a gem box - full of fascinating things. my favorite sifters are “rickegee“, “farhad2000” and “mlx“.
Deputy Dog
–> a very entertaining blog by someone i met through videosift. he has a great talent for finding interesting things.
Kanshin Kuukan (”Interest Space”)
–> a japanese community site where people write about whatever interests them. i click on random tags and read things that are new to me.
Design*Sponge
–> probably my favorite design blog.
Go-Kyokun (”Your Daily Lesson”)
–> a japanese website where people send in puns and funny lines. judges decide which line will get published — one per day. it’s very funny and i can start my day with a good laugh.

bespin tale

yuka — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 09:08:18 +0000

this is beautiful. music by mogwai.

via videosift.

les demoiselles de rochefort: marins, amis, amants ou maris

yuka — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 08:06:44 +0000

“Sailors — Friends, Lovers, or Husbands”

amazing music, beautiful film.

i still can’t believe this video has only one vote on videosift… well, it should get three votes. because paul, elijah and i love it!

jacques demy
michel legrand

watch this video on videosift.

mr. wind’s solitude

yuka — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 02:33:38 +0000

it was windy yesterday. i bet this guy was walking around in saskatoon…

via mlx on videosift