TagsTagsToday's video break from Vimeo is "Between Bears," a beautiful, thought-provoking animation by Eran Hilleli. This is his graduation project for Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. [Video]
Today's video break is an insanely cute (or maybe cutely insane) animated short by L'Orange Gutan. [Video]
Some funny riffs from Jon Stewart on several recent Obama-related stories. [Video]
Here’s a music video that may cause you to ask, “What did I just see?!” [Video]
For today’s insanity break, Gareth Pearson plays bass line, accompanying chords, and melody all at once, on a tune you may recognize. From Gareth’s album Urban Echoes Vol. 1. [Video]
Pat Metheny and Brad Mehldau play the jazz standard “All The Things You Are” at the 2007 San Sebastian Jazz Festival. And by “play” I mean: exhibit a level of telepathic communication beyond most mortal human beings. [Video]
Music, Pat Metheny, Brad Mehldau, Jazz, Video, Guitar, Piano
Well, after this interesting day, I do think it’s time for some dolphins blowing circular bubbles. Don’t you? [Video]
Here’s some mighty fancy finger picking from Gareth Pearson, doing an original tune called “Adrenaline Rush” from his album Urban Echoes Vol. 1. [Video]
ONN panelists debate what can be done about the scourge of truck-canyon-rafter violence — and more importantly, who to blame. [Video]
Onion, Satire, Humor, Comedy, Video, Media, Trucks, Canyons, Crevices, Rafts
Here are two amazing players, Chris Thile and Bryan Sutton, doing “Bridal Veil Falls” from Chris’s album Not All Who Wander Are Lost. [Video] More samples from this excellent album: [Video]
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Jon Stewart, Comedy, Video, Arizona, Immigration, Law, nativism, Xenophobia
Today’s insanity break is a very groovy animated short from Cours Toujours, posted at Vimeo. [Video]
Video, Short Film, Vimeo, Cours Toujours, Animation, Open Thread
With a special Robert Spencer moment. [Video]
Jon Stewart, Comedy, Video, Anti-Muslim, Bigotry, Religious Freedom
Exceptional wall-painted animation by Blu. [Video]
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Onion, Satire, Humor, Comedy, Video, Congress, Politics, Horses, Dangly Bits
Our overnight music: a beautiful live performance of “Past” from Todd Rundgren’s 2004 album Liars. [Video]
Man, this is brutal. And I mean that in the best possible way. Rachel Maddow uses John Boehner’s own words to demonstrate what a clueless buffoon he is. Video
Rachel Maddow, Video, John Boehner, Oil Spill, Moratorium, Bad Idiocy
Here’s a Monday afternoon insanity break, with an interesting experimental video of extreme closeups, by “clemento” at Vimeo. [Video]
Man, these guys rock like nobody else. Them Crooked Vultures, an alt-rock super group featuring Dave Grohl, John Paul Jones, and Josh Homme, perform “Gunman” from their terrific first album. Dave Grohl is a beast. I dare you not to start head-banging. [Video]
Music, Them Crooked Vultures, Video, Dave Grohl, John Paul Jones, Josh Homme
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Jon Stewart, Comedy, Video, BP, Energy, Joe Barton
Patty Griffin’s riveting performance of “Up to the Mountain” may bring tears to your eyes. A tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr., from the album Patty Griffin: Live From the Artists Den. [Video] I went up to the mountain Because you asked me to Up over the clouds To where the sky was blue I ...
A visualization of high-speed symmetry. [Video]
The musical insanity break for this Sunday afternoon is Chris Thile’s band Punch Brothers, performing “Sometimes” from the album Punch. American chamber music at its finest. [Video]