A rather good video showing old bits of redundant hardware doing their best to play a reworking of Radioheads' "Nude". Takes a little while to get going but well worth it. I hope the student who made this gets top course marks for this.

Big Ideas (don't get any) from James Houston on Vimeo.
Apologies for adding yet another video to this blog!

Curve were probably the best thing to come out of the early nineties...

Tron
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One of the best things to come out of the 80's... "The The"...

I know I keep banging on about Prince but he was a big part of my youth. Here's probably the best offshoot from his rather large family, Wendy and Lisa...

Hypnotic.

Saul Bass style re-imagining of the original Star Wars opening credits.

I've been dusting off all my old prince related music after many years. What a joy it is to hear all those old classics. He also created a lot of tracks for other artists. Check out this sublime Martika track. Eminem needs slapping fort what he did to "Toy Soldiers".

These are good ads...

Somewhere in the depths of my mums house I have a vinyl copy of Win's "Uh! Tears Baby". Its the one album from my youth that I'm most desperate to find in MP3 form. I'll have to get someone with a USB turntable to rip it for me. But until then I'll have to make do with this, it was used in a McEwan's Lager ad BITD...

This sums up everything that is great about being a drummer!

Outstanding!

Played in a very wrong key. Please note her amusing use of the trumpet as a laser gun in her "dance routine". Pffft!

Then you need to get some of this...

Brazilian keeper Dida shows just how pathetic some players in football can be...

Don't get me wrong - I love football. I just hate divers! Here's another of Brazil's finest...

Obligatory eighties pop Youtube link...

Most notable for the appearance of esteemed TV scientist Dr. Magnus Pyke. Watch out for those elbows!

Ace on a stick (with a black velevt background).

Absolutely the best thing ever, until the next one.

Yes I've discovered Youtube - huzzah.

I saw this a couple of months back but only now thought of posting it. Ace.

Smashing