This is the first video I’ve ever uploaded onto Youtube. It’s a great instrumental song (more proof of how badly I miss WCAL here in Minneapolis), but I also did it to confirm how phenomenal a site Youtube is from the upload side in addition to the viewing side.

From the movie Diva (a pretty good movie if I remember correctly, though I saw it about 20 years ago). Anyway, this is a beautiful song.

Pretty awful video, but the music is good…(I’d recommend buying the song, listening to it loudly on an iPod, and not viewing the video at all).

A great snowboarding tune.

It doesn’t get much better than this.

This is the second time I’ve posted a video of this song, but this video is even cooler than the first. As described on a Slate piece on information-generated art called Infoviz art::

Artist Aaron Koblin helped to create this music video for the song “House of Cards,” by the band Radiohead. Released in July, it uses technologies like a 3-D scanner to evaluate distances among objects and generate point cloud data. In one of the most compelling moments, the landscape appears to dissolve or drift apart in granular fragments, a nod to the data it’s made up of. Radiohead also posted the raw scanner data online so anyone can browse them while listening to the song, or play with them and make something new.

The piece invites us to see something that its maker might not have. In that sense, it celebrates (or flatters) our ability to probe and discover. Like other exemplars of infoviz art, it holds out the hope that we could all be more creative than we seem to be.