Wednesday, April 20, 2011

A 1930s Video of what the Fashionable Woman will wear in the year 2000

A video in which fashion designers circa the 1930s were asked to design clothing as they predicted it would look in the year 2000. More fun than accurate (”transparent nets to catch males”, “an electric belt will adapt the belt to climatic changes”, “a dress of aluminum”), although their vision of the tie-less, goateed 21st century male — with his portable phone/radio and pockets for “keys, coins, and candy for cuties” — is fairly prescient.

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

The Amazing Virtual Choir of Eric Whitacre

Eric assembled over 2000 voices (some used multiple times) from over 12 countries via the internet on a choral piece of music  he wrote, mixed the audio and video and produced this amazing video and even more inspiring audio. All singers submitted their voice on-line (some said they did hundreds of takes before sending their submissions to Eric). Could this be the future of music?