Is This The Opposite of Queen?

Maybe, but it's still fun, especially if you compare it to the original video. Catherine found this on Flavorwire: enjoy!

Rings Running 'Round the Earth

Kottke.org has pulled a screenshot from the video of the rings as they might appear from Manhattan, too.

The Vendor or the Client: A Rorshach Test

This video came to me from my account manager at Update Graphics, a temporary staffing agency for graphics professionals. If your business involves working with clients at all, as my day job does, you've been here. As an artist, though, and especially as a director of a company that's always operating on a tight budget, I think I may have made many of these arguments—or ones very similar to them—over the past 16 years.

Al Green: "Take Me to the River"

Back in 1979, I caught a band on Saturday Night Live that blew me away completely: the lead singers was this geeky-looking guy, the bass player was a woman (as a 16-year-old bassist, I had never seen a band with a female on the instrument) and they played this great song, "Take Me to the River." The band was, of course, Talking Heads and the song is still one of my absolute favorites. Today, after they played it on woxy, the DJ reminded me that it's actually a cover and I realized that I didn't know who'd originally recorded the song. Now I do and I am so now going to download this version!

Renfield: "Take It Away"

Here's a music video by the L.A. band, Renfield. The lead singer, Marz, was in the cast of my play, Before I Wake, at Theater of Note in 2007; while my play is loosely adapted from the novel, Dracula, Marz played Van Helsing, not Renfield. The video is directed by Ezra Buzzington, who directed B4 I Wake (as the L.A. production was called), and the shoot appears to have been done at the NOTE space. I really dig the song and Ezra did a great job with the visuals.

The Pot of Gold at the End of "In Rainbows"

As if allowing fans to download their latest album for any amount we wanted to offer—over a month before the CD went into stores—wasn't good enough, Radiohead is once again monkeying around with conventional wisdom (my favorite oxymoron) in the music business. They've partnered with online animation site aniBOOM to sponsor a contest to create animations for the In Rainbows music videos. I bought the album during the download period and have really enjoyed it; I don't watch videos usually but I'm gonna follow this because I'm curious to see how this plays out. I mean, in addition to believing that the recording industry is hopeless mired in OldBusinessThink, I'm big admirer of artists who push themselves to try something different—especially when so many of them who achieve the level of career success that this band have get "Old, Fat and Lazy," artistically and in the way they conduct business. Radiohead may ultimately decide that they never want to revisit anything they've tried on In Rainbows, but at least they were willing to take the risk in the first place. They're the kind of role models all of us need these days.