Holy Crap, It's Austin!

Miracles (Acoustic Version)

noreply@blogger.com (Austin) — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 16:57:00 +0000

This might be my new favorite cover of anything ever.

Carlo Ratti - Architecture That Senses and Responds

noreply@blogger.com (Austin) — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 14:54:00 +0000

Another awesome lecture and another view of the future growing around us...

Symphony of Reggae

noreply@blogger.com (Austin) — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 16:54:00 +0000

Exile Villify

noreply@blogger.com (Austin) — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 14:14:00 +0000

I wanted to wait until after all the Portal 2 hooplah passed to post this song, because it's really, really wonderful. The National is a great band and you should check them out.

Life In A Northern Town

noreply@blogger.com (Austin) — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 13:51:00 +0000

Dear Buckley's Angel,
Send me a woman. Any woman.

Signed,
Austin

The Bernie

noreply@blogger.com (Austin) — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 17:01:00 +0000

It's the weekend, kids! Let's get crazy and do The Bernie!

Austin: The Video Clip

noreply@blogger.com (Austin) — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 13:26:00 +0000

This is literally me.

Respect Authority

noreply@blogger.com (Austin) — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 14:47:00 +0000

This is actually the scariest clip on my blog, hands down.

Edgar Oliver

noreply@blogger.com (Austin) — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 15:46:00 +0000

Remember the "Is that a straaaaaight jacket?" guy from a couple weeks ago? Turns out he's an actual dude in New York who has a really fascinating sounding life. His voice is still bizarre and faintly hypnotic and a little creepy, though.

Fast and Loose - Careless Whisper

noreply@blogger.com (Austin) — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 13:02:00 +0000

Russian Winnie the Pooh

noreply@blogger.com (Austin) — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 14:30:00 +0000

Culture is fascinating in that one thing can be so differently interpreted by different groups in different places. Most American children love Winnie the Pooh, but would he be as lovable had they grown up with this Russian version? It's an interesting question, and this is an interesting film.

The Star Gate

noreply@blogger.com (Austin) — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 16:42:00 +0000

Just wanted to share with you an amazing cinematic achievement from 1968 (which really only makes it more impressive).

Badvertising: Burden

noreply@blogger.com (Austin) — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 14:16:00 +0000

Another one that I can't decide on. I want to say this commercial is insanely good in that it's highly disturbing, but then again, I don't think a dead child as a metaphor for child abuse is an easy sell on TV.

Badvertising: Polar Bears

noreply@blogger.com (Austin) — Tue, 31 May 2011 16:38:00 +0000

I actually can't decide if this is brilliant or awful. I'm leaning towards awful due to how terribly gruesome it is.

The Puzzle Hunters

noreply@blogger.com (Austin) — Fri, 27 May 2011 17:55:00 +0000

Let's end our week with a video clip I've become a huge fan of: The Puzzle Hunters. I wish there was an entire series of these because they're charming and enjoyable. But there's not, so just watch this one.

La Casa Munda

noreply@blogger.com (Austin) — Thu, 26 May 2011 14:15:00 +0000

A horror film shot in a single take, in a scary location... this sounds crazy intense. I need to check it out.

Jake The Peg

noreply@blogger.com (Austin) — Wed, 25 May 2011 16:35:00 +0000

Great Performances Of Our Time #2

noreply@blogger.com (Austin) — Tue, 24 May 2011 13:41:00 +0000

Great Performances Of Our Time #1

noreply@blogger.com (Austin) — Mon, 23 May 2011 16:04:00 +0000

Roger Ebert - Remaking My Voice

noreply@blogger.com (Austin) — Fri, 20 May 2011 14:44:00 +0000

Another wonderful TED talk, this time with Roger Ebert, who has had a far more interesting decade than most people realize.

Battles

noreply@blogger.com (Austin) — Thu, 19 May 2011 15:29:00 +0000

I love this album. Occasionally I try to play it at work, but I end up getting somewhat dirty looks, and nobody seems to enjoy it as much as I do. But you're on my blog, so you get to relish in my musical tastes!

Daughters

noreply@blogger.com (Austin) — Wed, 18 May 2011 16:22:00 +0000

I've been watching a lot of scary movies lately, and I've decided that there's a fine difference between a scary movie, and a gory movie. This short film is more in the first camp. Nice and suspenseful and tense and scary...

Schizophrenia

noreply@blogger.com (Austin) — Tue, 17 May 2011 14:10:00 +0000

Glennspeed You! Beck Emperor

noreply@blogger.com (Austin) — Fri, 13 May 2011 20:44:00 +0000

It's Friday the 13th, and what better way to celebrate bad luck and misfortune than with our buddy Glenn Beck orchestrated to Godspeed You! Black Emperor, making his paranoid ranting all the more paranoid and rant-y.

Jekyll and Hyde Mirror Scene

noreply@blogger.com (Austin) — Thu, 12 May 2011 14:41:00 +0000

So the Duck Soup mirror scene I posted a couple of days ago got me thinking about the excellence in choreography and planning a good 'duplicate mirror' scene, and then I remembered the amazing first person perspective from the first few minutes of 1931's Jekyll and Hyde. If this doesn't cinematic-ly blow your mind, you're too uptight or don't like movies.