AWESOMECON

Okay, its technically three-man act, but a one-man band.  The mutli-part one man YouTube video meme is getting a little stale, but this one is damn impressive.  Rock out baby!

[Read via Bob Nickolopoulos]

I was reading a tweet by @mdowney which referred to a post on BuzzFeed about the top 10 Michael Jackson acapella videos. This post is not about that… well, not directly anyway. I was watching the video for “Beat It” and during the breakdown/fight scene I had an amazing revelation. Holy SH*T!!! THOSE THUGS ARE HIPSTERS!

So, apparently hipsters are 1983 thugs from the “Beat It” video. Amazing but true. Check out around 2:30 in the video to revel in the pre-hipster-hipster fashion.

If you follow Daft Punk at all and/or played Little Big Planet then this will rock your socks off:

With the growth of control and interactivity available via video games, the world of Machinima is really taking off.  Games like Little Big Planet are designed with user content generation in mind and its amazing to see how it is being adapted and expanded by the user community.

Machinima, as defined via Wikipedia:

Machinima (pronounced /məˈʃiːnɨmə/ or /məˈʃɪnɨmə/) is the use of real-time three-dimensional (3-D) graphics rendering engines to generate computer animation. The term also refers to works that incorporate this animation technique. Machinima-based artists, sometimes called machinimists or machinimators, often use graphics engines from video games, a practice that arose from the animated software introductions of the 1980s demoscene, Disney Interactive Studios‘ 1992 computer game Stunt Island, and 1990s recordings of gameplay in first-person shooter (FPS) video games, such as id Software’s Doom and Quake.

[via @mesh]

St. Vincent’s sophomore album, Actor, comes out on May 5th. Here’s the first video for the first single, “Actor Out of Work”.

KANYE WEST “Welcome To Heartbreak” Directed by Nabil from nabil elderkin on Vimeo.

You have probably seen digital aritfacts when watching a highly compressed video or when your cable feed goes wonky for a bit.  They are the little squares and pixels that drift around and obscure the source you are watching.  In Nabil Elderkin’s mind, the director of the new Kanye West video, digital artifacts are not a bad thing but a tool to create an inspring video.  Even if you dislike Kanye because of his gigantic ego and hubris its still worth checking out.

[via Stereogum]

There has been many-a-time where I read about a band (new/old) and wonder what they sound like.  Usually, I search for a MySpace page or a Imeem page, but I just found a new way to find music called Just hear !t

Just Hear !t is a music oriented search/aggregator that finds music videos and tracks from sites like YouTube, Seeqpod, etc.  Its a simple and fast Adobe Flash UI that plays the music and video’s within the site.  I am impressed by its simplicity and it turned up some pretty amazing results.  A great resource for SXSW too!

Back in my day, MTV played music videos nearly 24 hours a day, not this glam-ality TV crap we have now… and we liked it.  Red Fang’s “Prehistoric Dog” reminds me of the mesmerizing times we used to have sitting around drinking Dr. Pepper (later on Beer), watching videos and waiting for Liquid Television.  Ahh… the days of high school.

“Prehistoric Dog” is a well shot and great sounding rock video, with a nice nod to the Monty Python boys.

[link via Victor]