I can’t even tell you exactly how this amazing piece of animation works. Somehow, Jim Le Fevre manages to use a turntable and what looks like basic paper to create complex animations.
I’ll copy and paste his exact words:
“It is all live action and works by using the shutter speed of the camera rather than the rather irritating stroboscope methods other 3D Zoetropes use.”
Now, that may not sound like much, but a 3D Zoetrope basically consists of a cylinder with slits in the side and “figures” of an object in various states of motion. The spinning makes it seem like it is animated. I guess Le Fevre says that his creation is not encased in a cylinder, and relies instead on the camera’s shutter in order to appropriately display the image. You’ll notice that partway through the video he allows the shutter speed to slow down so the image just becomes a big blur.
It’s pretty crazy, but a pretty innovative use for a turntable in art.
is quite the character. He’s one of the few indigenous emcees out there, and he’s pretty talented. He’s also part of a rising force in hip hop, Christian rap. I know, it sounds suspect, but some of these cats have put out some decent stuff.
Artists like Pigeon John, Deepspace 5, or really anyone from have all developed some serious followings over the last few years, so its no surprise that Red Cloud has been on board a little bit.
Honestly, the God stuff may throw some people off, but I really don’t find it that intrusive or anything. He definitely refers to his “saviour” fairly often and all that kind of stuff, but I don’t really find it that different from rappers dropping Islam in their tracks.
Red Cloud is an acquired taste, for sure, but some people fully dig him.
Here’s a pretty lighthearted track about his idol Pigeon John.
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If you want a more serious track, here’s Boulevard Knights
Ann Coulter, the postergirl for shock jock tactics, shows just how much “history” she actually knows. In this interview with Canada’s CBC, she tries to make the argument that Canada should have sent troops to Iraq the same way they sent troops to Vietnam.
More dopeness from the girls on The Corner; this time, an interview with one of Australia’s biggest hip-hop crews: the Hilltop Hoods.
Check it out below:
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is a Brighton-based soul band (fronted by Dionne Charles) who’s mighty talented, in my opinion. Her sonorous voice is accompanied by the rest of a pretty skillful band. They claim that their influences are from James Brown, our boy Fela Kuti, and a bunch of other Jazz and funk superstars.
They definitely tend to evoke memories of a much older act, but I like the way they try and stay current. You can hear a lot of breakbeat style from the drummer, and the rest of the band has these little bursts of instrumental creativity.
Here’s I bet you look good on the dancefloor
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More dopeness from the girls on CFUV’s : an interview with Classified, one of Canada’s finest emcees. Check it out below, and tune in to The Corner every Friday from 5 to 6 pm Pacific time on CFUV 101.9, or online at .
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Remember playing Memory as a child? That game that involved a bunch of face-down cards, you’d turn one over and try to turn over a different one to see if you could find the matching card in the pair? If you did, those cards were eliminated?
Well, even if that explanation just made you go cross-eyed from it’s terrible grammar, I present to you a new, flash version of memory that uses album covers.
is a Brighton-based soul band (fronted by Dionne Charles) who’s mighty talented, in my opinion. Her sonorous voice is accompanied by the rest of a pretty skillful band. They claim that their influences are from James Brown, our boy Fela Kuti, and a bunch of other Jazz and funk superstars.
