Amazing drummer!
Watch this.
Flash Concert
I’ve watched dozens of concerts like this on YouTube. They are not spontaneous. They are choreographed. But the audience is always surprised and happy to see them unfold. As am I.
(Oops! Sorry about that. I forgot the theme of this issue. Let me correct that. They make me feel a little less miserable!)
Middle School Band Covers Guns N’ Roses
Drummer Jasper Hughes posted this footage of his middle school band doing a truly badass cover of the classic Guns N’ Roses ballad “Sweet Child O’ Mine.”
“For my school’s ‘holiday concert,” said Hughes, “our band director thought that it would be fun if we were to do a cover of the famous Guns N’ Roses song, ‘Sweet Child O’ Mine’.…The holiday concert is the biggest performance of the year, with about every family at the school attending. To fit all of these people, the concert takes place in a giant church near our school. Needless to say, playing this song for such a large crowd was immensely fun.”
“We Are the World”
Did this really happen?
No. Of course not. It’s AI. But I wanted you to see it for three reasons that correspond to three responses I had to it.
1. It’s funny. What makes it especially humorous is that all the world leaders are singing in tones and accents that resemble the tones and accents they have when they speak English.
2. The AI is not perfect, but it’s a lot better than I would have expected, considering the challenges involved. The lip synching, for example, is amazingly good.
3. Halfway through the song, I found myself feeling moved by it – adrift in sentiment and thinking, “Wouldn’t it be lovely?” This quickly made, amateurishly produced, AI meme managed to accomplish (in my heart, at least) the naïvely delusional impulse that the people originally involved in it had in mind when it was first recorded.
I’m not sure what that says about anything, but I thought I should send it to you and ask you to watch it and tell me how you reacted to it.
Ronald Reagan may not have the smartest president that’s been in the White House, but he was probably the best storyteller. Click here and here for two examples.
The Amazing Indiara Sfair
Can the harmonica sound any better than this?
Photographic Street Art Comes Alive
Check out this incredible stop-motion short film.
Who creates jobs?
Charlie Kirk owns this smug college student.
Jimmy Durante: “I’ll never forget the day I read a book.”
Click here.