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Tag: Illuminated Chronicles

Illuminated Chronicles: The Alpacing Dead

Posted on July 24, 2015October 19, 2024 By Sammy Younan No Comments on Illuminated Chronicles: The Alpacing Dead

Half of Seal 6 Radio Jaren Hayman stepped out of the Girth Radio booth to write and produce a clever Walking Dead spoof. Only this time instead of zombies it’s…alpacas.

The Horror!!

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Illuminated Chronicles: Words by Rakim

Posted on July 17, 2015 By Sammy Younan No Comments on Illuminated Chronicles: Words by Rakim
Illuminated Chronicles: Words by Rakim

There’s a great irony in rap music. The lyrics in rap are supposed to spring forth as a kind of rough street poetry. Poetry by any standard demands proficient articulation, profound thought and pleasurable connection. Yet despite the surge of rappers and rap music many of these specific elements are missing, either in action or…

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Illuminated Chronicles: Shad Live at Massey Hall

Posted on July 3, 2015 By Sammy Younan No Comments on Illuminated Chronicles: Shad Live at Massey Hall
Illuminated Chronicles: Shad Live at Massey Hall

On March 27, 2015 Shad had his Massey Hall debut. Sadly I could not attend and thanks to the nice people at Massey Hall that’s sort of ok.

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Illuminated Chronicles: Honda Buddy Holly Commercial

Posted on June 26, 2015 By Sammy Younan No Comments on Illuminated Chronicles: Honda Buddy Holly Commercial
Illuminated Chronicles: Honda Buddy Holly Commercial

What…the crack?

A family (including a hip and not rapping grandpa) combat road trip boredom by Gleeing Weezer’s Buddy Holly.

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Illuminated Chronicles: The Neptunes In The Studio

Posted on June 19, 2015 By Sammy Younan No Comments on Illuminated Chronicles: The Neptunes In The Studio
Illuminated Chronicles: The Neptunes In The Studio

It is surreal but the classic love ballad Rump Shaker Wreckx-N-Effect’s 1992 hit gave the world a significant ode to booty and birthed Pharrell Williams. It’s Heating Up…

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Illuminated Chronicles: Percussive Maintenance

Posted on June 12, 2015 By Sammy Younan No Comments on Illuminated Chronicles: Percussive Maintenance
Illuminated Chronicles: Percussive Maintenance

We’ve all been there, slapping, slamming, cursing our tech. And the results…are often effective. Take that IT department. Duncan Robson plundered tv shows and movies to find dozens of effective tech slaps, cuffs, beats all tightly edited into the hypnotic Percussive Maintenance. Outstanding! Special bonus points for including Small Wonder, crazy deep reference. Well played…

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Illuminated Chronicles: Gravity: A Falling Montage

Posted on June 5, 2015 By Sammy Younan No Comments on Illuminated Chronicles: Gravity: A Falling Montage
Illuminated Chronicles: Gravity: A Falling Montage

And to think all this time most movies were about characters just falling in love. Turns out they’re often jumping, leaping off buildings, falling, escaping and more. Gravity shows up in the movies more often that we realize. All the classic leaps are here: Die Hard (YES GUY!), Aliens, Verigo…Iron Man and more. Enjoy this, I found the video deeply hypnotic.

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Illuminated Chronicles: Font Men

Posted on May 29, 2015 By Sammy Younan No Comments on Illuminated Chronicles: Font Men
Illuminated Chronicles: Font Men

As children our journey imitates human evolution: we start out drawing on walls. It’s one of our first artistic risks crushed by an ardent no. If we can successfully maintain our Artistic impulses through the limited faculties of education and many more nos we arrive to eventually professionally begin…writing on walls. Only this time wall…

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Illuminated Chronicles: Visualing Poetry With 1960s Computer Graphics

Posted on April 3, 2015 By Sammy Younan No Comments on Illuminated Chronicles: Visualing Poetry With 1960s Computer Graphics
Illuminated Chronicles: Visualing Poetry With 1960s Computer Graphics

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So April is National Poetry Month! The goal of course is to increase awareness and deepen appreciate of poetry. As such here is visualing poetry with 1960s computer graphics…yup.

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Illuminated Chronicles: Skateboarding in India Episode 3 (by Levi’s)

Posted on March 6, 2015 By Sammy Younan No Comments on Illuminated Chronicles: Skateboarding in India Episode 3 (by Levi’s)
Illuminated Chronicles: Skateboarding in India Episode 3 (by Levi’s)

Sammy Younan Girth Radio Presents… Levi’s has released the third and final installment of their Skateboarding In India series, for which they linked up with the local Holystoked skateboarding team in Bangalore to help the build the first free public skate park in the country. You can view Episode 1 and Episode 2. In this…

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    by Sammy Younan
    This week's TV Recommendations is loaded with TV We Love to Happy Halloween suggestions that'll leave you Scared Shitless. A wonderful range like that can only be: #SetTheVCR.
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    With these week's TV recommendations say goodbye to John Candy and the Woman In Cabin 10. But say hello to #SetTheVCR.
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    Like a man in the basement I got TV recommendations that are a Chef's Kiss. On The Lost Bus, this is your stop: It's #SetTheVCR!
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    I got the Lowdown on this week's TV Recommendations so you don't hafta Go Into The Void all Wayward and lost. Just as The Simpsons keep going, so too does #SetTheVCR.
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