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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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!!
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…
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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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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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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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…
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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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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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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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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