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Sub Pop Soundcloud

It seems like there's finally a decent YouTube-for-audio in the form of soundcloud.com, with it's success measured by the number of labels that have started using it to distribute their MPFrees.

Sub Pop are using it to giveaway/stream a total of 4 tracks from the new Wolf Parade LP, and if you head over to their soundcloud page they also have a few mix-tapes to listen/download - featuring the likes of Avi Buffalo, No Age and Vetiver.

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9th Jun 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet

In Flight Entertainment

Where would we be without the trusty in-flight movie? The Times archive have an article about the first in-flight movie in 1925 and even a reproduction of the original article.

The Lost World was the movie and a restored version funded by Hugh Hefner is available on YouTube.

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21st Aug 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet

The Periodic Table of Videos

Nutty Professor Martyn Poliakov (brother of film director Stephen Poliakov) and his team at Nottingham university have made YouTube videos for all the elements in the periodic table. The videos were made the videos over a period of 5 weeks and it's worth noting his haircut about halfway through (still nutty-professor bushy).

The videos have had an amazing response - 1.9 million hits so far.  

The team seem to have a great time doing the experiments - particularly the guy in the green overalls - but you also learn some quite interesting things, such as how Victorians were poisoned by having arsenic as the green dye in their wallpaper.

Have a look at www.periodicvideos.com, but start with the introduction below.

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11th Sep 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet