Daft Punk – Something About Us – Daft Loop Love

Ableton Live looped cover of Something About Us by Daft Punk, performed on Nintendo DS Ubisoft Jam Sessions, Midi controlled software electric bass, drums, synth, vocoded vocals, and solo theremin, recorded in a single pass, with a single camera. Produced and Performed by Randy George Filmed by Nicolas Bates Visit Randy George’s website: randygeorgemusic.com and at facebook www.facebook.com Visit Randy George’s Youtube Channel and watch the classical theremin music videos, where the true dynamic and expressive nature of the instrument shines. www.youtube.com The theremin is an electronic musical instrument that is played completely without physical contact. It was invented in 1919 by a Russian physicist named Lev Sergeyevich Termen. If you are new to the theremin, please learn about it. The wikipedia page is a good place to begin: wikipedia.org About the helmet: It was made of papier-mâché with a custom LED visor built in … post production! using Softimage XSI and Adobe After Effects! Yes, it was a visual effect! 3D modeling, manual rotoscoping, and motion tracking/motion stabilization tricks were employed to pull this off. A LED array with animated text was projected on to a manually rotoscoped 3D visor, that was subsequently composited with the original footage using motion trackers in After Effects. The helmet itself took three days to make. I used 7 layers of card stock/normal stock paper strips in a special heavy mix paste recipe. The shape was built around a …
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The Authors@Google program welcomed Albert László Barabási to Google’s New York office to discuss his book, “BURSTS: The Hidden Pattern Behind Everything We Do” “In BURSTS (April 2010), Barabasi, Director of the Center for Network Science at Northeastern University, shatters one of the most fundamental assumptions in modern science and technology regarding human behavior. Barabasi argues that, rather than being random, humans actually act in predictable patterns. We go along for long periods of quiet routine followed suddenly by loud bursts of activity. Barabasi demonstrates that these breaks in routine, or “bursts,” are present in all aspects of our existence— in the way we write emails, spend our money, manage our health, form ideas. Barabasi has even found “burstiness” in our webpage clicking activity and the online news cycle.” This event took place on June 30, 2010.