I found this amazing video online. The band performs 36 pop songs using the same for chords(I, V. VI, IV chords which make them E B C#m A if you’re in the key of E)
They performed Songs like let it be, don’t stop believing, aicha, she will be loved, with or without you, and many many others!!
Although not every song they sang uses those same four chords. Example Eagle eye cherry - save tonight (Am F C G) and Beatles - let it be (C G Am F). The songs have just been sang to fit the key and use the same chord progression.
The Mobile Phone Orchestra (MoPhO) is a new repertoire-based ensemble using mobile phones as the primary musical instrument. Far beyond ring-tones, MoPhO’s interactive musical works take advantage of the unique technological capabilities of today’s hardware, transforming phone keypads, built-in accelerometers, and built-in microphones into powerful and yet mobile chamber meta-instruments.
MoPhO was instantiated in 2007/2008 at CCRMA, Stanford University, by faculty member Ge Wang, Deutsche Telekom senior research scientist Georg Essl, and visiting CCRMA researcher Henri Penttinen, with CCRMA Artistic Coordinator Chryssie Nanou, 2007-2008 MA/MST students, and generous support from Nokia. MoPhO performed its first public concert in January 2008.
Fawaz Jaber is my favourite Syrian director ever!
He directed many Syrian TV ads with a unique touch that you can’t miss. He worked with many Lebanese models as Nicole Bardawil, Nicole Ballane, Haifa Wehbe, Katia Kahdi, Rania Sabeh and others. He also directed a video clip for Assi Halani and many many others.
Almost all his ads are musicals, with sometimes ripped tunes from famous artists. check out these sample ads:
Saly Tetris
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH_iyWijV44
Na7leh Soap
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH5I1xRmwhQ
Bakiyeh popcorn machine - Featuring Tarazan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=By6_nhzJOCY
Karam Milk - Featuring a jagal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7No9jQHoDg
Al Ghota Laban
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJqzd6qW_OY
Super Crisp (Beat It Michael Jackson) - Feat Nicole Ballane and Nicole Bardawil
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-TbTWcGkVw
Dana Spaghetti - Featuring Haifa Wehbe (1992)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoWhhC6IFj0
Starmix
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LqvPq5TVno
Souplesse Deodorant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p8DhVVAA1o\
Notex
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OUO-QX2esc
Abou Tareck
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dI9ZMlTYew
Mira Tuna - Feat. Nicole Bardaweel, Nicole Ballane
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LokDhP-zyGE
Bakiyeh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBt6BTNMULQ
Malak Automatic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouowfydNMAg
A Compilation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-hh7HiUW1I
The list is long really. Just go to youtube, and search for Fawaz Jaber, or write it in Arabic via yamli.com and you will get a long to enjoy!
I always wanted to be a superhero!! since I was seven, in fact.
I mean, wouldn’t it be cool to have superpowers, always getting the hottie, and to save the UNIVERSE!!
It seems that some people took themselves real serious, and became “real life superheros”, basically vigilantes in spandex with names like Terrifica, Mr. Invisible, Master Legend, and The Ace… That what was published lately in two articles in the Rolling Stone and The Sunday Times.
Although Master Legend was one of the first to call himself a Real Life Superhero, in recent years a growing network of similarly homespun caped crusaders has emerged across the country. Some were inspired by 9/11. If malevolent individuals can threaten the world, the argument goes, why can’t other individuals step up to save it? “What is Osama bin Laden if not a supervillain, off in his cave, scheming to destroy us?” asks Green Scorpion, a masked avenger in Arizona. True to comic-book tradition, each superhero has his own aesthetic. Green Scorpion’s name is derived from his desert home, from which he recently issued a proclamation to “the criminals of Arizona and beyond,” warning that to continue illegal activities is to risk the “Sting of the Green Scorpion!
In recent weeks, prompted by heady buzz words such as “active citizenry” during the Barack Obama campaign, the pace of enrolment has speeded up. Up to 20 new “Reals”, as they call themselves, have materialised in the past month.
The Real rules are simple. They must stand for unambiguous and unsponsored good. They must create their own Spandex and rubber costumes without infringing Marvel or DC Comics copyrights, but match them with exotic names – Green Scorpion in Arizona, Terrifica in New York, Mr Xtreme in San Diego and Mr Silent in Indianapolis.
They must shun guns or knives to avoid being arrested as vigilantes, even if their nemeses may be armed. Their best weapon is not muscle but the internet – an essential tool in their war on crime is a homepage stating the message of doom for super-villains.
Banksy is a famously anonymous street graffiti artist. He has created work around the world with messages ranging from subversive to downright silly but little is known for sure about his background. The graffiti artist, whose work has fetched millions of dollars at auction houses from the likes of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, has never been publicly identified.
Banksy’s art is frequently political, often funny and always outré. He has fashioned a replica of Stonehenge out of portable toilets, spray-painted animals and released an inflatable Guantanamo Bay prisoner doll at Disneyland. He has portrayed Queen Elizabeth II as a chimpanzee, rebranded Warhol’s iconic Campbell Soup can with a Tesco Value logo, and scrawled “Mind the Crap” on the steps of the Tate Britain museum. He also made trip to the Palestinian territories, where he has created nine of his images on Israel’s highly controversial West Bank barrier.
Banksy’s talents aren’t limited to paint and the occasional pencil drawing. He has been responsible for a number of social commentaries involving replacing hundreds of Paris Hilton CDs with CDs of his own creation. He has sneaked his own work into several art museums, including a prehistoric-looking piece at the British Museum which the museum decided to add to their own permanent collection.
For more information about Banksy, you can visit his official website:
