“Political opposition forces are using new technologies to carry out public events – using toys with placards at mini-protests,” Andrei Mulintsev, the city’s deputy police chief, said at a press conference this week, according to local media. “In our opinion, this is still an unsanctioned public event.”

My Lego diarama and doll protestors projects from November were probably some of my favorite projects that I did last year. There’s something incredibly satisfying about leaving these random acts of protest scattered throughout everyday situations, rather than concentrated in one specific area. It’s unlikely these guys saw my newsbin projects, but I still feel a kindred spirit between our projects. Budem zdorovy!

Just noticed that Eric San, aka Kid Koala, has just posted a ton of obscure tracks on Soundcloud and Bandcamp. I’m not positive, but I’m guessing his “MusicLibrary” cuts are intended to serve as bumpers for Adult Swim shows:

Music Library by Kid Koala

His Get Up and Get Down Vol 1 (Cardio Cuts) is a live mixtape recording. The audio isn’t that great, but the mix is pretty solid. I’m particularly happy to hear him sampling Push Button Objects, a rare early cut from Eyedea and Abilities. The beat comes in at 1:56. BTW, if anyone happens to have a decent digital recording of this “Push Button Objects” or the instrumental, please get in touch!

BTW, you’ve heard Kid’s band project, The Slew, right? If not, you can still grab their debut album for free here.

Just heard a few songs by Micachu and her band The Shapes. It’s some fun experimental pop music. Reminds of a mix of math rock and Anticon beat-making, with a laid back Olympia delivery.

The name was familiar at first, but not as a visual artist… It turns out that Brock was the singer/songwriter for the Minneapolis group Work Of Saws. I’m a huge WOS fan, but never knew about Brock’s visual art skills. Check out some of his work:

In 2009 Brock also participated in Make Something Cool Every Day, a prolific period which yielded some amazing art! Scroll through his MSCED section on his blog when you get the chance!:

And of course, here is some of his music with Work Of Saws. Please note, the music on their myspace page is fantastic, but I can’t embed that and there are only a few fan videos on youtube:

Not really a fan of most videosongs, a genre seemingly built around novelty covers, but I really got a kick out of this “Gameboy Music” video that my friend Brett sent me. It’s well done and actually sounds like something I would listen to… of course I have rather odd musical tastes though

Spoiler alert: I really can’t believe he never actually turned on the device to capture some sounds… I wonder if it even works?

I don’t know much about Peter Gabriel. I guess I always knew he had kind of neat videos, but holy-shit-this-video-is-awesome! “Digging In The Dirt” is a creative video… and an awesome song! I really need to check out more of Gabriele’s stuff. Any suggestions?

via Josh Rutner via Artifact Archive

Check out this awesome animated gif of the chiptune artist Bit Shifter. I can’t find any info about the artist responsible for it, but thanks to DeMarko for sharing it on the Twitterhole. Speaking of the Twitters, Bit Shifter also shared a link to a room recording from his recent set PAX East. Also, here is some audio to go along with above animation:

update: The artist who created this awesome .gif is Enso. Here is another neat-o piece he create of No Carrier.

Vi Hart is a self described “mathemusician” that creates videos with a clever mix of math and humor. Though some of her videos, like “Pi Is (Still) Wrong“, are a bit over my head, I can totally relate to How To Snakes. She’s also posted some keen music and math videos on her blog, which focus on interesting remixes of music box compositions. Highly recommend subscribing to her feed.

Possibly one of the coolest movie clips I’ve ever seen ever! As usual, Reddit has the answers.

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I really dig the cultural/context hacking projects that monochrom do. In the above video you can see Johannes Grenzfurthner, one of monocrhom’s founding members, TED talk about experiments with subversion. In this video he tells the story about an Austrian artist named Georg Paul Thomann… who didn’t actually exist.