David Bowie/Nirvana’s “The Man Who Offered The World” Performed on the Gayageum, a Korean Instrument from the sixth Century

East meets West, and the Historic, the Mod­ern. That’s what hap­pens each time Luna Lee performs one in all your favorites on the Gayageum, a Kore­an instru­ment that dates again to the sixth cen­tu­ry. We’ve fea­tured her work in years previous (see the Relat­eds under). Above, watch one in all her stand­out performances—a cov­er of “The Man…

Q&A with Joshua David Tarfa, Gies iMSM Graduate

Q&A with Joshua David Tarfa, Gies iMSM Graduate

Meet Joshua David Tarfa, a Nigeria-based senior product supervisor and up to date graduate of the College of Illinois’ Gies School of Enterprise Grasp of Science in Administration (iMSM). In only one 12 months, he accomplished his diploma, secured two promotions at work, and managed his personal freelance design enterprise.  We sat down with Joshua…

David Bowie Performs an Ethereal Acoustic Model of “Heroes,” with a Bottle Cap Strapped to His Shoe, Protecting the Beat (1996)

Not way back I stum­bled upon this pret­ty received­der­ful video of David Bowie play­ing an acoustic ver­sion of “Heroes,” considered one of my favourite songs, and I believed I’d fast­ly share it at this time. Why wait? Seem­ing at Neil Younger’s annu­al Bridge College Ben­e­match con­cert in Octo­ber 1996, Bowie offers us a stripped-down ver­sion of…

Watch David Byrne Lead a Large Choir in Singing David Bowie’s “Heroes”

By means of­out the years, we’ve fea­tured per­for­mances of Choir!Choir!Choir!–a big ama­teur choir from Toron­to that meets week­ly and sings their hearts out. You’ve seen them sing Prince’s “When Doves Cry,” Soundgar­den’s “Black Gap Solar” (to hon­or Chris Cor­nell) and Leonard Cohen’s “Hal­lelu­jah.” Should you dig by way of their Youtube archive, you can too revis­it per­for­mances…

Hear the Jazz-Funk Musical Adaptation of Dune by David Matthews (1977)

Even in case you’ve nev­er learn Frank Her­bert’s Dune, chances are you’ll properly have encoun­tered its adap­ta­tions to a vari­ety of oth­er media: com­ic books, video video games, board video games, tele­vi­sion collection, and naturally movies, David Lynch’s 1984 ver­sion and Denis Vil­leneu­ve’s two-parter ear­li­er this decade. However earlier than any of these got here…

Warner Bros. Lets You Watch 31 Movies Free On-line: David Byrne’s True Tales, Christopher Visitor’s Ready for Guffman, Michel Gondry’s The Science of Sleep & Extra

It’s Fri­day, which implies that tonight, many people will sit down to look at a film with our fam­i­ly, our associates, our sig­nif­i­cant oth­er, or — for some cinephiles, better of all — by our­selves. In case you haven’t but lined up any home-cin­e­mat­ic expe­ri­ence in par­tic­u­lar, con­sid­er tak­ing a take a look at this…

Watch 950 Climate Studies Offered by David Lynch, Straight from His Los Angeles House

Los Ange­les is difficult­ly a metropolis identified for its var­ied weath­er, but when one lives there lengthy sufficient, one does grow to be excessive­ly attuned to its many sub­tleties. (Grant­ed, a number of the native phe­nom­e­na concerned, just like the noto­ri­ous San­ta Ana winds, can professional­duce far-from-sub­tle results.) The late David Lynch, who spent a…

Why David Lynch’s Dune Went Improper: A Comparability with Denis Villeneuve’s Hit Adaptation

Denis Vil­leneu­ve’s latest movie adap­ta­tion of Dune is gen­er­al­ly con­sid­ered to be supe­ri­or to the late David Lynch’s, from 1984 — although even accord­ing to a lot of Lynch’s followers, it may onerous­ly have been worse. In a 1996 piece for Pre­miere magazine­a­zine, David Fos­ter Wal­lace described Dune as “unques­tion­ably the worst film of Lynch’s…

The Extensive-Ranging Artistic Genius of David Lynch (RIP): Uncover His Movies, Music Movies, Cartoons, Commercials, Work, Pictures & Extra

Picture by Sasha Kar­galt­sev through Wiki­me­dia Com­mons As each cinephile has by now heard, and lament­ed, we’ve simply misplaced an excellent Amer­i­can movie­mak­er. From Eraser­head to Blue Vel­vet to Mul­hol­land Dri­ve to Inland Empire, David Lynch’s fea­tures will certain­ly con­tin­ue to bewil­der and encourage gen­er­a­tion after gen­er­a­tion of aspir­ing younger auteurs. (There appears even to…

Freddie Mercury & David Bowie’s Remoted Vocals for Queen’s “Beneath Stress” (1981)

Within the sum­mer of 1981, the British band Queen was file­ing tracks for his or her tenth stu­dio album, Sizzling House, at Moun­tain Stu­dios in Mon­treux, Switzer­land. Because it hap­pened, David Bowie had sched­uled time on the similar stu­dio to file the title music for the film Cat Peo­ple. Earlier than lengthy, Bowie stopped by…

How Magician David Copperfield Made the Statue of Liberty Disappear (1983)

In April, 1983, 50 mil­lion tele­vi­sion view­ers watched the illu­sion­ist David Cop­per­subject make the Stat­ue of Lib­er­ty dis­ap­pear, straight into skinny air. Should you’re north of fifty, you per­haps remem­ber the spec­ta­cle. How did he do it? 40 years lat­er, the YouTube chan­nel Thoughts Blown Magazine­ic Illu­sion demys­ti­fies the large-scale magazine­ic trick, clarify­ing how Cop­per­subject…

David Lynch Releases on YouTube Interview Venture: 121 Tales of Actual America Recorded on a 20,000-Mile Highway Journey

Take a suf­fi­cient­ly lengthy highway journey throughout Amer­i­ca, and also you’re sure to come across some­factor or some­one Lynchi­an. Whether or not or not that concept lay behind Inter­view Venture, the underneath­tak­ing had the endorse­ment of David Lynch him­self. Not coin­ci­den­tal­ly, it was con­ceived by his son Austin, who together with movie­mak­er Jason S. (recognized…