A short by Marvel, Disney and Lucasfilm emoji designer Truck Torrence, made during the recent weeks of California’s stay at home order in which a cute l’il dumpster fire trundles through town during quarantine.
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He’s A Train
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A chooka-train to be precise.
Quentin Smirhes’ scooty-bum lip-synch to The King Singers’ 1975 a capella cover of Albert Hammond and Mike Hazlewood’s ‘I’m A Train’.
This is a thing you will have watched today.
A pleasing symphonic medley of Daft Punk tunes including Robot Rock, Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger, Something About Us, Aerodynamic, One More Time, Doin’ it Right, and Around the World by the UK-based Kaleidoscope Orchestra.
A very pleasing video by James Mabery and Elizabeth Laferrière for ‘Les Choses Invisibles’ by Alfa Rococo.
Do you like Michael Gondry’s video for the Chemical Brothers’ ‘Star Guitar’?
Well, this POV compilation by Thomas H isn’t quite that but it does pair Swiss train journeys with techno. The tracks change, the scenery is lovely.
Full screen for best effect.
Musician Dan Duboque cranks out a very impressive al fresco slide guitar cover of Rage Against The Machine’s ‘Killing In The Name’.
1984
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Get ‘Hova It
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Jay-Z: not amused.
A mere sample of the potential of deep fake audio – a minor digital polish away from indistinguishable replication. In each case, the voices are entirely computer generated by Tacotron 2, a neural network architecture developed by Google.
Copyright infringement? Jay-Z’s record company thought so.
Follow the Vocal Synthesis Subreddit here.
(Pic: Kevork S. Djansezian/Getty Images)
A jaunty, socially distanced rendition of Leroy Anderson’s ‘Plink, Plank Plunk!’ (composed largely of plucked stringed instruments) by members of the Chicago Sinfonietta.