Playbutton: Why just play a record when you can wear it too? Very smart– I have a feeling this could be big.

inter // states from Samuel Cockedey on Vimeo.

One of my favorite cities shown off beautifully. Photography by Samuel Cockedy and music by Paul Frankland. Via Hypebeast

This Google Chrome Experiment called The Wilderness Downtown is beyond awesome. Maybe the best piece of digital execution I have seen in several years. If I gave away screen shots, it would ruin it. Sit through the whole song by Arcade Fire, and enter your actual address for best results. Chris Milk, you’re a genius.  Also, don’t touch/click until it asks you.  Just sit and watch.

The Neo Gramophone: Beautiful. Stunning, actually. Currently only available as a sculpture, but how about this for imagination:

Playing vinyl back in the days the gramophone is now able to play your personal musical selection via streaming directly from itunes or directly by loading music on it via bluetooth. A simple subsurface menu (reacts upon touching the menu area) provides easy playing, simple usage like the traditional gramophone. Clean and perfect sound is a must today so the inside of the neo-gramophone features multiple speakers and a subwoofer with the horn as the bass-reflex tube.

Check out this beautiful music video which was made using pyrogprahy (soldering images onto plywood) and stop motion. It averaged five hours of work per second shown.

The song is If I Was King by Dutch indie rocker and singer-songwriter Tim Knol, directed by an Amsterdam hotshot called Sverre Fredriksen. Making of available here.

The fact that these guys keep straight faces playing shoes is impressive.

Somewhere in a top secret location in Tokyo, break beat music duo, HIFANA (composed of KEIZOmachine and JUICY) discovered that Nike Free Run+ running shoes can drop beats like realtime samplers and no other. HIFANA eschewed a part of their regular break beat set up and hooked up the mixers and sound systems to Nike Free Run+ shoes. When bent or twisted, the ultra-flexible Nike Free Run+ drops different tunes and sounds.  Via Freshness Mag

The Kanye West – Street Lights video is gorgeous. Reminds me of walking around Tokyo jet lagged out of my mind.

How do we hear sound in three dimensions?  Check this video out, very interesting. People dancing to sounds moved around a room by a 3D joy-stick. Up to the ceiling and down through the ground.  Sophisticated and futuristic.

David Carson’s new installation show at the Beacon. Impressive, and awesome. See all the individual pieces of the show here. And a video of the opening night guitar smashing here.

In his own words:

I have always been interested in the relationship between destruction and creation.  Fun.

Totally rad music video by Tin Spider Studio.  It’s the new single from Black Noise feat. Lex One, taken from Black Noise ‘EP.02′ on Southern Fried Records.  Just watch it, you’ll see.