Friday, December 28, 2012

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Yule | The Barr Brothers "Dear Mrs Claus"

Yule | Scientist explains Santa Tech

Yule | Isaac Hayes "Mistletoe & Me" (1969)

Yule | Mel Torme & Judy Garland "The Christmas Song"

Yule | Bela Fleck & The Flecktones "12 Days of Christmas"

Yule | Ella Fitzgerald "We Three Kings"

Yule | Trans-Siberian Orchestra "Christmas Canon Rock"

Yule | Recordings of Christmas Past

Curators at the Museum of London have discovered what they believe to be the first ever recordings of a family Christmas, made 110 years ago by the Wall family who lived in New Southgate in North London. The recordings were made between 1902 and 1917 on wax cylinders made by a phonograph machine.

Absolutely fascinating story. [BBC]

Yule | Listverse "10 Remarkable Origins of Common Christmas Traditions"

From how Christmas itself came about to where Santa came from... another fantastic list by the fine folks at ListVerse!

Yule | Bing Crosby & David Bowie "Little Drummer Boy"

Yule | They Might be Giants "Santa's Beard"

Yule | Walk of the Earth "Jingle Bell Rock"

Yule | Kinks "Father Christmas"

Thursday, December 13, 2012

Crazy Musician | Modern Day Jester live on the London Underground

So... a live busker performance by Modern Day Jester on-board a London Underground subway car. His twitter: @moderndayjester

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Crazy Musician | Matt Andersen "Ain't No Sunshine"

For all my Lunenburg NS buddies out there... Matt Andersen at the Pearl Theatre on October 16, 2009, eh bah?

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Just Crazy | Jonathan Mann & Ivory King "We've Got to Break Up"

Not gonna lie. This is a bit odd. After five years a couple decides to break up, and write a song to explain why to their friends and family, and post it on youTube.

Sunday, December 9, 2012

Crazy Statistician | Andrew Walker "One day of activity..."

Brought to my attention some time ago by the ever-interesting Price Tags... Andrew Walker runs transit information through home-made custom software (based on a program for satellite-tracking software) to create a visualization of the transit activity of one day (4am to 4am) in a city. He started with Vancouver:



And recently came out with New York City.



Both are quite beautiful.