Feist - “Comfort Me”, from Metals (2011).

Cannon Bros - “Out of Here”, from Firecracker/Cloudglow (2011).

Happy New Year, everyone.

Moonface - “Fast Peter”, from Organ Music Not Vibraphone Like I’d Hoped (2011).

So Peter loves a girl
The way that only Peter does
He told me all about it on the balcony
When we were high on drugs

(via stg)

Tele-Present Water, by David Bowen.

This installation draws information from the intensity and movement of the water in a remote location. Wave data is being collected in real-time from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data buoy Station 46246 (49°59’7” N 145°5’20” W) on the Pacific Ocean. The wave intensity and frequency is scaled and transferred to the mechanical grid structure installed at The National Museum in Wroclaw, Poland. The result was a simulation of the physical effects caused by the movement of water from this distant location.

#9 in this year’s best projects of 2011 (related: best iOS projects of 2011).

hitrecordjoe:

how can we get genrocks to cut something out of hitRECord?

ohpauline:

jaredgeller:

wow.

avid:

Filmography 2010: This year’s movies have legit transformed my idea of what is creatively possible. To celebrate that, I’ve remixed 270 of them into this giant ass video.

JUST WATCH IT.

Power of REmixing. This is awesome.

Not to be confused with the Trailer for Every Academy Award Winning Movie Ever trailer.

anniehinton:

Some solid quick and delicious sounding recipes.

(I know someone I follow just posted this but I can’t remember who and now I am reblogging without an orignal source, sorrrrry)

Saying “pesto and pasta” is a ten-minute meal because you only consider the time needed to make the pesto is…suspect…but the skirt steak in #9 wins my heart anyway. nomnomnomnomn skirt steak mmmm

The Hype Machine’s Music Blog Zeitgeist 2009 lists the top artists, albums, and songs as chosen by the toughest crowd around: music bloggers.

The most interesting and unexpected facts can emerge from the daily news stories and the Magazine documents some of them in its weekly feature, 10 things we didn’t know last week. To kick off 2010, here’s an almanac of the best from the past year.

My favorites include (3) Moby is related to Herman Melville, (8) the bubonic plague still exists (wtf!), and (98) French babies cry with an accent.

Sadly, the list also includes such fun diddies as (12) Facebook was originally called “The facebook”. Thank you, BBC, for once again proving your irrelevance as a resource for technology news. Oh, and welcome to 2004.

Also known as “The Books Spencer Will Be Reading This Year”? (Probably not…)

If anyone is out of ideas on what to buy me for the holidays, the above book would do just fine. Momofuku, by David Chang and Peter Meehan, “covers three of his restaurants, almost all their recipes, and still has room to meditate on his rise to greatness.”

It was good enough to win Best Overall in Eat Me Daily’s Best Cookbooks of 2009 Roundup, and it’s good enough for me.

In preparation for his yearly Best Albums list, Mitch Clem has called out to his throngs of fans for some suggestions of albums he may of missed. What ensues is four pages of Top Five Best Albums of 2008 lists slanting heavily toward punk and hardcore.

Mitch Clem is the creator of Nothing Nice to Say, a long-running webcomic following the life of two punks, and other awesomeness. Last years Best Albums list began at #10 and made its way down in comic form. By the way, I’d trust the man. He’s been very very right in the past.

Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources has gathered their favorite comics of the year. I, ashamedly, know hardly any, but can happily add my recommendation to some of the mainstream titles (Captain America, Fables) and to Tim O’Shea’s clever nod to ACT-I-VATE. And though I have not read it, I put the full weight of Undress Me Robot behind endorsing Jeff Lemire’s The Country Nurse, the third part of his Essex County trilogy. The first part, Tales From The Farm, and the small vignettes up on Top Shelf 2.0 are enough to win my endorsement.

Oh, wait, not allowed to say that anymore. This year on Lake Superior State University’s List of Banished Words, right alongside “green”, “bailout”, and “winner of five nominations”. Making the rounds since 1976 (not as notable as 1776, but still), LSSU also conveniently provides an alphabetical list of every word ever banished.

The most controversial inclusion will surely forever be 1986’s “R”.

30. New York Times Blogs

22. Very Small Array

13. The Big Picture

8. xkcd (alright Fimoculous, now you’re stretching it)

1. Undress Me Robot