Web Sleuth
Direct to your VAIO from the net, here’s Sony Magazine’s pick of the must-see sites
Say it with Bob Bob Dylan’s famous cue-card clip for ‘Subterranean Homesick Blues’ (above) was shot behind London’s Savoy Hotel as a trailer for
Dont Look Back, D.A. Pennebaker’s documentary of Dylan’s 1965 UK tour. Some 40 years later it has been revived to promote the acclaimed compilation
Dylan. Want to write your own message to feature on Bob’s cards? Just click
here and fill in the boxes. You can also send the result to your recipient of choice. If they’re a folk purist, be sure to sign it “from Judas”.
Street magicianThere are pavement artists and then there is Julian Beever, whose imagination is matched only by his cunning trompe l’oeil techniques. A cannier chap might have used such talents to win the Turner Prize but Beever has no pretensions to profundity. His work is intended to amuse and amaze and, as a few minutes
here will demonstrate, he seldom fails to do at least one of those.
The very strange world of Google’s Street View Thanks to its vehicle-mounted cameras, Google Maps’ Street View has delivered a host of frozen urban images that are odd, revealing, comical or (thanks to technological glitches) truly eerie: ghostly apparitions, headless pedestrians, nuclear explosions,
Rear Window-style glimpses of terrible crimes… The best can be found
here at
Wired magazine’s Threat Level blog. Warning: these images may haunt your dreams.
Don’t steal music: buy it for free The idea is simple. Music takes time and money to make, and those who do it deserve to be rewarded. But the web has changed things so dramatically this cannot be guaranteed. Enter We7, with free streaming and free or paid downloads, all of it licensed and legal. The ‘free’ part is covered by revenue from adverts that appear with the free tracks; advert-less versions can be bought at 70p a pop. Sony BMG has signed up, so that’s a remarkable catalogue of music at your entirely legitimate disposal right
here.
What on Earth is that sound? We like this. CD database pioneers Gracenote allow you to pick a country and find out what’s going down a storm there music-wise. Click
here to access the map, then click on the act’s name for further information. For instance, at the time of writing, Indonesia loves Ungu, Peterpan, Yovie & The Nuno, Kerispatih and The Beatles. Well, naturally. Who doesn’t love Ungu?
Something good No, really. It’s a remix of the Utah Saints track of that name, the one with Kate Bush on it, and it has a funny video with not a little sauce to it. Some of us think we saw this idea not so long ago in a deodorant ad. But given that the advertising industry nicks ideas so freely, perhaps it’s a case of the biter bit. Anyway, it contains some self-mocking Welsh humour, has been picking up hits faster than a low-slung
piñata, and our youngest staff member described it as “awesome”, before looking a little embarrassed at sounding like "a 14 year old emo-chick". You can find it
here.
Story by David Bennun
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