The story of the last great supply of fresh drinking water on Earth. The changes affecting the Great Lakes. A beautiful soundtrack for an epic journey. Now on the web, developed by Jam3, at http://waterlife.nfb.ca/

Winner of the Special Jury Prize at Hot Docs 2009, the film is narrated by Gord Downie, featuring music by Sam Roberts, Sufjan Stevens, Sigur Rós, Robbie Robertson and Brian Eno.

Just enjoy. And think about it.

Source: Osocio

Here’s something a bit different for a change: a web game promoting a music album, at PearlJamTenGame.com. Pearl Jam are known to have pretty demanding fans, and this Papervision matrix puzzle (were you unlock playable tracks) will surely be appreciated, a nice depart from the usual click and listen experience of most music related websites.

As Michael @bigspaceship said last week: we’re barely scratching the surface of what games can be – The Graveyard . This work by Freedom Partners is showing one of the paths that will be trailed by interactive the next few years. Remember that teenagers that spent their high school years playing X-box and PS2 are now becoming the workforce and expect to find the same playful experiences on the web.

Oh, and i missed listening to Pearl Jam.

Here we go again with one more year end list. After 2006 and 2007, this one will be shorter as i’ve bought less albums, using Last.fm and Hype Machine to feed my music habits. Just in time for that last minute Christmas Gift, ladies and gentleman, meet the top 10 albums of 2008:

• Lindstrom – Where You Go I Go Too
• MGMT – Oracular Spectacular
• Hercules and Love Affair – Hercules and Love Affair
• TV On The Radio – Dear Science
• Santogold – Santogold
• Fleet FoxesFleet Foxes
• Sigur Rós – Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust
• Portishead – Third
• M83 – Saturdays=Youth
• Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend

As an extra,  the best Portuguese album in 2008 for Deolinda – Canção ao Lado.

The criteria is totally subjective, based on my listening habits, both online and offline. If you have your own list of best albums of 2008, feel free to share them in the comments.

If you wonder what’s a album list doing in this blog, consider yourself warned: music is a source of inspiration.

One quick post, sharing a few today’s things.

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  After a fast and furious brainstorm yesterday on Twitter, here’s the full list of The 10 Social Media Commandments:
  1. Thou shall not publish partial RSS feeds.
  2. Don’t follow anyone, before starting to follow Scoble
  3. You shall not use n00bie aliases like pawn3d_1982
  4. Remember to renew your domain every year
  5. For six days you shall read your feeds and remember the Sabbath for Facebook
  6. You shall not make Twitter an idol for there is still IM and email.
  7. You shall not steal. Use creative-commons instead.
  8. Honor your reader comments, but feel free to ignore the trolls.
  9. You shall not covet a Page Rank 9
  10. I am Google, your Lord …
• I’m finally attending a Sigur Ros concert tonight. For those who couldn’t make it, enjoy their MoMa concert video.
  
• As promised on my latest Alt.Prt.sc videocast (portuguese only), here’s the link to podcast #5 of The Age Of Conversation, where i team with Efrain, Ernie, Mark, Mike, Cam and Angela, trying to sound interesting with sayings like:
  

  We have to realize that most of the jobs that will be here in ten years haven’t been invented. So it’s hard to set up a curriculum for these new kind of creatives.

  Great work on the podcast, Jay.
  RSS readers have to visit the site to listen the audio

Have a great Tuesday.

The video below has been around for a while, but it was the first one that turned lip dubbin’ into an Internet meme.

Lip Dub – Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger from amandalynferri on Vimeo.

Quite appropriately, it was done by a group of friends who work for internet video startups like Vimeo and CollegeHumor. And the girl at the beginning (Amanda) is really cute.

Liked it? Here’s a few more videos:
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This blog has been too quiet these days, as i enter my second week of holidays. I’ll be back in full strength, but meanwhile enjoy a month old video of fireworks with music by Sigur Ros.

The Fourth from Michael Brodner AKA Bones on Vimeo.

Kanye West seems to be haunting me these days, as i finish listening the Lil Wayne album (produced by him) and now this: Be Kanye.

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Keeping the geek spirit of the latest post, here’s another nerd themed entry, that will get me some low quality hits for using dirty words and references to naked people. How’s that for a post about a nerd ?

Ok, it’s not actually a nerd, but rather N.E.R.D. (standing for No One Ever Really Dies), headed by the small genius Pharrell Williams. He and his team release this June the 10th their new album “Seeing Sounds“, on what promises to be a summer hit. Have yourself some voyeuristic sexy footage for the advance track Everyone Nose … All The Girls Standing In Line For The Bathroom:

So, anyway, they’ve put up the really lascivious promo site Everyone Nose. Lots of booze, hot women and the advance track playing on the background .
On a great partnership with a blog, they plugged in Last Night’s Party and rolled their own party gallery. Or so they thought, since with great fame comes great responsability and (probably) people asked to remove their pictures (altough i still managed to see quite a few).

I guess the Internet is a different party.

Time for a music post, right before a weekend break.

The Belgian electronic duo David and Stephen Dewaele, aka magnificent Soulwax, premiered their documentary “Part of the Weekend Never Dies” at the Royal Festival Hall yesterday.

They filmed 120 shows with footage of 2manydj’s, Tiga, Justice, So-Me, Peaches, Kitsuné, Klaxons and tons of other artists. Check the trailers

Radio Soulwax – Part of the Weekend never Dies – Are You Filming

and enjoy the weekend.