These are two slow-motion videos of a cymbal’s vibration of the pins in a pin art toy after it’s been struck. Man, pin art toys used to be EVERYWHERE in the 90’s. But mostly at Spencer’s. People wouldn’t hesitate to pick one up off the shelf and push their face
This is a video from a 40 Fingers concert of the band’s four guitarists performing the Star Wars theme and Imperial March on their instruments. 40 Fingers “specializes in fingerpicking technique, performing a diverse repertoire of original pieces and covers.” That’s cool, but do you think they’d change their name
This is a video of US Army Band tromboner trombonist and CrossFit trainer Sam Woodhead (my head is recycled plastic) playing the trombone while performing some of his favorite exercises. That’s a deep squat. The last time I squatted that deep I didn’t get back up and I live at
This is a video of bagpiper Ally The Piper performing the the tastiest part of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers theme on her instrument as part of her ongoing series, Does It Bagpipe? I would say that, yes, this definitely pipes. The pipes in my bathroom? They are clearly not
This is a clip of percussionist Joe Porter playing the Windows XP shutdown theme on 15 different percussion instruments in a row, accompanied by a string quartet. It brought back memories. Mostly, of my computer shutting down in college when I was in the middle of doing something important. “Like
This is a video of musician Luna Lee (who I had the pleasure of seeing perform live at Disneyland many moons ago) covering Prince’s 1984 ultra-banger ‘Purple Rain’ on a traditional Korean gayageum. She does a fantastic job — very emotive. Me? I try to show as little emotion as
This is the music video for Louis Cardozo’s ‘Fly’, in which he performs the song on piano while paragliding over the English countryside. Louis says no special effects were used during the filming, just balls of steel and a can-do attitude. “That’s right suckers, no CGI involved in the making
This is a video of a banjo player recording a cover of ‘Climbing Rose Mazurka’ on a wax cylinder set up by collector of the antiquated technology, Wyatt Saab. The recording is then played back so we can hear what a wax cylinder recording sounds like (SPOILER: not hi-fi). Will