Have a break? from Greenpeace UK on Vimeo.

namely YouTube…and completely fails in amazing own goal, so blogger writes blog about it embedding the video. It’s a bit gory so might not be great if you’re eating your tea (or a KitKat) but really, I never understood why Nestle puts oil into it’s chocolate anyway, making it more like chocolate-flavoured margarine (ugh) otherwise euphemistically known as ‘milk chocolate’ (hence the big battles with Europe to ‘protect’ a pretty foul confection from those ‘interfering Eurocrats’ when I’d rather have nice proper real Belgian choccy anyday).

And what does this mean? Nestle SA owns the copyright on anyone eating a chocolate bar on YouTube? There’s an evil megacorp spot just waiting to be filled when EMI dies, Nestle do you want to fill that hole (just like your chocolate doesnt?)

Anyway this is beside the point; despite trying to ’spike’ the news with a fairly poor ‘well we did anyway a while back but have no proof’ PR flop like trying to ban this video, destroying Indonesian (or any) rainforest for a chocolate bar is not on – you can complain/find out more at Greenpeace’s excellent – and far more infringing, Killer indeed – site.

Oh and Nestle – keep on like this…hopefully you’ll go the way of EMI and take your foul chocolate with you…

Great new video from Dan Bull ‘Home Taping is Killing Music’.

BTW the subject line comes from this graphic which I did for a Second Life t-shirt or an LJ avatar 3 years ago originally, it seems to have spread *ahem Jeb* so here you can have it at higher res

44 years later…Eduard Hil (Khil)? is interviewed about being an internet star and shown the fan videos:

He’s right, it’s not parody, not ironic, not nasty, it’s with love – it makes you smile and never out stays it’s welcome.

I almost DJ’d the Trolololo song on Thursday…I wish I had now. I wasn’t sure how many people knew it – looks like this is world-wide! DJNoNo made this rather silly Trololo mashup for it, a combination of Aphrodite’s (NOT AGAIN!) Wooble and The Bee remix and Trololo – it’s silly, messy, and doesn’t probably work entirely but here, have it and I hope it raises a smile (that’s not hard with Trololo). This will probably not be posted elsewhere so let’s keep it a secret between you and I, eh? Probably for the best, not sure the world is ready for such madness…

And someone has even done an Trololo Audiosurf video already and it even works with that…

Here’s a message from the man himself:

Yes! A cutup/mashup related post! At last!

I’m really digging I Cut People atm – learnt of them via Skip to the End podcast (which learned of them via Mr Fab’s wonderful Music for Maniacs blog) and it’s a cross between Wayne Butane and Cassetteboy in my mind, with probably a little Negativland thrown in for good measure – all of which I love and have played on the podcast. So expect Parker Tapes style cutup merriment, mediabusting style attacks on culture, Hollywood and BUYBUYBUY attitude (as per the video above which is by I Cut People, the audio is by GITAR (i cut people and ellipse elkshow)) and various other audio anarchy.

Looks like I Cut People does a cutup album every year since 2005 – wow – all of which you can download for free or buy – and my favourites are mostly from the more recent albums such as March of the Monster Squads (purporting to be a film trailer for evil zombie Penguins meets Star Wars and phoney plastic Christian Slater LOL), Kung Fu What Would Jesus Do?, A Few Good Product Placements (YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE BACON!) and Merry Chris…Crisis which certainly is up there for Xmas-cutup merriment.

This video for GITAR’s ‘dead u r’ is not really worksafe nor for the squeamish but is very funny and good.

But where is the Potter’s Wheel?

(Those not in the UK/of a certain age might not get the Pages from Google ref. Yes TV stations here used to closedown with a ’selection’ of pages from Teletext – I miss 4-Tel. Fact fans: I once won a 4-Tel puzzle competition, I won some 4-Tel felt-tip colouring pens. WOO!.)