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Thanks to our friends Scott and Ian tipping us over Facebook, here’s an excellent music video made by Kutiman called The Mother Of All Funk Chords that’s completely made out of remixed YouTube footage. Apparently, the video itself is spreading through out the Internet faster than the Australian Wild Fire. Check out the Thru-You.com website that hosts additional MV’s, based off from a lo-fi version of YouTube. Excellent!

Bird-Electron Japan released just yesterday urn-looking pottery speakers (via AV Watch Impress). These Japanese pottery objects were made most likely for another purpose, but Bird-Electron went ahead and installed large 50mm drivers in each urn for, probably, some distinctive sound reproduction. Interesting interior decorative idea, these will be selling in Japan for 9,980 Yen (about $110 USD) a pair. Other speakers released by Bird-Electron include these Gourd Speakers. Sure is a different experience listening to your favorite tunes from vegetables.

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This is old news, circa 1969, but with help from YouTube, we now have an royalty free, audio explanation on one of the modern music’s most important and widely used drum loops. The “Amen Break,” a 6 second drum solo by The Winstons, has been sampled, used and reused, even decomposed to spawn different music genres such as Drum-and-Bass, Jungle, etc. The video is a little bit long, and goes on talking about music copyright development, but we at GEDDEM feel it is something that everyone who’s into music should know.

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Our recent topics related to BigBeat artists such as Fatboy Slim reminded me of Chemical Brother’s Star Guitar music video (see above) made by director Michael Gondry (director of The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, also often cited along-side with Spike Jonze).

A closer look at the youtube video reveals the interesting frame of reference effect, whereby all objects appearing on screen synchronized with Chemical Brothers’ electro beats. Gondry deployed the same science in Daft Punk’s “Around the World” MV, this time, with people acting like robots.

And on the other side of the world, Japan based graphic/product design firm Groovision also has their take on frame of reference. Its GRV DVD’s, based on Japan’s very own Shibuya-Kei kind of groove, are looping, graphical music videos best played at a big party through a 60″ flat screen, or that newly imported projector of yours. These wacky animated figures walking around the city chasing after a horse at 116 beats per minute will surely keep your guests entertained.

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So the other day our good friends from Switched reported on a flash mob “silent rave” that shut down London train station. The initiative was a recreation based on an UK T-Mobile commercial (see below) which showed a supposed flash mob randomly dancing in unison in Liverpool Station. See the making of, and you will understand what we mean.

So our question was then, who started this type of half-guerrilla, half-randomness, completely choreographed dance session in public? Our research points to Fatboy Slim. Slim’s famous 1999 music video Praise You (see above), winner of 1999 MTV Music Video Awards: Breakthrough Video, Best Direction, and Best Choreography, was truly an underground classic from the 90′s that probably inspired many more random flash-mobness to come.

Typographer Jonathan Yule‘s really got us this time. Typography + Robots?! Now, that’s the best of two worlds together.

The clean, friendly-looking white robot (named Helbotica) on the left is composed entirely of Helvetica characters. Just like how Gary Hustwit made the Objectified documentary, these font-bots are equally intriguing, if not more “objectified.”

Visit his website for other robots made with Futura and Akzidenz Grotesk, or buy the posters (like we did) from the store. If you like them so much like we did, you can also buy the T-Shirts directly from Chop Shop.

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Audi’s Super Bowl commercials are turning themselves into a culture, a kind that combines elements of filmmaking, luxury German cars, and action stars. So last year Audi debuted its R8 through this intelligent Super Bowl ad (see below) taking from a Godfather scene depicting a murder scene involving one man and his 2 cars. Apparently the new R8 had the audacity to place a dead luxury car head on its lover’s bed.

2009′s Super Bowl was no exception in Audi’s dramatic interpretation of automobile progress (see above). Cycling through iconic autos of Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Pontiac’s Trans Am, from the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90′s, all the way to 2009. Obviously Jason Statham from Transporter 3 behind the steering wheel of a supercharged A6 makes the car look even more aggressive.

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