A Toshiba advert, released some time ago, that mesmerizes me every time.

“Timesculpture is a stunning progression of the ‘bullet time’

technique made famous by films such as The Matrix. Rather than showing a 3-D rotation of a still moment, this groundbreaking new filming process manipulates moving snapshots of time using Toshiba technology, redefining cinematic human movement.”

Neat.

From the award-winning documentary, “Playing For Change: Peace Through Music”, comes the first of many “songs around the world” being released independently. Featured is a cover of the Ben E. King classic by musicians around the world adding their part to the song as it travelled the globe.

This cover of Stand By Me was recorded by completely unknown artists in a street virtual studio all around the world. It all started with a base track—vocals and guitar—recorded on the streets of Santa Monica, California, by a street musician called Roger Ridley. The base track was then taken to New Orleans, Louisiana, where Grandpa Elliott—a blind singer from the French Quarter—added vocals and harmonica while listening to Ridley’s base track on headphones. In the same city, Washboard Chaz’s added some metal percussion to it.

And from there, it just gets rock ‘n’ rolling bananas: The producers took the resulting mix all through Europe, Africa, and South America, adding new tracks with multiple instruments and vocals that were assembled in the final version you are seeing in this video. All done with a simple laptop and some microphones.

Awesome vid from cool cats Passion Pit Can’t wait for their album..Should be a keeper.

If I had the money, I d certainly build a house like this, and of course french mad man Planda needs to design it for me exactly like the model. Awesomeness.

Here the temperatures are rising (literally) while the British Pound slowly gets stronger, Jacko gets his auction cancelled and pirates once again try to rule the seas. The only recurrent theme is hard work as we get cracking on the new items for this summer. We got a couple collaboration tees coming up, some fresh new coloured ones for those summer nights and a couple of surprises.

So as the pages on our sketch pads run out, we thought of giving you all a touch of whats to come…