Live at the Lizard Lounge, May 1 w/ Stephanie's Id

May Day (a.k.a. International Workers' Day) falls approximately halfway between the spring equinox and summer solstice.

Traditionally, it's been an occasion for popular and often raucous celebrations, regardless of the locally prevalent political or religious establishment.

This occasion promises to be no different.

So, gather your compatriots, your fellow labourers, your lovers, and your friends;

Come help us make things raucous and popular.

We'll have our Electric Laser Hymnal, our tambourines, and more on hand so be ready to participate as we continue to experiment with ways to bring this crowdsourcing phenomena to the stage. We need your sound and vision.

We will be joined by our good friends Stephanie's Id on tour all the way from their hometown of Asheville, North Carolina.

They're out supporting their new album Warm People (officially out May 19) which is already being hailed as "world class music...at turns hypnotic, anthemic, and contemplative" - Blurt.

Last May when we played with Stephanie at Lizard, we sold the place out. Let's do it again!

Friday, May 1, 2009
Electric Laser People (Cambridge, MA)
Stephanie's Id (Asheville, NC)

@

Lizard Lounge
1667 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA
8:30pm-close
$10 / 21+

proudly presented by:
http://www.ninemilerecords.com/

*** PLUS: We have a NEW music video!!! Check it OUT ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAYEmF5u1hE

electric laser people‘s UPCOMING SHOWS:

Friday, May 8, 2009

for the CNC Music Marathon

All Asia Cafe
334 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA
9pm-close
$7 / 21+ after 10pm

Thursday, May 28, 2009
"Influenza" presented by Powderfinger Promotions - a new monthly show featuring half cover songs & half originals
w/ Giantess and Lovewhip
Great Scott
1222 Commonwealth Ave, Allston Rock City
9pm-close

The Electric Laser Hymnal

We've begun our songbook project as an open google doc. You can always see the latest version here and it will update as we edit it.
We'll always plan on bringing a few copies to shows so you can follow along. Feel frint to print and bring your own if you wish. Chords are included as well if you're interested in playing things at home. We're also including several traditional songs we'll be introducing in our live shows. We look forward to engaging our audiences more in the future.
The document is a living thing. The current version is boranj.

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dcpfp46j_83hhxk73hh

Disco 3000: Official Music Video!!!

Behold, the first official music video from our debut album,
Straight Talk on Raising Kids.
It features our original song "Disco 3000."

First we painted some walls green:

above: painting walls with green paint, circa June 2008

Then, some raw video footage was filmed by our good pals the Awesome Brothers at our space in South Boston during the summer of 2008.

above: The Awesome Brothers (Ashleigh @ left / Luke @ right)

During the cold dark months that followed, the dynamic digital dream duo that is the Awesome Brothers lovingly and painstakingly manipulated each individual pixel with an uncommon meticulousness.

Now it is spring, the tulips are peeking through the soil, and it is once again time to rock with the ones we love, to share our creative inspirations, to get down, and to boogie.

Enjoy!

Copying is fun!

copying isn't theft
stealing a thing leaves one less left
copying it makes one thing more
that's what copying's for

copying isn't theft
if i copy yours you have it too
one for me, one for you
that's what copies can do.

if i steal your bicycle
you have to take the bus
but if i just copy it, there's one for each of us

making more of a thing
that is what we call copying
sharing ideas with everyone
that's why copying is fun!!!!

via boingboing. then a couple other links too.

Extreme LED Sheep Art

Emris, Gerry, Rob, and Bernard make me rather proud to count myself as 1/4 Welsh

Can't sleep?
This is significantly more fun than counting sheep.

What I want to know is, how long did it take to get all those sheep into those LED sweaters?

How do we make models of sharing more successful than models of hiding?

are some dreams more valuable than others?

George Washington's Teeth and Theme Song

His teeth:


His theme song:

George Washington, Michael Phelps and the Defenders of Freedom from Electric Laser People on Vimeo.

Thank you. That is all.

Art of the video remix

If you pay a lot of attention to the internets, chances are someone has sent you the Kutiman Thru-You videos. http://thru-you.com/#/videos/
If you haven't seen them, definitely check them out.

Thought it would be nice to compile some of the other examples of this artform.

EBN hit it big (U2 used vid on tour) with a remix of We will rock you using snippets of George Bush Sr.


Lasse Gertsen was the first youtube one that really grabbed me. He is creator of both Hyperactive and Amateur.


This is also a video mashup which is more similar to Kutiman's use of youtube as a sample source rather than your own footage.

Here is Cory talking about the project.

And here's one from Adam Pelling-Deeves that has some similarity to Lasse's work.

Beats Of Boredom from Adam Pelling-Deeves on Vimeo.

Don't bite the hand that feeds you

Werner Heisenberg was right. You can't observe something precisely if you disturb it.


Ruby-throated Hummingbird Eating From My Hand (Part One) from Russ Thompson on Vimeo.

Just spotted this one on reddit and had to share because it's just so darn cool and beautiful.

Nature really works. So much to learn from simply observing it in action.

if you seek amy - britney hits back with radical transparency

love me hate me say what you want about me but all the girls and all the boys want to if=u=cee=kay=me

honesty and transparency is the theme du jour! c'est magnifique!

we will soon know whether she was right.
if she returns to the top of the charts then we know that yes, people do want to "if you seek amy".

failure is not as clear. it could mean multiple things.
1. radical transparency isn't a successful tactic because people aren't ready for the truth or
2. people don't actually want to if you seek amy.
3. the transparency of the lyrics is overwhelmed by the slick pop style and corporate marketing techniques that turn people off.