Casual Fridays

Spotlight: Giant Mechanical Spider Attacks City

Rocketboom Spotlight: La Princesse, a giant mechanical spider documented by Tim Brunsden of Liverpool Stories.

Spotlight: The World’s Largest Record Collection

Rocketboom Spotlight on The Archive, a film by Sean Dunne. Paul Mawhinney was born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA. Over the years he has amassed what has become the world’s largest record collection. Due to health issues and a struggling record industry Paul is being forced to sell his collection. This is the story of a man and his records. View the documentary in its entirety at http://www.vimeo.com/1546186

David Byrne’s ‘Playing the Building’

David Byrne’s interactive art project Playing the Building at South Street Seaport in New York City.

NYC Waterfalls

Joanne takes a look at The New York City Waterfalls, a public art installation by Danish artist Olafur Eliasson

iPhone Supercut

Story Links: Joanne contributes to the madness, er, excitement!..surrounding the release of the second generation Apple 3g iPhone. Bill Gates responds, says uh. List of more Supercuts from Waxy.

Largest Fireworks Display in US

Forth of July, Independence Day Fireworks, New York City 2008 (more explosives than any other display in America), Star Spangled Banner by Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians

The Coney Island Mermaid Parade

Casual Friday: First Day of Summer

Musical Type

Joanne plays the keyboard.

Coney Island

story links: final times for coney island’s astroland, music by kris

Sounds of Chinatown

Immersive composition of looping sounds from the streets of Chinatown.

Spotlight: 28 Hours in Jyväskylä

Rocketboom Spotlight: 28 Hours of Jyväskylä, a time-lapse film shot in high definition video by Neo Kekkonen in Jyväskylä, Finland.

Is This the Way to Amarillo?

Casual Friday: Burger

Video response to Andy Warhol eating a hamburger.

Painting Chewing Gum

Story Links: Artist Ben Wilson paints pictures on chewing-gum left on the streets of High Barnet, North London.

The Phoneheads

Story Links: Rocketboom Spotlight: Super music video, Roll That Stone, in one take with two time frames from The Phoneheads, a drum&bass group from Düsseldorf, Germany. Poor guy never gets to eat.

Bathtime in Clerkenwell

Story Links: Bathtime in Clerkenwell animation by Alex Budovsky, Music: The Real Tuesday Weld with Stephen Coates based on “Sweeter Then Shugar” by the Mills Brothers

Questions No Answers

Joanne meets up with davidjr.com in Union Square, NYC

Glass Harpist in Prague

Story: Rocketboom’s Andrew Baron captures glass harpist, Alexander Zoltan, on the Charles Bridge in Prague, Czech Republic.

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A New York Fairy Tale Continued

story links: A New York Fairy Tale Continued, Music - Tender & Curious by Poddington Bear

Twitter Madness

Story: Twitter Madness. Music: Infinity.

Do YouTube?

Story Links: Joanne hits the streets to look for new videos to watch on YouTube and finds French Kiss New York, Monty Python Philosophy Football, Janet Rocke with U, Janet - Feedback, Kimbo Slice - The heart of a Lion

Encore: Reggie Watts

Story Links: Reggie Watts (music) | Extra: Check back for Saturday episode in Mumbai.

Spring II of II

Story Links: Rocketboom New York City Music Video Week. Joanne visits the first morning of Spring (music).

Spring I of II

story links: Rocketboom New York City Music Video Week. Joanne visits The Orchid Show at the New York Botanical Garden in The Bronx, NY.