Things I Think Are Kinda Cool

Rock out to the ‘Book Xylophone’ from the Miraikan National Museum of Science and Innovation in Japan…

-via Curiosity Counts

By now you’ve probably heard some 8-bit “blipped & blooped” music creations composed by uber-geeks using an old-school Game Boy.

Well, this isn’t that…at all:

-via Bit Rebels

Watch this crazy video and enjoy all the high-larious effects of Peyote without the nasty side-effects like…….actually, after a quick wikipedia search, it doesn’t look like there are any nasty side effects!  Hmmm…

-via Kottke

If you like your music with an element of reckless danger thrown in, you’ll appreciate this Cactus Musician’s ‘masterpiece’:

-via Presurfer

Click here to meet more wacky people who have too much time on their hands.

These guys must have sold their souls to the Viral Video Devil, because they just keep creating internet hit after internet hit.  Here’s OK Go’s latest masterpiece, “Last Leaf” -

I don’t know about you, but I’m craving some Toast Art right about now.

Mmmm…Toasty…

‘Clockwork Orange’ meets ‘Romper Room’:

-via Geeks Are Sexy

The birth of electronic music can be traced back to the EMS (Electronic Music Studios), a group of forward-thinking musicians in England who experimented with sounds and techniques to create a completely new genre. “What the Future Sounded Like” is an excellent documentary that profiles this group and the stunning achievements they made. If you’re a geek like me, you’ll love seeing all the vintage computers and mixing equipment that probably seemed incredibly futuristic at the time.

It’s fascinating how most of this music is so timeless and can still hold up today, decades later -

-via Metafilter

***Click here for Part Two and Part Three of the documentary.

Two weeks after D-day, American Colonel Jack Tueller used his trumpet and the power of music to reach out to the last German sniper stalking him on the battlefield.  What happened next might surprise you.

This is his story. (Warning: you might need some Kleenex.)

-via The Daily What

French music producer Breakbot’s latest single “Baby I’m Yours” has a stunning video directed by Irina Dakeva.  It’s made up of over 2000 dreamy watercolor paintings…and the song is pretty good too.  Enjoy:

-from The Culturist (via Buzzfeed)

Music Hack Day brings together computer programmers smarter than you or me to geek-out and develop music-related applications.  The Swinger is one of the awesome hacks created at the event…it can make any song Swing.  In a nutshell, it time-stretches the first half of each beat, and then time-shrinks the second half (it SORT OF makes sense to me, actually).  Some of my favorite examples…

Guns N’ Roses “Sweet Child O’ Mine”

Police “Every Breath You Take”

Daft Punk “Around the World”

Journey “Don’t Stop Believin”

-via Presurfer