Thad Manning's Vox

Discovery of the Week

nobody@vox.com(Thad Manning) — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:26:45 -0800

When you hop around on YouTube, you never know where you will end up. I started the evening watching Juli's Warum video and ended up discovering Aryn Michelle, accomplished classical singer and talented lyricist who is hoping to fund a pop album through SellaBand, an interesting site that provides aspiring artists with a venue to attract fans (believers) and funds.

Once the artist has attained $50,000, an album is cut and each of the contributors of $10 or more gets a copy.

You can find Aryn Michelle's SellaBand page here. Take a listen to her song 'America/I'm Your Wall' while you are there.

According to CD Baby, Aryn has already recorded several albums on her own.

I am including a few video clips from Aryn Michelle's YouTube page to show off her many sides.

First, a video of Aryn singing her song 'I Got Love'.

Next, Aryn singing Verborgenheit at her Junior recital.

Aryn sings Verborgenheit

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A Change of Venue

nobody@vox.com(Thad Manning) — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:41:06 -0800

I am currently giving Blogger a try and have posted several items there. However, I will have to say that Vox is a much more enjoyable platform to blog on.

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Her Morning Elegance

nobody@vox.com(Thad Manning) — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:55:14 -0800

An amazing stop motion video. It can be found here at fubiz.net.

Her Morning Elegance

Update: Yahoo features Her Morning Elegance as millions begin to watch.

Yahoo

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Cheap Wine Bottles

nobody@vox.com(Thad Manning) — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:21:09 -0800

I was watching a ABC News clip on Yahoo describing companies that were profiting from the recession including McDonalds, Hershey and Liquor Stores. Wine and Liquor sales are up it proclaimed and not for celebratory reasons. Fade to a shot of the commentator sitting alone on a couch with a glass of wine positioned behind a huge bottle of cheap, Carlo Rossi wine. Doesn't this look weird? There are lots of cheap wines that come in regular sized bottles. Did they purposefully choose this bottle because it is large and would definitely not be mistaken for a more expensive vintage? Is this meant to be a sign of solidarity with the less fortunate or a subliminal message about the state of the economy?

Another odd feature is that the entire layout of the shot looks like it was thrown together. The table supporting the bottle of wine is too small to belong in front of the couch and has been turned at an angle toward the camera.

On a related note, as I was watching this clip, I received an email from Classmates asking me to renew at the incredible 75% off price of $9.95 a year. I guess they are hurting as well.

Wine

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Best and Worst French Fries

nobody@vox.com(Thad Manning) — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:17:31 -0800

Yahoo's Sarah Fuss ranks the-best-and-worst-fast-food-french-fries by comparing the following brands:

-Arby's Curly Fries
-Burger King's French Fries
-Carl's Jr.'s Natural-Cut Fries
-Dairy Queen's French Fries
-Jack in the Box's Natural Cut Fries
-McDonald's French Fries
-Wendy's French Fries

How do your favorites fare?

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German Rock - Juli

nobody@vox.com(Thad Manning) — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:35:04 -0800

After recently discovering the music of Caramell and Blumchen, I headed back out to iTunes once more in search of something new. I found the album Ein neuer Tag (2006) by German rock group Juli. I am attaching a link to the official video from their song Zerrissen, and the making of "Dieses Leben" video because YouTube won't let me embed it.

Juli Live In Münster- Du nimmst mir die Sicht

Juli Live In Münster - Sterne

Ein Neuer Tag

Juli

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Capucine Needs Your Help

nobody@vox.com(Thad Manning) — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 21:56:02 -0800

Capucine, young star of Vimeo, is hoping to raise money to buy school books for children in Mongolia. She is offering some of her artwork on t-shirts in exchange for your donations. Watch the video below. Then, go to the following link if you want to help out.

edurelief.org/involved/people-capucine

You can view the 'Once Upon a Time' story that the art work is based upon on one of my earlier posts or by going directly to Vimeo.

Capucine for Edurelief in Mongolia

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A Vintage Merry Christmas

nobody@vox.com(Thad Manning) — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 19:47:11 -0800

Another clever video from Jared Foster. You can see more of his work if you follow the Vimeo link at the bottom right of the video below.

Wishing You a Merry 'Vintage' Christmas!

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A Tetris Christmas

nobody@vox.com(Thad Manning) — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 15:15:52 -0800

An interesting little Christmas video by Jared Foster that I found this afternoon on Vimeo.

A Tetris Christmas

This is what happens when we mix photography with Nintendo Tetris, & Christmas.

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Once Upon a Time ...

nobody@vox.com(Thad Manning) — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 19:50:14 -0800

Capucine, the young star of Vimeo, is back with a memorable story. In fact, the story is so memorable that it has attracted the attention of a Hollywood film producer who is quite interested in filming it, with a few changes, of course.

Great fun. Lots of laughs!

Once upon a time

Studio Notes

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