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8 kottke.org posts about Kanye West

 

Kanye is dead

Is Beatle Paul McCartney Dead? Is Rapper Kanye West Dead?

By Jason Kottke  •  Oct 27, 2009  •  Kanye West   music   Paul McCartney   The Beatles

Alexis Phifer

I now know who to thank for Kanye West's wondrous 808s and Heartbreak: his ex-fiancee Alexis Phifer. She's gotta be the Robocop, right? No short-term romance stings that bad.

By Jason Kottke  •  Feb 27, 2009  •  alexisphifer   Kanye West   music

Datamoshing

Two is a trend: Kanye West's video for Welcome to Heartbreak uses the same video compression technique used in Chairlift's Evident Utensil. The videos were done by two different directors at around the same time, which probably means that neither originated it. Does anyone know what the Patient Zero is for this technique? This Radiohead video for Videotape comes close but doesn't use the compression artifacts to cleverly cut between scenes...which is the real artful moment here. (thx, andrew & demetrice)

Update: Here are a few candidates: Takeshi Murata, paperrad, and Mark Brown. (thx, matthew, simon & justin)

Update: Aha, the technique is called datamoshing. (thx, daniel)

Update: There's a bit of datamoshing in this 2005 David O'Reilly clip and even more in a 2005 video made by Kris Moyes (Moyes briefly uses the same technique in this 2008 video for Beck). In 2004, Owi Mahn & Laura Baginski made a video called Pastell Kompressor in which they manipulated the compression keyframes in some timelapse videos. Sven König's two projects, aPpRoPiRaTe! and Download Finished! originate around the same time (2004/2005). The technique itself seems pretty simple...just ignore the compression keyframes during playback. (thx, philip & sven)

By Jason Kottke  •  Feb 17, 2009  •  datamoshing   Kanye West   video

Kanye West and his entourage

Kanye's entourage

Now I can't get the theme song to H.R. Pufnstuf out of my head.

By Jason Kottke  •  Feb 4, 2009  •  Kanye West

808s and Heartbreak

808s and Heartbreak, Kanye West. Everyone's saying how good this is and I concur. Someone stomped on Kanye's heart and out squirted a great album.

By Jason Kottke  •  Dec 3, 2008  •  Kanye West   music

Kanye, Radiohead, mashup

Love Lockdown + Reckoner. Kanye mashed up with Radiohead, I pretty much gotta post it. (via delicious ghost)

By Jason Kottke  •  Oct 29, 2008  •  Kanye West   music   Radiohead   remix   video

This video makes me irrationally happy...I

This video makes me irrationally happy...I watched it four times in a row just now.

It was the freshest move I've ever seen, like he was floating on air.

And yeah, that's Kanye West's Vimeo account. His blog is entertaining as well; a recent favorite post is YOU CAN'T MAKE ME STOP POSTING YAGHTS!!!

Update: Vimeo erased the video because it was not original content so I pointed to one on YouTube. They also erased all but one video on Kanye's account...I guess they were all videos by other people.

By Jason Kottke  •  Apr 9, 2008  •  dance   Kanye West   utahsaints   video

I'm thoroughly enjoying Kanye West's new album,

I'm thoroughly enjoying Kanye West's new album, Graduation. Standout tracks so far: Stronger and Homecoming, although it took me much longer than it should have to recognize Chris Martin's vocals on the latter.

By Jason Kottke  •  Sep 27, 2007  •  Kanye West   music

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