Brooke Shields' first modeling job was an Ivory Soap ad, shot by Francesco Scavullo, when she was eleven months old. She's spent most of her life in the public eye, including many years under intense (and, in hindsight, icky and misogynistic) media scrutiny. A new documentary, Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields (streaming on Hulu), provides an opportunity for Shields and others to look back on her life and career, and for the viewer to consider just how gross it was that a child was both sexualized by and pilloried for decisions made by the adults in her life.
posted to MetaFilter by Sweetie Darling at 5:18 PM on April 7, 2023 (31 comments)

Despite being honored by the Smithsonian Institution as "the foremost black gospel songwriter in the United States", and being inducted into the Nashville Gospel Music Hall of Fame, "Nobody talks much about Doris Akers, or even gives her credit for her considerable part in shaping Post-War gospel music composition." (PDF)
posted to MetaFilter by clawsoon at 8:22 PM on December 4, 2020 (2 comments)

For a hip-hop fan, listening to ’60s and ’70s soul albums means regularly encountering familiar breaks. When I first heard “Are You My Woman (Tell Me So)” by the Chi-Lites, I immediately recognized the horns and drums from Beyoncé’s “Crazy In Love.” While I understand that, logically, the breaks in the Beyoncé song are really from the Chi-Lites, I still hear them as “belonging” to Beyoncé’s producer Rich Harrison.

In the first of four posts about music composition, Ethan Hein looks at sampling, hiphop, copyright, the moral rights of artists and the idea that breaks only exists once they're used by a producer, starting out from “They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.)” by Pete Rock and CL Smooth.
posted to MetaFilter by MartinWisse at 7:06 AM on March 10, 2015 (76 comments)

Ever had a song stuck in your head?* Investigations into earworms, musical hallucination and memory are shedding some light on the link between music and memory.
posted to MetaFilter by asok at 11:13 AM on December 18, 2014 (54 comments)

Have you ever wanted to quit your job and head out on the open road? Perhaps long distance trucking might suit you? Yes? No? No worries. We can go on a trip right here and see what the life of a long distance trucker is really like. Being an over-the-road driver has the reputation of being tough and hazardous. Why do they do it? Schneider National 11 Western Regional. Cincinnati, OH to Toledo, OH. Jeffersonville, IN to East Chicago, IN. What truck driving is all about. A Truckers View. An Office With a View. The long haul - OTR truck driving. This trip will be North American-centric, because it's what I'm familiar with. So with that proviso in mind, let's ride. We've got a long way to go and a short time to get there.
posted to MetaFilter by cwest at 5:00 AM on December 13, 2014 (43 comments)

What is the highest number of songs appearing in the Billboard Hot 100 at the same time having butts (or a single butt) as a primary lyrical subject? When was it?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by 2or3whiskeysodas at 10:31 AM on September 9, 2014 (10 comments)

Are you combing Netflix trying to find all the TV shows you missed the first time around? Or maybe you just want to take a nostalgia trip and revist all of the great television that is gone but not forgotten? So much good TV! Problem is, it's not like you can stand at the office watercooler chatting about that awesome episode you saw last night...especially if it first aired in 1994. So what do you do when you want to really mull over an episode you just watched? You listen to some great podcasts with fans discussing in depth your favorite shows, that's what.
posted to MetaFilter by BeBoth at 3:20 PM on July 31, 2014 (19 comments)

The Hausa people of the north of Nigeria like Bollywood films so much that around 20 years ago they started making their own local productions. The films of Kannywood (for Kano, the capital city) feature song and dance - and the incredible music that defines Northern Nigeria: autotuned robotic vocals combined with frenetic drum machine rhythms and intricate, interwoven synths in a hybrid of local styles and Indian influence. Hear a generous sampling of it here.
posted to MetaFilter by flapjax at midnite at 6:15 AM on February 1, 2014 (16 comments)

Israeli musicians present the music of Tom Waits. [Via]
posted to MetaFilter by Rykey at 4:35 PM on November 17, 2013 (21 comments)

I'd like to give a few books as baby shower presents, while avoiding the books that are really well-known. Please share your under the radar gems!
posted to Ask MetaFilter by LittleFuzzy at 11:44 AM on October 9, 2013 (105 comments)

In 1994, the Tampa Bay Times published a riveting story about Kenneth Hardcastle. One of Tampa Bay's civic elites, Hardcastle also had a burgeoning crack addiction and a fondness for underage prostitutes.
posted to MetaFilter by reenum at 2:40 PM on October 13, 2013 (12 comments)

Inside the Making of Dr. Strangelove is a fascinating, informative and often surprising 46 minute documentary that offers a thorough and loving look at the creation of Stanley Kubrick's classic of modern cinema.
posted to MetaFilter by flapjax at midnite at 5:21 AM on August 27, 2013 (3 comments)

Recommend me some Drone Classical.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by doogan nash at 9:10 PM on September 17, 2011 (13 comments)

Phill Niblock. Peter Hansen. Jóhann Jóhannsson. Terry Riley. Distant trains. Find me more gorgeous, drifting, droning horns, please.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by mykescipark at 7:43 AM on September 24, 2008 (13 comments)

40 years ago today, on August 11, 1973, DJ Kool Herc, father of hip hop, innovator and inventor of the "merry go round" technique of dj-ing, threw a back to school party in order to raise some money for school clothes and supplies and changed the course of music history.
posted to MetaFilter by elmer benson at 4:33 PM on August 11, 2013 (15 comments)

Frisk Frugt is "flipping brilliant"
posted to MetaFilter by J0 at 3:49 PM on August 11, 2013 (11 comments)

The Sound of the Earth is sound artist Yuri Suzuki's spherical record project, modeled after a topographic globe of the Earth. The grooves represent the outlines of each geographic landmass. Each country on the disc is engraved with a different sound. As the needle passes over, it plays field recordings collected by Suzuki from around the world over the course of four years: traditional folk music, national anthems, popular music and spoken word broadcasts.
posted to MetaFilter by mykescipark at 2:57 PM on August 11, 2013 (2 comments)

What should you do if you are the target of a PTSD-induced outburst?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Dansaman at 10:48 AM on June 25, 2013 (8 comments)

McKenzie Wark, author of A Hacker Manifesto and Gamer Theory, has turned his attention to the Situationist International.
posted to MetaFilter by whyareyouatriangle at 7:00 PM on June 9, 2013 (17 comments)

Recently, a recording of electronic music allegedly created by an East German Kosmische Musik enthusiast recruited to help the DDR's Olympic training programme appeared. This recording turned out to be a hoax created by two musicians from Edinburgh, but, as such, it is the latest in a long line of ersatz krautrock to emerge in recent years.
posted to MetaFilter by acb at 6:47 AM on June 9, 2013 (18 comments)

What are some songs or clips from songs that slowly build up by adding instruments one at a time and/or by featuring one instrument at a time?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by ch3cooh at 9:24 AM on September 15, 2012 (27 comments)

Top Secret Drum Corps performing at the Edinburgh Military Tattoo 2012. The 25 Swiss drummers and colorguard members were one of the first non-military, non-British Commonwealth acts to perform on the Esplanade at Edinburgh Castle in 2003 and have made several reappearances. Drummers World features more videos, photos and information. (via Miss Cellania)
posted to MetaFilter by madamjujujive at 9:34 PM on March 5, 2013 (18 comments)

Ipad 2 - how to transfer a SUBSET of photos in a folder to an iMac. Problem: can transfer ALL photos, and can transfer handpicked photos, but not a folder of selected photos. Tried iPhoto and Image Capture. [Asking for a friend].
posted to Ask MetaFilter by VikingSword at 10:44 AM on May 17, 2012 (3 comments)

What is the most awesome gift I can give a two year old these days?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by jeffamaphone at 7:40 PM on January 1, 2013 (46 comments)

Ever wished your favorite song could be extended infinitely? Well, today's your day. Behold: The Infinite Jukebox.
posted to MetaFilter by SomaSoda at 12:11 PM on November 13, 2012 (132 comments)

"The "Tugboat" 7" single, Galaxie 500's very first release, cost us $980.22 for 1,000 copies-- including shipping! (Naomi kept the receipts)-- or 98 cents each. I no longer remember what we sold them for, but obviously it was easy to turn at least a couple bucks' profit on each. Which means we earned more from every one of those 7"s we sold than from the song's recent 13,760 plays on Pandora and Spotify. Here's yet another way to look at it: Pressing 1,000 singles in 1988 gave us the earning potential of more than 13 million streams in 2012."

Making Cents: Damon Krukowski of Galaxie 500 and Damon & Naomi breaks down the meager royalties currently being paid out to bands by streaming services and explains what the music business' headlong quest for capital means for artists today.
posted to MetaFilter by anazgnos at 1:42 PM on November 15, 2012 (79 comments)

Icky face-pooping flesh mites are only the tip of the iceberg. You've heard that your gut bacteria are necessary to help you digest, meaning not all germs are bad. Without them, we couldn't digest healthily. But stop and look at how far our interconnectedness with other forms of life goes: 1. Human DNA itself is at least 8.3% ancient viruses; without one of these viruses you could never have been born. 2. Mitochondria in human cells originated when the same type of bacteria that causes typhus disease raided one of our cellular ancestors and instead of hijacking it was pressed into service. (The same origin as chloroplasts in plants from cyanobacteria). 3. Far more of the cells in your body are non-human microorganisms than actual human cells. This relationship is not just interconnectedness. This is integration.
posted to MetaFilter by Sleeper at 3:37 AM on September 13, 2012 (59 comments)

Exploring the audible world:

• How Music Works: Melody, Rhythm, Harmony and Bass. (3 hr. UK Channel 4 documentary).
• The Macaulay Library, the world's largest and oldest library of nature recordings.
• The creative process of industrial sound design and 11 sounds threatened with extinction. The technical challenges of broadcasting the sound of sport and the surprises of “real” sound.
• The woman behind the voice of 200 airports.

posted to MetaFilter by Bora Horza Gobuchul at 12:35 AM on September 7, 2012 (12 comments)

Awkward Stock Videos. Previously. (nsfw)
posted to MetaFilter by Thomas Tallis is my Homeboy at 7:33 AM on August 22, 2012 (11 comments)

Alcoholics Anonymous and similar 12-step programs have recently attracted calls to review their long-standing policies: supporting young people, rethinking transphobia, welcoming agnostic viewpoints, and challenging the need for anonymity.
posted to MetaFilter by divabat at 4:54 PM on July 8, 2012 (149 comments)

SSS is a 1988 experimental film featuring rapid-fire clips of dancers on the streets and junkyards of New York's East Village, "painstaking synched" to improvised music by Tom Cora (cello), Christian Marclay (turntables), and Zeena Parkins (harp). It's by filmmaker Henry Hills, whose official site is here. More collage films here, including Radio Adios, the quick cut-up KINO DA!, Money ("a manic collage film from the mid-80s when it still seemed that Reaganism of the soul could be defeated," with appearances by John Zorn, Fred Frith, Arto Lindsay, Ron Silliman among others), and Gotham, one of three films Hills made for Zorn's Naked City project.
posted to MetaFilter by mediareport at 5:55 AM on May 25, 2012 (11 comments)

The Books were a two-piece band consisting of Nick Zammuto and Paul de Jong. Their albums (Thought For Food (2002), The Lemon of Pink (2003), Lost and Safe (2005), and The Way Out (2010)) consisted of a mixture of found audio, constructed sounds, languid vocals, and traditional instruments, but with a warm, solid feel to the proceedings despite the amount of audio manipulation. The band broke up earlier this year, but Nick Zammuto has released a new album from his new band, the self-titled Zammuto. (The music here definitely shares DNA with The Books, but there's a more electronic feel to them.) When The Books' final album, The Way Out, debuted, the band discussed the genesis of each track on their blog (discussed on MeFi), which was a fascinating look into the creative process. This look continues as, over on a new Tumblr blog, Nick Zammuto has begun telling the story of The Books from the beginning (part two, part three). If you're a fan of The Books, of music creation, or of just how art is inspired, the three parts to date are great reading, and promise more to come.
posted to MetaFilter by Legomancer at 10:00 AM on May 23, 2012 (13 comments)

I'm looking to add some new music to my library, and I am fascinated with 'perfect albums'.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by WinnipegDragon at 8:02 AM on April 14, 2012 (116 comments)

Can you help me find Zen short stories that would be easy for teens to digest? My children have really enjoyed tales like "Stone Soup", "Three Questions and Zen Shorts by Jon J Muth but these have been read over and over and over to them since they were very young. They are getting older and craving more.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by YukonQuirm at 7:44 PM on February 9, 2012 (10 comments)

Looking for a site similar to Todoist.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Brittanie at 12:19 PM on February 28, 2012 (9 comments)

Unf**k Your Habitat. Billed as "Terrifying motivation for lazy people with messy homes", it's more a place to go if you're desperately untidy, you like GIFs, and you want to hang out with people who are averse to tidying. There are challenges and tips. If, like me, the confusion of being a Tumblr and a community is too much, then the about page may be a good place to start.
posted to MetaFilter by zoo at 5:12 AM on February 29, 2012 (54 comments)

Ana White shares hundreds of free furniture plans on her website, encouraging those who may have never built furniture before. Formerly known as "Knock Off Wood" since she had DIY versions of popular retail styles, she changed her name after receiving a cease-and-desist letter from Williams-Sonoma (owner of Pottery Barn and West Elm). An audio interview with Ms. White and a Flickr pool of completed projects. (via Balancing Everything)
posted to MetaFilter by flex at 5:30 PM on February 19, 2012 (24 comments)

Any shortlist of the top wrestling promo botches in history would include Lex Luger's t-shirt and the debut of the Shockmaster. But it is unlikely that anything will ever surpass Hulk Hogan setting up his Wrestlemania XIX feud with Vince McMahon.
posted to MetaFilter by Trurl at 8:33 AM on January 29, 2012 (20 comments)

Swissted New York graphic designer Mike Joyce takes vintage flyers from punk, hardcore and indie rock shows and redesigns them "into international typographic style posters. Each poster is sized to the standard swiss kiosk dimensions of 35.5 inches wide by 50 inches high and set in berthold akzidenz grotesk medium, all lowercase. Every single one of these shows actually happened."
posted to MetaFilter by BitterOldPunk at 1:31 PM on January 11, 2012 (36 comments)

WALK .. is a trippy 1983 journey from one part of Minneapolis to another. It begins with a guy who can hardly move. He slowly gains stuttered motion and utters basic letter sounds, then begins a real and imaginary walk. His journey is from his view - floating. At the end of this walk, he meets a friend. Walk's film surface is hand worked and street noise is composed as music-concrete. 16mm B/W SLYT
posted to MetaFilter by louche mustachio at 7:39 PM on January 7, 2012 (13 comments)

In 1993 in Dharamsala I met for the first time that amazing music performer, perhaps he was a Rajhastan gypsy. Usually he sat on road side from McLeod Ganch to Dhalai Lama residence. This man-orchestra created great atmosphere, sometimes he sang from eternity even didn't notice listeners. In 2004 I came to Dharamsala and people told me that he passed away. This video is dedicated to him and to people who knew him.
posted to MetaFilter by flapjax at midnite at 5:48 AM on December 29, 2011 (7 comments)

Are there any decorating/design blogs that are a little more "realistic" than Apartment Therapy and its ilk? Design resources for the unlucky renter on a tiny budget?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by bleep at 8:01 PM on August 5, 2011 (20 comments)

i didn't go to college. what full-time jobs, other than retail, can i find?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by morning_television at 9:26 AM on December 21, 2011 (38 comments)

Can you recommend great children *non-children* songs?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by gnash at 9:26 AM on March 10, 2011 (73 comments)

Recently, I discovered that I can listen to Internet radio at work (i.e., they're okay with streaming music to my computer). So I wanted to ask the hive mind: what stations do you enjoy listening to, and what do you recommend?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by tallmiddleagedgeek at 4:52 AM on December 9, 2011 (40 comments)

My 10 month old daughter is at the age where she will be more interested in ripping up wrapping paper than the gifts she will get this Christmas. So, in that spirit, what baby-safe things can I set up for her that she'll really want on the 25th, messes be damned?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Alison at 11:49 AM on December 9, 2011 (18 comments)

Intergalactic Beastie Rock, Deadmau5, Depache Mode, Bruno Mars, Ke$ha, The Beatles, Queen, Stardust, Radiohead, Madonna, Chemical Brothers
posted to MetaFilter by rebent at 1:21 PM on November 5, 2011 (32 comments)

Wanwanlink weaves together a sequence of motion in realtime, using fragments of archival footages that are being collected daily. When a human figure appears on the screen, the sound is deliberately distorted into a slow 'wan wan.' This project, with a theme linking to classification and dependency, shall continue to be developed for a very long time. (Footages featured on this website belong to the public domain. Clips were downloaded from http://www.archive.org/).
posted to MetaFilter by bonsai forest at 9:30 AM on October 30, 2011 (14 comments)

Muzak filter: Ernesto Cortazar (1940–2004) was a composer and pianist who was born in Mexico City. According to his wiki page (which reads like it was written by a friend), he composed background music for more than 500 motion pictures. His music is the type you receive in inspirational emails full of kittens & sunsets. So, it is suitable only as background wall of music for those willing to forgo their cultured sophistication. The only time he was mentioned on the blue, was on a pre-Askme Q&A from 2001 about ‘Cool Christmas Songs’
posted to MetaFilter by growabrain at 3:50 PM on July 25, 2011 (4 comments)

Apart from the 'Obama proposes cuts to SS' thread around the start of the month, there hasn't been much in the way of current-event political threads recently, despite a lot of stuff happening around the world (budget crisis in the U.S., and Murdoch in the U.K.) It seems to me that news has occurred in both of these cases which could be thread worthy, and since I usually value political discussion I've been missing their presence on the front page. Have they been made, and then deleted, or is there some sort of sub-conscious urge not to discuss politics right now?
posted to MetaTalk by codacorolla at 7:52 PM on July 19, 2011 (100 comments)