Watch Art School Confidential for the frustration some artists feel about this.

For those of us who feel exactly the same, there's a lot of humor in someone saying out loud what we constantly say in our heads.

I thought security cameras specifically avoided recording audio because of first amendment problems. It's pretty difficult to legally record what somebody says without their permission.

Maybe the red-handed club has a member that's really into video editing and dubbed everything well. But really, it's fake.

This isn't a coincidence. People go to this type of service and heavy metal concerts for the same reason and get the same high from it.

I never would have thought of making a mashup to point this out. Good job!

I meant "glenn gould style" but ran out of characters. I wasn't trying to mislead, I promise!

Why not get angry about the comments about Tamara Beraia's performance?
http://videosift.com/video/Stacatto-Interpretation-Prokofiev-s-Tocatta-very-hard

I prefer her performance to Huangci's, but I knew it would be hard for people to see past her goofy body language. Somebody there has already made fun of her appearance -- with a little poking, I'm sure you could start a real argument.

If you're searching for things to get righteously feminist about, I think you'll find classical music to be a treasure trove of chauvinism.

There's the embarassing objectification of all female instrumentalists on their album covers: http://sdf.org/l/5ee

There's the fact that until the innovation of blind auditions, women had a hard time getting positions in orchestras: http://sdf.org/l/5ef
(I apologize for Prof. Rouse's being a woman. I don't have time to find an equivalent article by a male to satisfy your demand that women's work not be showcased.)

I apologize for being a pre-70s feminist. I naïvely believe a good way to advance the cause of women is to show them as the equals and superiors of men in as many traditionally masculine fields as possible. I'm sure your method of whining about vocabulary and jumping at opportunities to distort the intentions of others will advance the rights of woman much further.

Please do start a "mascule" channel so that you can mock men by posting videos of them playing piano.

That'll show us.


>> ^fjules:

>> ^Tymbrwulf:
quality the hell out of this video.
This should definitely be put in the femme channel BECAUSE the pianist is a woman. That is quite an accomplishment and that's exactly what that channel is there for.

LOL! So explain to me why isn't there a "male" channel so we can put every video that has males in it in that category? Nice double standards.

I love how Twentieth century music is getting popular on videosift. Bartok and Stravinsky are next. Right? Right?

Why can't I vote for this? Did I run out of votes today?

Yay! My favorite chunk of Beethoven.

It was also used at the end of Zardoz in a creepy way.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zardoz

> This shouldn't be put in "femme" channel just because the pianist is a woman. It just means you distinguish
> genders and think with your dicks. This video is about piano play not genders. And there also is no "male"
> channel. Really stupid.

I'm not too savvy to what all the labels mean and I'd noticed that anything accomplished by women and even little girls got labeled 'femme' on videosift. If it's really inappropriate I'll remove the channel listing.

>> ^bobknight33:

Amen -- You go girl....


I am a practicing Christian and this kind of stuff embarasses me. The good done in the world by the church was done by humble non-glossolalial Christians. Not people having fits in public to get attention and feel righteous. I know the internet is full of unreflective knee-jerk atheists, but that doesn't make any random "Christian" outburst reasonable.

This self-propogating goofy caricature of my religion should not be confused with it. Christians' boss didn't give many direct commands. Here's one of them:

And whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites; for they
love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street
corners, so that they may be seen by others. Truly I tell
you, they have received their reward. But whenever you pray,
go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father
who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will
reward you.

Whoa, whoa, whoa. No discussion of "reinterpretations" of the Adagio for Strings is complete without remembering Barber's choral arrangement of it as an Agnus Dei. I think it's much better than the strings version.

For those living outside the US and/or California, this guy's a California state senator. He's not one of the hundred men in the US Senate who make votes at the federal level. He votes on California laws exclusively.

Hey, some of us wait for our old technology to break beyond reasonable repair before buying new stuff.

Reminds me of the great Kids in the Hall sketch, Screw you, Taxpayer!

At 0:31
wait, what was Edwin A. Abbott's job again...?

Gregor Mendel: a pea farmer who lived in Victorian Austria.