Tag: MUSICVIDEOS

Oh, Justin Bieber. How did the Internet even cope before you were around? His music video for 'Baby' just surpassed 500 million views, making it the most viewed video in YouTube history. But with 1.1 million "dislikes," the video also, and ever so slightly, edges out Rebecca Black's 'Friday' for the distinction of most hated. Basically, Bieber's stuff is the most watched, most disliked, and ...

For the last-ever Space Shuttle mission, NASA has decided to let civilians vote on the astronauts' "wake up songs." Voters can choose from a list of past tunes (which includes ironic hits like "Free Fallin'" and "Rocket Man"), or upload a composition of their own. To our NASA friends: we have your solution. We've already rounded up some pretty sweet, spacey jams. Use them, and thank us later. ...

Share That scene in 'Empire Strikes Back' where Luke confronts the Dream Vader in a cave on Degobah, only to realize that he is becoming a hate-filled machine like his father, is a bit like our relationship with technology. Slowly, we become "more man than machine, twisted and eee-vile." As Kraftwerk suggests, we are all robots, motoring along our little programmed paths, using our phones, ...

Share Look, we've said it before, but it can't hurt to be clear: We are all nerds. Everyone at Switched, our friends, our parents, and the musicians we love. Because, to us anyway, being a nerd means looking up and imagining something active and wonderful outside of our little cubicle-walled existences. Be it 'Star Wars' or Sun Ra, a healthy imagination, for the most part, is the realm of ...

digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2010/01/19/music-is-the-future-22-of-the-greatest-high-tech-vids/'; Musicians imagine themselves vanguards, leaders of the path forward. Their music can light the way into the future, bringing revelations that will allow humankind to be elevated to the next level of evolution. Either that, or they just like wearing spacesuits and silver eyeliner. ...

Radiohead have consistently proven themselves to be unpredictable and at the technological forefront of the music industry. Their latest experiment however, takes things in a surprising new direction. The band's new video for its song 'House of Cards' was filmed without any cameras. The media player-visualizations-on-steroids video was created using a pair of 3D scanners: One from a company ...