Trevor Filter works in branding, media and modern culture as an analyst at Siegel+Gale (disclaimer). He lives in New York City. This is his personal tumblelog, which is mostly a conduit for exploring the proper way to use sarcasm on the internet.

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“The End,” by Best Coast (Crazy for You)

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“The Wilderness Downtown,” by Arcade Fire

Arcade Fire have teamed up with Chris Milk and some Google engineers to produce one of the best seamless emotional experiences I’ve seen on the internet lately: an interactive music video for the single “We Used To Wait”—just type in the address of the house you grew up in, and prepare to get wrapped up in the warm, fuzzy feeling of sepia toned teenage angst.

Despite all the extra browser chrome and pop-up windows, this really brings out my favorite part of the internet: creative, personal, and interactive pieces of art that leverage modern tech for new meaning. In that sense, Wilderness Downtown is most similar to Office Max’s holiday elf videos and the related Jib Jab flash presentations, except far, far more polished (and entirely HTML5).

In this case, most of the content for the video is already out there (Google Maps satellite photos), but it’s been repackaged in a fresh and totally unexpected way. Very well done.

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“Psychic City (Voodoo City),” by YACHT

Come on over, we’re having a party for you.

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Lil’ Wayne v. The Office Theme Song

This is so good.

Reblogged from fabledfriction

Source: fabledfriction

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Charting the Beatles Hot. Michael Deal is creating a series of infographics studying the music of the Beatles. Khoi Vinh at Subtraction has this to say: “Some of the work is quite beautiful and, like an increasingly large portion of information graphics these days, quite useless, too.”

Charting the Beatles

Hot. Michael Deal is creating a series of infographics studying the music of the Beatles. Khoi Vinh at Subtraction has this to say: “Some of the work is quite beautiful and, like an increasingly large portion of information graphics these days, quite useless, too.”

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“Run,” by Vampire Weekend

This track, off the new Contra, is very tame but also pretty great. That said, Contra isn’t really hitting me as hard as VW’s first album (at all), but maybe that’s because their sound isn’t as original anymore. I’ll keep listening, but already I’m not as impressed as I hoped I would be (especially with the cute-girl-in-headlights on the cover).

P.S. Another good selection off the new album is “Diplomat’s Son,” which is coincidentally a little more synth-y than “Run,” and since I’ve been getting into that lately (like on the new Yeasayer and also on Neon Indian, for example), I like it a lot.

P.P.S. I’m so indie I called it a “track” and not a “song.” Oh and of course I’m writing on my Tumblr about not liking Vampire Weekend. in lower case. i’m so fucking indie.

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Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenocerous lipdub from Bryan J Busch on Vimeo. Watch this.

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My most-played artists of 2009 (on Daytum, data from Last.fm), including favorites both new and old (Kid Cudi, Yeasayer, Neon Indian, Discovery; Guster, Rogue Wave, John Mayer).

My most-played artists of 2009 (on Daytum, data from Last.fm), including favorites both new and old (Kid Cudi, Yeasayer, Neon Indian, Discovery; Guster, Rogue Wave, John Mayer).