Shot entirely on an iPhone 5S, Olivia Salvadori’s two minute music video manipulates speed to exquisite effect. Her operatic vocals soar as she dances about in one take, gradually joined by a band. The live performance of her track “Moonsun” is eerie, commanding and a great viral use of the new technology. This believer in “vocal experience” certainly delivers.
British inventor Paul O’Leary has developed a product he calls “Zorflex”—a carbon cloth developed to absorb odor. O’Leary uses the fabric in his new underwear brand Shreddies, created for sufferers of severe flatulence. While the shorts for men and women are reportedly rather useful in stopping odor, unfortunately for everyone they do little to muffle sound.
With humble beginnings slinging imported krautrock records from a beanbag-laden hole in the wall in central London, the now-global media empire Virgin Records celebrates four decades in the business with a retrospective of their contribution to both music and visual culture. Though space-traveling billionaire Sir Richard Branson sold the label over 20 years ago, the outfit carried his adventurous, risk-taking spirit. Over the years Virgin’s …
