culture?

The next two posts are about 2 really good bands and their consumer engagement programs on their websites. Here’s a song where both of them have worked together.

Tapping into a network of chemical – loving midnight marauders all over the world.

Check out Midnight Madness on their website.

watch in the voiceover as the indian girl speaks in her thick accent.

buy flaming lips stuff and win a golden ticket.

Have you ever been asked the “So, how do you say hello in Indian?” question, and instead of being considerate and saying “Namaste”, you decided to play the ‘you ignoramus’ tone of voice and said “there is no language called Indian”.

Following are some other words that are universal in India and can be called Indian.

Here and Here.

I didn’t know urban dictionary had them.  I’m sure if you’re Indian, you’ve used them often enough. If not, I’m pretty sure if you do come down to India, you will..:)

An exchange is what we’re all about. I learn from you. You learn from me. And what emerges is global. I’ve always wondered what the tag ‘world music’ is all about. But as I explore new sounds and try and identify what is me, I find out that the music i listen to has a lot to do with the fact that I am more of a global citizen than the generation before me. I am more wired/electronically inclined than they are, i have western influences in tase, but I am rooted in the culture of my own country. So I have three videos here, that will finally help me define how musical styles and cultures tend to affect each other, and how, what is produced down the line is a new style, more relevant to a more global generation that identifies with it. No wonder the style is often called the global underground.

Video 1: George Harrison of the Beatles, learns the sitar from Indian master Pandit Ravi Shankar. The sitar was then used in many of their tracks, and helped add a new dimension to their sound.

Video 2: Ananda Shankar, brother of Pandit Ravi Shankar, does a version of The Doors ‘Light My Fire’. He is the first Indian artist to adopt Western musical styles with the sounds of his sitar, and also add electronic influences.

Video 3: My generation. The resultant style of the musical coitus of the East and West. Anoushka Shankar. Daughter of Pandit Ravi Shankar, and step sister to Norah Jones,performing a genre of Indian electronica that sounds very global indeed. Its new, its conscious, its universal and its wired.

Apple’s strategy of usineg cliches and stereotypes to de-base the PC (and its users) has finally been attacked directly by Microsoft in this commercial, probably the best out of the three so far in the campaign. Good going. There’s not room for hate and ridicule in this world, and that was exactly what Apple was up to.

The culture of finding out where we are from, is something that is innate in all of us.  Origin, identity and of identifying with another is probably what creates cultures. This scientific project, probably one of the most important in our times, is going to tell us more about our meta identity than any other scientific endeavour. What was the big bang, and how was everything created? The source. Here is a video that explains the Large Hadron Particle Collider, built in CERN. It might tell us about the culture of the universe.