Your own personal music tv channel? Yes, please!

Since MTV these days are more busy with everything in a teenagers life that has nothing to do with music, than actually playing music videos. Since VH1 is not available in a big scale, and maybe you want something really tailored to your taste? Well, I have the answer. Get a last.fm account. let it record what you are listening to. Go to Tim Bormans page. Log in with your last.fm account. And boom, it makes your own music tv channel from videos on YouTube that match the music you have listened to a lot on last.fm. Very easy to get addicted. Before we knew it, one and a half hour had passed... :)

The sound levels change a little of course, so you have to adjust that as you go along, and you sometimes get videos with just a still picture or lyrics, but if you don't want it, you can just skip to the next one. Plus, you get all kinds of delightful live clips!! Enjoy!And thanks, Tim.

More from James Houston

I finally had time to check out the rest of James' profile on YouTube and also found his homepage. You might remember him from an earlier post of mine when I found his version of Nude by Radiohead. This man is just an amazing talent. Click into his hompage or watch another one of his great videos underneath. This is what he says about this video himself:

The virus manifests itself in the form of the colour black, which contrasts against the boring white clinical environments that it infects. The campaign is untitled. It is held together by a concept and aesthetic alone.

It uses the viral property of self-replicating cells to alter the experience of a range of dull environments. In this example, the unseen virus replicates a disheartened office worker. He multiplies and creates a primal and liberating audio composition, thus rejecting the office and embracing creativity. The virus can not be seen although its effects are clearly visible.

The virus infects all of the MTV owned channels (including VH1 and TMF) and works as a drip campaign: as a feature video is played on one channel (in example the office scene), the main infected person creeps over onto the other channels - popping up in music videos, adverts or other content. These unexplained cameo appearances would tease and intrigue the viewer, and only when they see the main feature is everything revealed.

This is the video


MTV from James Houston on Vimeo.