HiPSTER WAVE

So we’ll be competing in the turntable.fm Intel DJ Battle at 9:00pm EST / 6:00pm PST. Visit this link to turntable.fm to join the room with a facebook or twitter account to login! It’s that easy. Then show your love for Hipster Wave by giving “Awesome” votes for the user P. Diddy!

Here are the official details from turntable.fm on the event!

Hurry up and get in the room as soon as you can by clicking on this link, because it has a 200 user limit! It’s already at 80 right now!

ARE YOU TURNTABLE’S TOP DJ?

We’re putting together a party and we need your help. We’re looking for someone to DJ our Intel DJ event on March 10th and we thought it would be spectacular to hold a DJ battle of of the top DJs and let Turntable decide who that DJ will be. The winner will get to spin a (remote) 30-minute set at our SXSW Interactive event as well as a swank ASUS Zenbook UX31 Series Ultrabook powered by Intel. It’s going to be a blast.

Here’s what we’re planning. DJs will be competing in groups of four, with the best DJ from the round advancing. We’re trying to keep the rounds to about an hour, so that’s three five minute songs each. The schedule is going to look something like this:

3/5 – Round 1, Day 1. Four 1-hour-long DJ battles, four DJs at a time; 4 advance
3/6 – Round 1, Day 2. Four 1-hour-long DJ battles, four DJs at a time; 4 advance
3/7 – Round 2, Two 1-hour-long DJ battles, 4 DJs at a time, followed by
The Finals, The two remaining DJs in a 30-minute battle.
3/10 – The Party, The winner of the battle DJs at our event at SXSW Interactive from
7:30-8:00pm

Mike Tyson being in the intro. is mandatory. The synth work could be better, but you’d have to take that up with the song’s producer, Saint Denson.

Lamborghini Aventador from Sehsucht™ on Vimeo.

This video makes it seem like if the world were ending, you’d be happy that you purchased your bright orange Lamborghini Aventador. It’s probably amazing to drive though. From the console, to the handling, to the raw power of a 700 HP engine. At just $376,000 USD MSRP, how can you afford not to have this ride? If the world ends in 2012, do you really want to be without this fine-tuned sporty beast?

Our latest car porn introduces Lamborghini’s new super sports car Aventador with its 700 HP bull power – powerful and classy just like his namesake, Spanish bull legend Aventador – relentlessly fighting the forces of nature in a 3-minute special effect thunderstorm, shot in the Californian desert Coyote Dry Lakebed and directed by Ole Peters.

Client: Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A., Sant’Agata Bolognese, Italy
Brand Marketing Manager: Douwe Hilarius

Agency: Philipp und Keuntje, Hamburg, Germany
Creative Direction: Diether Kerner, Soenke Schmidt
Copywriter: Sandra Eichner, Adrienne Tonner
Art Direction: Rouven Steiman
Agency Producer: Felicitas Stahnke
Consultant: Steffen Schwab

Production: Sehsucht GmbH Hamburg, Germany
Service Production: Slim Pictures L.A, USA
Director: Ole Peters
DOP: Jordan Valenti
Aerial DOP: Kurt Soderling
Pilot: Lance Strumpf
Precision Car Driver: Rich Rutherford
Set Supervisor: Timo von Wittken
Concept Design: Anja von Harsdorf
Art Department Post: Anja von Harsdorf, Axel Brötje, Niklas Ohlson, Stephan Wever
Head Of 3D: Timo von Wittken
3D Artists: Maurice Panisch, Peter Balicki, Hannes Geiger, Felix Geremus, Vitaly Grossmann, Christian Keller, Stefan Galleithner, Christian Schnellhammer
Head of Compositing: Florian Zachau
2D Artists/Compositing: Yacoob Essack, Markus Gratl
Mattepainting / Look Development: Marco Iozzi
Storyboard Artist: Malte Romainczyk
Technical Director: Martin Chatterjee
Editor: Stephan Wever
Executive Producer: Martin Woelke
Producer: Andreas Coutsoumbelis, Jan Tiller
Music: DamienDamien
Sound Design: Supreme Music

Hi, I’m Wiz Khalifa and it’s great that Bing is hooking me up with cash for this commercial just to talk about myself. I am interesting though. Bing is also hooking up Rob Dyrdek for his show Ridiculousness by actually having a portion of the show specifically note that Dyrdek found a video by searching on Bing. Plays the trademarked Bing sound during the segment even. Get money yall. We can’t hate. The background song–”When I’m Gone”–is pretty solid though. Hearing it for the first time now! Dang, we never bought Khalifa’s “Rolling Papers” record. Oops! Even though some of his songs get pretty cheesy, he also has some decent ones.

Back to Bing, though. So someone decided in their ad campaigns it would be best to try to appeal to young, cool and hip audiences. Then they decided that Rob Dyrdek and Wiz Khalifa send out messages that are both cool and positive. Win-win. “Where do I sign this contract?”

Oh, and you gotta love YouTube captions for their razor sharp accuracy…

So here’s something different: Roberta Flack just released a solid album of Beatles covers on February 3rd. Check out the preview above. Favorite songs? “And I Love Him,” and “Here, There, and Everywhere.” If you like the Beatles or not, this is a good record. Roberta Flack is legendary so hearing her cover some Beatles songs is unique and interesting.

“Let It Be” was a good call on the album title as well, seeing as it’s one of the best Beatles songs of all-time.