K. West's Mix Leakage Ends, We Get The Whole Meal

Kanye's slowly been releasing tracks on his blog of his collaborations with the usual artists T-Pain, Common, Cudi, etc. Now he's put out the entire mix tape and I'm going to link you to that hot spot..

GRAB IT HERE

Track List:

01 Diamonds
02 Poke Her Face (Feat. Kid Cudi, Common, Lady Gaga)
03 We Fight, We Love (Feat. Q-Tip, Consequence)
04 Maybach Music 2 (Feat. Rick Ross, T-Pain, Lil Wayne)
05 Flight School (Feat. T-Pain, GLC)
06 Amazing (Remix) (Feat. The Dream, Young Jeezy, Christina Milian)
07 Imma Be Iight (Feat. Lil Wayne, Joe Young)
08 Doing Girls Wrong
09 Knock You Down (Feat. Keri Hilson, Ne-Yo)
10 Walking On The Moon (Feat. The Dream)
11 Go Hard (Remix) (Feat. Lil Wayne, Jay-Z)
12 I’m The Shit (Remix)
13 Oprah Story
14 Kinda Like A Big Deal (Feat. Clipse)
15 Ego (Remix) (Feat. Beyonce)

Viva La Love Vida (Tay Swift x Coldplay)

Ok.. So I'm going to come straight out with it my latest guilty pleasure has been Taylor Swift. I'm not going to get into much detail about it, but she's been on my recently played list for the past week and has been number one. I came across this tonight, and as some may know I love Coldplay too, so I really enjoyed this, I love collaborations of music. I love them when they are live though, when two or more different musicians, two or more different skills, and two or more different instruments combine songs.

These guys are great, I want to play piano so badly.. I yearn for the keys.. I am making it my goal to learn this summer and then to progress over next year.

Have a listen for yourself and watch this interesting yet beautiful combination of songs.

*EDIT* Here's the MP3 I converted the video for anybody who agrees that this is musical excellence and would like to iPod it.

*EDIT* Ok... So I got a better version of the MP3, lots of people are liking it! That's awesome it's really relaxing and clears your mind.. Respects to Jon Schmidt

Here's the LINKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!

Oh Behance!

Here's some mind-blowing designs I found, they were all uploaded to the portfolio website known as The Behance Network.

There's a few more on this site HERE, but I think these are the best,

Darfur? You Were Wondering..?

Here's a great video I found while I was doing research on Darfur, this Humanitarian worker summarizes the conflict quite well in nine minutes. If you're in Politics, you know this will be great for our next resolution..

WWII Video (Another Francis Original)

So.. Here's a video I made last semester for History: West and the World class, we were creating different pieces for a WWII exhibit, I decided to make a movie, naturally.

Now this video was not exactly my vision, but the response has been good on it, so I'm willing to share it with ya'll. I wrote the script in, well I wrote it quickly in the morning of a Saturday last fall. The message is as clear as I could make it with voluntary actors from school, in my basement standing against a wall. The setup was interesting actually, I wish I had taken a picture of it, a 20" TV in the corner connected to my camera. My tripod and camera with a sketchy directors chair, tape all over the ground where I had to make sure I kept my stuff on because my dad likes to move everything, it's bloody annoying. I had a couch at one end of the room where my actors sat, and then two 1000 watt construction lights beside me facing the wall.

I sat under the camera, with a little remote, I click record and then I stopped it, I repeated this more times than I can remember, and in between each record I would yell at the actors or get up and motivate/encourage them to get into character (which was just to be themselves but with passion..) I believe we did three shooting sessions to create this. I cut out a lot of clips, I mean a lot... The song is by Explosions in the Sky, it was the best choice for length and flow.

Oh and the TV had what the camera was recording in real time so that the actors could see where they were on the screen. It worked very well.

A big thanks to Dominick Dekauwe, Dana Kissondath, Gordy Leslie, Ryan Seager, Herman Singh, Sam Hutchinson, Mike Henry, and Stephen Dustan for being my willing actors! No thanks to Rachel Laird who told me she wanted to come to my basement dressed as a teacher and just be in the video alone in my basement with her and the camera.. She would have been awesome too though.

Apparently, Maxine Schmidt is smooth, this is something I cannot confirm at this point in time, but soon.

Please make sure you watch it to the end if you enjoy it!! It's not done at the picture!!

West and the World WWII from Nick Francis on Vimeo.

WWII Project for the WWII Exhibit in Mr. Melnyk's West and the World History class.



The picture near the end is not the END. It's just a moment of silence. The video continues shortly afterwards.



- Nick Francis

Mid Terms Are In.. Thank God, Check Out This Beauty

This stop motion film is absolutely beautiful. I just saw it on StumbleUpon and I fell in love, it's ridiculously unique and creative. Great use of everything in it.

If you don't like this film, you're a deranged mental person with a stone heart. You should get checked out asap.

Oh and I've got an update for you all, I'm going to have my art and original content soon to flood the blog with.. It's just a matter of getting an open slot of time where I don't want to sleep! Which is almost never, so I'm sorry if you're dying without my spontaneous photography and bizarre videography.. They are on their way.

Wake Me Up When Mid-Terms End..

I have soo much content to put up, but no time, and I don't want to just throw up photos without any text.  So I'm going to try and do small posts in the midst of studying my face off and pumping out assignments for mid-term marks (the ones that universities base their offers on after april 24th? is it? yeah those marks..)

I'd like to direct any of my scarce and random traffic to Liam's blog to grab the new A-Trak album, I haven't had a listen but I will this weekend -> Liam's blog Common Ventures: The World Is Yours

To go along with the title, remember this hilarious video+song! Haha, this guy is a doofus.

Here's the latest of what I call Sethnacred-age which is tunage given to me by Riah and therefore she gets the cred if anybody likes it, so it's this weeks Sethnacred-age

It's an acoustic mash-up, I think it takes a lot of skill to mash up acoustic songs to make them sound good, but you can be the judge of these ones, leave me a comment if you feel so inclined.

Acoustic Alchemy - Norwegian Recycling

How 6 songs Collide - Norwegian Recycling

Until Mid-Terms conclude, farewell.

A Story to Brighten Your Spirits

I found this on my travels through the vast network of jokes materials. I say you check it out because it is hilarious. The title explains it well, you might learn a thing or two about what should be on a wedding menu-- and what shouldn't.

Read it HERE

Feaster This Easter!!

Happy Easter from me personally to everybody stumbling on my blog here!

J. Christ has risen this day.

Respects and love to the Dewitts in Thailand and to the Dewitts in Toronto, Brennan and Mackenzie somewhere in Europe, everybody finishing their year at Guelph/UTSC/Western/Ryerson/York Keele/Glendon/Algonquin/Brock/McMaster/Zakky boy at McGill/Mc. at St. Lawrence/Tim Chan at QUEENS (+Harry/Kerr), to all my Markvillers that I've had the pleasure to spend my actual final year of high school with, to all the MD kids who are still slugging it out in the cancerous window shattering place that I have many memories of, to all those at APC I hear the contada is ridiculous!, to all those at SGT not global mankind ministries or whatever it is now.. To Family and friends who I will enjoy eating cooba with tonight, to Jeber who's in Cochrane and is going to BC soon (it was awesome seeing this weekend man! have fun), to Jerrbear who deserves to have his own chocolate sculpture of himself, to the Coast Mountain team that all hate me because I always smell so fresh when I come in haha, to Academic Vision (doubt you'll see this but it's the wishing that counts), to Akon who will be in the dirty Shwa soon, to my best friend Krystle and her bro Jayson (D-Sype), to everybody who is supporting the Arts4Africa expo, to the guy that helped us rent a chainsaw last year at Home Depot in Huntsville, to Hillsong in Australia, to Barack Obama, to Gordo, to Dave and Steve, and to the rest of ya! Have a bloody great rest of the weekend and if I missed ya, don't worry I just named off whatever came to my mind at this moment, I love you all equally, well some more than others.

EDIT:

and MOM because she bothered me about this, but I guess it slipped my mind to wish her happy easter online when I had spent the whole weekend with her.

I Poke GaGa's Face | Common K. West Kid Cudi

Here's a little something I found a few nights ago, I really hate that poker face song by Lady Gaga, I find it extremely annoying.  But this version is a great sample, thanks to Common/K.West/Kid Cudi.

Check it out

I Poke Her Face - Kid Cudi Ft. Kanye West/Common