The Outline's Casey Johnson rages at the design of Apple's recent laptop keyboards, where the pursuit of thinness has resulted in keyboards that fail at the sight of a speck of dust, and where the said speck demands complete replacement of the keyboard assembly. — Read the rest
Even though he was suffering from a head cold, Jonathan Mann powered through it to compose and perform his song, "Fuck You, James Comey." The song expresses his feelings for the director of an organization with a sordid history of corruption, paranoia, and racism.
Two years ago today, Jonathan “Song A Day” Mann published this song. It's as timely as ever.
Song-a-Day Man Jonathan Mann whipped up a quickie about those Katy Perry Superbowl sharks. — Read the rest
The 2000th song in Jonathan Mann's Song A Day series is a retrospective that contains every single video from the last 1,999 days. The Kittens in Space video Jonathan so kindly made in my honor, during my treatment for breast cancer, makes a cameo at 2:11. — Read the rest
[Video Link] "The Cat Says The Lid Stays Closed," an animated ditty from the Album "Animals" by Jonathan "Song A Day" Mann. Give him some dough if you like his work.
By Jonathan Mann: "Don't Blow Up The Internet | Song A Day #1939." Don't set us up the bomb, FCC. [Video Link]
Contact the FCC commissioners if you're concerned that the new proposed internet rules will gut Net Neutrality, and change the internet to a less free and less open communications platform: "FCC planning new Internet rules that will gut Net Neutrality." — Read the rest
Friends! Have you heard the good news? A prophet walks among us! He's The Digital Prophet. Video Link.
Editor's note: Just so we're all clear here, I think Shingy's cool.
Since January 2009, Jonathan Mann has posted a song every day. Not five days a week: seven days a week. There is no rest for the wickedly productive. While he makes his living by writing and performing bespoke songs for organizations, Jonathan never stops creating for himself — and his fans. — Read the rest
Video Link. A new masterpiece by Jonathan "Song-A-Day" Mann.
— Read the restLooks like we're going to war again
Looks like we're going to war
Looks like we're going to war again
Syria here come the bombs
You don't think that we do this just for fun, do you?
Singer-songwriter Jonathan Mann, best known as the Song a Day YouTube star, has a cool new project that those of you in New York can enjoy.
"My Super Mario Rock Opera goes up at Joe's Pub this Saturday, August 17th," he says. — Read the rest
Musician Manning Patston used his iPhone's AutoFill feature to create on-the-fly lyrics for a song he's aptly calling "Auto Fill." Siri isn't the greatest songwriter but Patston, to his credit, makes something with almost nothing. I can't help but be reminded of the time Jonathan Mann did something similar back in 2014 for his "Song A Day" series. — Read the rest
Colt Canyon is a sepia-toned masterpiece of pixel art, chaotic combat, and well-crafted character and weapon designs that deepen its simple but refined gameplay. All the same, its difficulty wall has me throwing my hands up in defeat.
It begins with the kidnapping of your partner, establishing a classic western revenge 'n' rescue scenario. — Read the rest
Well folks, Jonathan Mann has done it again.
Jonathan Mann (previously) writes, "Like many people, I've been disturbed by the borg-like tweets coming out of the Amazon Ambassador program. I took a few of the bleakest ones and set them to music. It turned into an incredibly sad song."
Jonathan "Song A Day" Mann (previously) writes, "On 1/1/19 I hit ten full years of writing a song a day. Part of the idea behind my Song A Day project has always been to find the 'good' songs in that pile (10 years = 3,652 songs) and come back to them to rework until they're great. — Read the rest
"Nasty Woman vs. Bad Hombre" is a nifty new number on the nutty 2016 presidential campaign by Jonathan Mann, who writes and publishes a new song every single day, as he's been doing for the last 7+ years. — Read the rest
From our prolific internet songwriter friend Jonathan "Song a Day Man" Mann, a wonderfully catchy little ditty for this shitshow of an election season. The Hillary Shimmy Song.
— Read the restThis dude is coming at me
I just smile and let him be
The dude brought your own rope
He put the bullet in the gun so
I'm just gonna shimmyShimmy Shimmy Shimmy Shimmy
HRC
Shimmy Shimmy Shimmy Shimmy
HillaryHe just keeps on shouting, "Wrong!"
With a couple of days left, Feminist Frequency is about to hit their funding goal for Ordinary Women, a lavishly animated series about women who dared defy their times–and who history hasn't given their dues. Below is the complete set of preview videos for Ida Wells, Ching Shih, Emma Goldman, Murasaki Shikibu and Ada Lovelace; go help push them over the line at Seed & Spark. — Read the rest
The personal is public, and don't you know it.
