Matsu’s World: The One Less Traveled

This has got to be one of the stranger things on the Internet (no, please don’t share all of the things that are even stranger). It’s a music video made by prisoners — they dance to Michael Jackson’s Thriller song. Very, very strange.

As if that was not surprising enough, so far the video has been viewed almost 14 million times on YouTube. AND, more than 31,000 comments have been posted.

Exactly what kind of prison warden wakes up one morning and decides to use the inmates to produce a music video? I guess if they don’t have anything better to do…

One week ago from right now I was tired and my body was sore.

Just as I had done in past years, I once again volunteered to be an Ichthus photographer at this year’s Ichthus music festival in Wilmore, Kentucky (USA).

This year I wasn’t able to take photos of the entire three-day event because I was out of town the first two days attending a technology conference in Pennsylvania. But, I did spend the third day out at the festival grounds taking photos for about 10 hours.

It was more difficult to get into it this year since I missed the beginning. But, by the end I was back in the groove and ended up taking over 4,000 photographs.

You can always count on Toby Mac jumping off stage and leaping into the audience. He does that every year.

After Toby Mac played then Switchfoot hit the stage. They did a great job.

And that is just a sample of seven pictures of the 4,200 pics I got. But, you get the idea.

Eight treadmills,

Four men,

One soundtrack.

Now, you’ve got yourself a music video…

Note: I must give credit to Kelly Moore since I discovered it through her blog post. If you haven’t been over to check out her website full of wonderful photography, you really should. She is very talented and the web site is very well done.

In Kentucky (USA), there is an annual Christian music festival known as Ichthus.

The Ichthus music festival began this week. For the past several years (maybe four years) I have been a volunteer photographer and would shoot lots of pictures for Ichthus Ministries. The first night (Thursday night) I was out there well past midnight, then I went to work this morning. After work, I went out to shoot another 1,000 digital photos before I packed it in and headed home. Again, well past midnight. So, I am exhausted right now. I hope this post makes sense.

Tomorrow is the last day of the music festival. I will be there all day to make as many photographs as possible.

The famous and popular music group, Barenaked Ladies, has made available over the Internet one of the new songs that will be on a yet-to-be-released album. What's even more interesting, they make it available on four tracks so that their fans can mix it, themselves. Oddly, they use a MySpace.com account to advertise the band and distribute this new song.

According to their blog site, they plan to do this again in the future. Go here to listen to it yourself. Or, you can mix your own copy.

It's not quite the same as 'open source music' but it's a step in that direction.