Beck is a Yahoo (!)
Word is out...Beck is performing at Yahoo! Hack Day tonight. Should be a great show. I hope to see all you hackers, wizards and geeks there! I won't be there...I've got a sick family to take care of this weekend. :(
Stacey and I caught a live show of his at the House of Blues a couple of years ago after the Oscars. Come to think of it...I think Yahoo! was a sponsor of that party too.
Beck is making news now with the upcoming release of his new album which is breaking all the established rules. In his own words from Wired Magazine...
"We filmed a series of very low-budget, homemade videos for all the songs on the record. We got a bunch of cameras and a $100 video mixer off eBay and shot 15 silly, impromptu videos against a greenscreen. We even invited our friends and family into the studio to be a part of the action – my mother-in-law did the lighting, and my son and nieces and nephews are running around acting crazy. It was just a complete free-for-all, done on the fly. We're putting all the videos together right now with the idea of having a visual version of the record that we'll put on the Internet. I'm totally curious to see how the videos will add to the experience of listening to the album. Or maybe they'll actually detract from the experience. That would be funny."
Since Hack Day is about mash-up's and hacking ... Beck is the perfect pick to celebrate everyone's worthy efforts at Yahoo! See you there!
UPDATE: Flickr hack on Yahoo! Developer Network's blog shows a 'flashy' view of flickr pics with 'hackday06' tag. Check it out!
