You can either treat your fans as a necessary evil, or you can embrace them. The Japanese band Sour went one step further and made their fans the stars of their latest music video.

The concept: ask your fans to do specific actions in front of their web cams, then assemble the individual actions into a complex dance involving people from around the world.

The result:

SOUR / 日々の音色 (Hibi no Neiro) MV from Magico Nakamura on Vimeo.

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70’s meets 80’s.

But don’t stop there. Watch the mashup side by side with the original and marvel at the mashupyness of it all.

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This is fantastic. Rock on violin dude!

Michael Shulman describes himself as a “neo classical shred violinist & dancer”. Whatever it is, I like it.

Last weekend Paula and I were in Space Oddity, a retro antique shop in Ballard, and I spotted a cool, old desk lamp. It reminded me a lot of the type of lamp my dad had on his desk when I was growing up. Since I have his antique desk, I thought, why not get the semi-antique lamp to go with it?

The lamp took two fluorescent bulbs (I hate fluorescent) and the switch on the lamp was broken. But, hey, it was 25 bucks, so why not?

A bit of clipping, drilling and wiring later I now have a retro lamp with some very nice xenon bulbs. The whole thing only took about an hour and a half, not bad for a Reeves project.

Wabbit basking under the clean white light of my “new” lamp.

My phone's camera has a mode where it takes a 3x3 or 2x2 grid of images by snapping pictures in series. Press the shutter button and it starts going. There's the typical camera phone lag to get started and then it takes pictures on its own schedule. I tried it on Finney and here's what I got:

Autopilot for picture taking ain't too bad. It just reinforces the same old "take lots of pictures, you'll get something you like."

What are the odds this Mini driver is a PM who attends a lot of loosely scheduled meetings?

Because I've become "one of those people" I've been taking a ton of pictures of Finney. When you take lots of pictures you often end up with something you didn't quite anticipate.

I took this while he was in the middle of playing with a rope toy. I've decided he doesn't look angry, just mildly insane... and that pleases me.

What's entertainment for a greyhound? Paula took a little video to give you a fairly clear picture: