Mike Arauz's Blog – The Archives

Collecting my favorite links, photos, and videos from the week on my Tumblr blog.

Good Magazine has all the important days covered.




Rob Walker covers the story behind this internet-famous poster in last Sunday's NYTimes Magazine.




New York Magazine has the story behind the P.S. 22 chorus. - How Staten Island's P.S. 22 Chorus Got Famous With a Little Help From Perez Hilton

The kids dissolve into giddy laughter. “Poker Face” has become a predicament for Mr. B, now that high-profile fans like celebrity blogger Perez Hilton, Ashton Kutcher, and Mikey Way of My Chemical Romance have helped catapult the P.S. 22 chorus from pride of Staten Island to the best-known elementary-school chorus on the planet. Hilton adopted the group after seeing one of its handheld videos of another Tori Amos song (like Breinberg, Hilton is a Tori-aholic); he later requested a version of Fleetwood Mac’s “Landslide.” That video, released in May, attracted more than 300,000 YouTube hits and an invitation from Stevie Nicks to sing the song for her, in person.

I made this. Will someone put it on a t-shirt?




This is one of the most beautiful stop-motion videos I've ever seen.