FORWARD LAB

Oneohtrix Point Never | Boring Angel 

Alan Lomax, who was devoted to the archiving of popular folk songs from around the world, amassed incredible and rare recordings from amazing people and places such as chain gangs in the Mississippi Delta. His entire collection has been donated to the association for cultural equity and can be explored and downloaded here.

Volkswagen takes a step towards the future with this inbuilt music generator that matches the cars movements and environment with beat structures and ambient sounds therefore making the driver a musician of sorts. 

Ben Khan | Savage

Who knew that futuristic technology and the Bee Gees could be combined so perfectly.

If you are on the edge of your seat waiting for the new Game of Thrones, or if you are still mourning of the loss of Khal Drogo then this behind the scene video of the Dothraki chief playing slaps with a feeble sound guy might help. 

Ten Figures of speech: Paradiastole, Epanorthosis, Syncatabasis, Grandiloquence, Pleonasm, Synonymia, Auxesis & Meiosis, Paralipsis, Paraprosdokian, and Apheresis/Apocope/Syncope as illustrated by a variety of Monty Python sketches.

Hans Coetzee has mastered a niche guitar playing technique of using a spoon to create pitch bending melodies in his music.

British airways brings is this bit of digital delight, a billboard that that distinguishes their flights from others with the aid of this adorable kid. 

This may look like some alien sorcery is afoot but apparently this gigantic spinning ice disc is just a weather phenomenon that occurs with the combination of a meander and cold dense air. 

Jeanette Hayes juxtaposes internet culture and historical art in vast oil paintings featuring the infamous Youtube "loading" icon as well as iphone keyboards and homescreens. 

Le Treffle shows us how some thing will never be obsolete with this witty Ad. 

Artist Michael Paul Smith recreates vintage car photos using toy car models and clever forced perspective photography. 

Let the soothing voice of David Attenborough talk you through the complicated and strange process of "twerking."