Five nuggets is a series inspired by an accidental collision with a similar project by Tim Ferris, author of The 4 Hour Work Week and Tools for Titans. In this weekly series, I share five things which caught my interest this week through my wanderings, web surfing, researching and time spent on Steemit.
Without further ado, five nuggets which caught my attention this week:
Axis of Awesome is an Australian comedy rock band that is absolutely brilliant.
In this Youtube video (with over 100 million hits), the group performs their most popular routine – the four chord song. In the most brilliant way possible, they show how all the greatest pop hits (Journey - Don’t Stop Believing, Jason Mraz - I’m Yours, Elton John - Can You Feel the Love Tonight, etc.) from the past forty years are composed of different arrangements of the same four chords.
It truly is one of the most awesome musical medleys today.
@firepower Steemit.chat – A Quick Update on Our Popular Communication PlatformWithout a doubt, the first real contact with the Stemmit community of almost every new registrant comes from Steemit Chat. It’s the first place many meet others in the community. It is the first place many promote their posts and receive their first slate of followers.
What I think many miss, is that Steemit, Inc does not contribute any money towards the operation and upkeep of this essential platform, despite having 27,000 users, 643 Public Channels, 450 Private Channels, and 5,867,833 Private Messages sent after only 13 months of operation.
Take some time to learn about this incredible resource.
How do songs, web applications, and YouTube videos go viral and become huge hits?
In this book by Derek Thompson, the science of how things go viral is revealed. Ironically, it turns out the formula for how things become viral hits is the careful mix of the familiar with a dash of disfluency. As much as humans speak of the need for something totally unique, the findings uncovered by Thompson show something vastly different.
At last, we discover why all pop music sounds the same and sucks in general.
In the world of screenplays, this book has become the staple of screenwriters everywhere.
Approximately fifteen years ago, Blake Snyder unlocked the formula for hit screenplays in Hollywood. In this book, Snyder gives a funny, candid look inside the movie business while revealing the formula and elements for the perfect hit screenplay in Hollywood (Seven Immutable Laws of Screenplay Physics, the Ten Genres Every Movie Ever Made can be Categorized in, and much more).
In the same vein of Axis of Awesome, comedian Rob Paravonian, once a Cello player, rants about his most hated hymn – Pachabel’s Canon. In this Youtube clip, he rants about not being able to get away from the dreaded tune, even when trying to listen to punk rock music (layering in the punk rock lyrics over Pachabel’s Canon).
It’s absolutely worth spending five minutes of your life for a good chuckle.
That concludes my #fivenuggets for this week’s episode. Take care my Steemitland friends and until next time…
