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Best Of 2011, Guest Editors: John Vanderslice On Random YouTube Lectures

As 2011 comes to an end, we are taking a look back at some of our favorite posts of the year by our guest editors.

White Wilderness (Dead Oceans) is the latest album from the San Francisco-based John Vanderslice, and he’s joined on it by the classically trained Magik*Magik Orchestra. MMO artistic director Minna Choi arranged and conducted the Vanderslice-written music on the LP, which was recorded in a whirlwind three-day session by producer John Congleton (St. Vincent, Walkmen, Bill Callahan). Vanderslice himself is no stranger to production, running the Tiny Telephone recording studio for 14 years and having produced records by the likes of Spoon and the Mountain Goats. Now he can add MAGNET guest editor to his resume, as that’s what he’s doing at magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our brand new Q&A with him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-QA2rkpBSY

Vanderslice: How could you go wrong? Let’s start with “The Most Important Video You’ll Ever See (Part 1 Of 8),” where Albert Bartlett tells his (barely conscious) University of Colorado-Boulder audience that the greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function. And you know what? After part eight, you kinda see it his way. But don’t stop there.

Peter Dale Scott of UC-Berkeley on “Oil, Drugs & The Future Of Afghanistan” and Stockhausen on “Sounds” after the jump.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8z4348MYYA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIPVc2Jvd0w