So much frenetic energy concentrated into one video, I love it!! Mashups tend to play for comedic effect and are a real hit-or-miss because of that. But this… I like this (full screen)
Michel Gongry’s “Everlong” music video is smart, darkly and always a fun watch, and the song is so damn catchy It makes me wanna jump around and dance every time. I guarantee this five minute love story is one you will never forget:
Inspired by the evocative, haunting atmospheres of the track and the cinema of Andrei Tarkovsky, Ingmar Bergman and Krzysztof Kieślowski:
Directed by Gianluca Minucci / Talent Kseniia Dubovitz Dubovitskaia / Produced by Liana Rae Perez, Catherine Dewar / Prod. Company Mad Dogs Film / DoP Jeremy Kerr / Editor Ian Degrassi / Colorist Mariateresa Ventrella / Costume Designer Lenka Padysakova / Prod. Designer Mike Maggiano […]
I am glad the makers gave credit to their inspirations, as I can definitely see Andrei Tarkovsky’s influence. There is something rich and incomparable about the way in which Tarkovsky framed and captured environments, imbuing them with metaphysical properties that seem to defy time and reason.
Andrei Tarkovsky; so good.
Watch this mesmerizing music video if you like photography, architecture, geometry, juxtapositions, stop-motion animation, and/or just kick’n tunes in general:
Amazing editing work!
Filmmaker Páraic McGloughlin’s abstract music video serves as the perfect complement to the driving rhythm and headphone-worthy sounds of Weval’s track Someday. The imagery and sounds reflect the fragility of our planet, and humanity’s desire to hold on.
“Last year Weval approached me with the idea of developing a music video for ‘Someday’. Upon listening to the track ,which I loved, I had ideas of what I thought would fit. We aimed at creating an abstract journey with a sense of ambiguity holding underlying core concepts […] super happy to put images behind their amazing sounds!”
Here is another crazy music video by Páraic McGloughlin:
Debut album: Telltale Signs by Sobs, released 22 June 2018
Shot in Los Angeles by Gus Bendinelli and directed by Will Merrick.
And one more melodic song from this “Bedroom pop” trio from Singapore:
Footage by Lee Jing Wei, Joshua Loh, Christopher Sim, Dave Wong, JLE Music, PFvideoworks.
This sweet retro-futuristic tale directed by Will Joines, compliments BROKENDATE perfectly with its Blade Runner-esq eighties cop-nior ambience. It takes me back to a time that only exists in memory now, and I’m not concerned at all that that sentence shouldn’t have made any grammatical sense… BROKENDATE is rad.
Director: Will Joines / Producer: Sarah Romney / Cinematographer: Zoë White
How great a name is Com Truise — one of the many pseudonyms of New Jersey designer/musician Seth Haley. Love his melodious synth and the depth of atmosphere he’s able to create with minimal sounds. Here is another favourite — FAIRLIGHT:
Fantastic music video for track by Nosaj Thing and Chance The Rapper, put together by Rhizomatiks and features dancers from Elevenplay. The video uses drones, 3D capture and performative dance to create a sense of alternating between digital and real worlds:
Creative Director + Technical Director: Daito Manabe (Rhizomatiks Research) / Video Director: TAKCOM / Choreographer: MIKIKO (ELEVENPLAY) / Dancer: Kaorin (ELEVENPLAY) & Erissa (ELEVENPLAY) / Technical Director-Hardware Designer-Hardware Engineer: Motoi Ishibashi (Rhizomatiks Research) / Computer Vision Programmer: Yuya Hanai (Rhizomatiks Research) / Drone Engineer: Katsuhiko Harada (Rhizomatiks Research), Momoko Nishimoto (Rhizomatiks Research), Youichi Sakamoto (Rhizomatiks Research) / Video Producer: Takahiko Kajima (PICS) / Video Production Manager: Syuhei Harada (PICS) / CG Designer: Akira Miwa (McRay), Kohki Okuyama (McRay) / CG Producer: Akira Iio (McRAY) / Motion Capture System: Crescent, inc. / Costume Design: Yaepon.
While CG effects are nothing new, the use of little drone cameras to capture the movements of the two dancers teetering on the edge of reality and illusion gives everything a very unique feel. Learn about the making of here >rhizomatiks/coldstares/<
Directed by Tokyo-based media artist, Daito Manabe, who I remember a few years ago was doing interesting things with electronic pulses and facial muscles moving in sync to music:
Interpol is a great band. Can’t believe this is my first mention of them on here. 2002’s ‘Turn On the Bright Lights’ was a good debut album, but it wasn’t until 2004’s ‘Antics’ that I became a fan. ‘Everything Is Wrong’ is from their new, fifth studio album ‘El Pintor’, you may wish to purchase here: http://smarturl.it/interpolelpintor
Hmmm…Time, man…
Kawaii! I was skeptical, but it got funky good from 2:38 on, right to the fade out:
Producer Takashi Murakami / Director Mr. and Fantasista Utamaro / Animation Production NAZ
Not sure about the bikini clad anime girls, but this is a great marriage of funk driven, synth-tastic melodies and hyper-vibrant colours and imaginings courtesy of Japanese artist, Takashi Murakami. In case his name rings any bells, Murakami was producer for “Akihabara Majokko Princess” — the infamous Kirstin Dunst music video made in 2010:
Pure dream logic. There’s something special about hand-drawn animation that I really admire, in tandem with a great soundtrack, — in this case, Cuushe — something beautiful is created; ‘Airy Me’ is something special indeed. The beautifully intricate and haunting video for ‘Airy Me’ was made by artist Yoko Kuno who hand-drew 3000 individual illustrations as the basis for her University graduation piece.
Dream-pop songstress, Mayuko Hitotsuyanagi aka Cuushe, accepted Yoko Kuno’s request to use ‘Airy Me’ — from Cuushe’s 2009 debut album “Red Rocket Telepathy” — and Voilà, synergy. The story tells of a hospital that carries out experiments on its patients, with one metamorphosing into a chimera:
Yoko Kuno has since contributed her artwork for “Butterfly Case” Cuushe’s brand new breath-taking 2nd full length album, coming four years after her sweet debut “Red Rocket Telepathy”:
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British indie-pop singer Polly Scattergood’s “Wanderlust” further proves that a good song and a neat & simple concept executed-well is all a music video needs — A girl behaves seemingly randomly caught in a mesmerizing, immutable loop-cycle, before new elements are introduced giving meaning to her movements:
Her second album release “Arrows” is available on iTunes:
Directed by CANADA; Trying To Be Cool is one of the most ambitious music videos I’ve seen in a long time — it certainly helps that the song sounds great too!
We’ve all tried to exude coolness around someone we liked at some point in our lives:
Would you believe that this performance video was shot live! Though there were cuts between two separate film crews, the music video took place in real-time from start to finish, alternating between cameras. The giant countdown clock visible in the background of many of the shots was used as a practical device for the two crews, telling them how long they had to film their scene while the other prepared to capture the next — Extremely smooth:
I’m going to do that thing I try avoiding when I blog and mix things into one post — I’m reminded of Death Cab For Cutie’s “You Are A Tourist,” which was directed by Tim Nackashi who also directed another favourite of mine, Neon Indian’s “Polish Girl.” This one-take-performance-video isn’t exactly a new concept, but when it is pulled off well the results are undeniably engaging.
These aren’t laser beam dreams, but shapes made from illuminated string! How awesome is that! (I have an urge to play ‘Tempest X’ now)
On their quest for creating classic computer effects without the computer, Dark Matters continues the analogue feel from the “Matter” video.
The new Kenton Slash Demon video, Deamon is the take on analogue wireframes in the same naive universe. An abstract space opera about loadscreens based on Strings and nails.
Perfect walk in the rain music, as I discovered earlier this morning 😀
I have to put my wet foot down and say to the masses that Warpaint is my new band love at the moment. Have to share. Great name too. I’m obsessed with their sound and ethereal three-part harmony vocals, thanks to their newest single “Undertow”
This be the first video from ‘The Fool,’ Warpaint’s mesmeric debut full-length album. I didn’t stumble on Warpaint accidentally; I happen to be a David Bowie fan (who isn’t!), and released late last year was a tribute album in his honour called ‘We Were So Turned On’, a two-disc compilation featuring the likes of Duran Duran, The Polyamorous Affair, Vivian Girls, and of course Warpaint doing an amazing cover of the classic “Ashes To Ashes” (hands down the best track on the album)
Warpaint are a female rock group from Los Angeles (and one Australian), Stella Mozgawa on the sticks/keyboards, Emily Kokal vocals/guitar, Theresa Wayman vocals/guitar and Jenny Lee Lindberg bassist/vocals. They’re a classic rock band success story.
Initially, L.A. lady quartet Warpaint was known more for its actress drummer, Shannyn Sossamon (she played Jocelyn in ‘A Knight’s Tale’ 2001 and featured in The Goo Goo Dolls “Dizzy” video), than for its musical chops.
All that changed last year, when acting commitments yanked Sossamon – whose sister, Jenny Lindberg, is the group’s bassist-vocalist – from behind the kit, and Warpaint went on to release its debut EP, Exquisite Corpse.
It’s quite a fast rise for such a languid group, whose breathy, dusky desert songs (most of which stretch past the five-minute mark) move like slowly rolling clouds.
This band defies stereotypes and “The Fool” is no LA blast of summer fun like the joyous recent product of their contemporaries Best Coast, indeed you sense that P. J. Harvey LPs may have been strewn around the recording studio.
Your kind of sound? Great! I’ll just leave these here for you, and thanks for reading:
Who knew Serenity was in possession of Han Solo’s carbonated body? Fellow geekdom blogger Amy Ratcliffe did! She discovered this gem and shared her finding on her blog Geek With Curves, but I suspect she may have been tipped off by Boba Fett himself:
Heart of Gold – Han Solo in Firefly
Objects in Space – look to the left of Book on the counter
The Message – look above Kaylee’s hammock on the top right
Apparently, the props department jokingly added the statue on set, as the show’s star Nathan Fillion is a big Star Wars fan, and in a bunch of cases, the statue was never caught or removed before filming began. [more]
“There’s a rumor that there’s one hidden in every episode, but these are the only ones I could dig up. It makes me extraordinarily happy to know about this hidden gem in the Firefly ‘verse.” – Amy
I love this video but can’t put my finger on why — A would-be drudgery drive made beautiful:
An experimental take on driving turns multiple trips on the same road into a transcendant experience. Music by Supreme Fiction
I’ve waited two years to see the full version finally online again. Thanks Ahree Lee.
Colours, Lights and Imagination. How can this not be one of the coolest things on the planet! Great track too: “The Bird And The Bee – Again & Again“
I love the Elephant!
I love love love Bird and the the Bee. They have such a cool sound:
This man knows how to squeeze a trigger and shed a damn fine tear. Bruce Willis will be stepping away from acting for good after a recent diagnosis of aphasia — a disorder that affects the brain’s language center and a person’s ability to understand or express speech.
This tribute-music-video is to you, Bruce Willis:
“I’m Bruce Willis” performed by Jeep Cherokee.
He’d probably hate that so much lol.
The video contained clips from every single movie Bruce Willis has ever appeared in…pre 2010… None as iconic as The Fifth Element, or Die Hard, or Twelve Monkeys, or Pulp Fiction, or The Last Boy Scout, or Unbreakable, of course, and I just watched Last Man Standing for the first time with bae and it was good, thank you Walter Hill. (I’m thinking Armageddon or Sin City next)
Be proud Mr. Willis, be Yippee Ki Yay motherfucking prou-😢-proud 😭
Come for the DrAmA, stay for the memeable event.
Personally, I don’t think these two brothers needed to engage themselves in low blow mockery and humiliation. That being said, comedy is disarming for a reason and Chris Rock is a professional comedian. Hollyweird must be a strange and alienating place to keep it together in, but damned if that wasn’t the most passionate live televised outburst not produced on an MTV reality show. …Or was it!?! (#ratings #sponsoredbylookoverherenow)
Like Chris Rock’s professionalism and Will Smith’s West Philly passion, the world responded in memes:
As drummer for the Foo Fighters for over 20 years, Taylor Hawkins has drummed his way through everything from Reading & Leeds Festival, to Radio 1 Live Lounges to sell out stadium shows.
But what does it take to become a drummer? What inspires someone to pick up a pair of drumsticks in the first place? And just how important is the drummer to a band?
In this programme, Taylor gives us a guided tour of his drum kit, talking to Radio 6 Music’s Steve Lamacq about his childhood, his influences, his favourite drum loops, and what it’s like drumming with both Alanis Morissette & Dave Grohl.
In 1999 the Red Hot Chili Peppers released their seventh studio album Californication.
In 2000 the album’s title track was released as a single, and along with it came one of the coolest 3D rendered animated music videos ever to grace the music scene. It certainly stirred emotions and imaginations, and for obvious reason captured the hearts of young gamers around the world. I was one of those dopey kids who had wishful daydreams of what the sixth generation of video game consoles may bring. I remember thinking at the time how Crazy Taxi was the closest actual game to it (today, I think Fortnite comes closest).
Now, some twenty-three years later, developer Miquel Camps Ortezaa took it upon himself to create a free to download video game based on that sweet music video. What began as a two-day challenge to re-create the spirit of those delirious game logic scenes, ended up as seven levels, allowing you to experience the super graphical environments as if you were the shirtless band-mate confronting those crazy hyper heart-pounding dangers.
So… The graphics leave a hell of a lot to be desired 😂 it is janky, but fun, and did I mention, freeeeeeeeee. Download the game for free on Itch.io for Windows PC and macOS to relive the glory days of 2000’s RHCP. Alternatively, you can just watch the MV below.
Although Otherside had the hook I hummed the loudest down the school hallways (and a German Expressionism, Cubism, and M.C. Escher music video aesthetic I could’t get out of my brain), Californication is definitely one of those era defining songs. People will still be finding and enjoying it many years from now. Much like today.
This ongoing saga unfolding in an unnerving plain of existence was first uploaded January 7 2022. That is all I want to know. I mean know, that is all I know 😨
Kane Parsons a.k.a. Kane Pixels, the director and VFX artist responsible for this well put together series of shorts, is 16-years-old. Dude is bound to be offered to make a movie one day, or he’ll just do it himself. https://www.instagram.com/kanepixels/ / https://ko-fi.com/kanepixels / https://soundcloud.com/kane-pixels
YouTuber, film buff, and meticulous editor Duncan Robson (featured on DitB before) was commissioned by the Columbus Museum of Art for one of his celebratory montages. After watching this, you will never not notice a tumbling tumbleweed ever again:
Columbus Museum of Art http://www.columbusmuseum.org/ Music by Joel Robson http://joelrobson.bandcamp.com/music / Sources are listed in closed captions.
The last time I showered was last year…… 🥁 🤡 🤹
(Any other day of the year and that joke just doesn’t land. I have waited decades for the opportunity to drop that line, months spent toiling my time away until the final minute when I would fulfill the sweetest promise of landing that time specific guffaw!, only to forget for another year and another year… BUT I finally did it! Yup. ……I-I’m not stinky, just using a stink joke.)
Going out to anyone who has shouted and made known what was in their heart above all else!!
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