Changethethought

I was reading about Kris Moyes this morning at Booooooom and stumbled across his video for The Presets at Vimeo. I really like The Presets but I think I like the video even more. Moyes work is really amazing.

If you want to learn more about The Presets you can visit their website here.

written by Christopher | tags: Kris Moyes, Music, Music Video, The Presets

I am really digging the musical stylings of Lykke Li lately. If you have yet to pick up her latest album, I can attest that it is worth every cent.

written by Christopher | tags: Lykke Li, Music, Music Video, Tonight

This song is actually the ringtone on my phone now and has been for a while. I didn’t even realize there was a video out for this and has been for a long time.

I gotta just come out with it and say straight up that I love this band. They feel like the first genuine return of 60’s acid culture, and I have been praying for the day that would come back. Nothing would fly more in the face of the mounting debt, suppressing fear and flat out lies we are being fed by our politicians and corporations. There is something earnest about just admitting outwardly that we all know the system is corrupt and failing, so we should all just love each other and have a good time. Sure it’s irresponsible, but damn it all if it doesn’t just feel right, and isn’t that the essence of the true rebellious spirit that attracts us to rock n’ roll?

Drink that moon juice and rock on into the cosmos MGMT. You got my love waves to help carry you.

written by Christopher | tags: Acid Culture, Electric Feel, MGMT, Music, Rock

Matt & Kim’s star is on the rise. A friend from NYC just emailed me about them and I remember watching another video of theirs earlier last year and have since forgotten to pick up their album. ‘Daylight’ is some pretty catchy shiznit if you ask me. The video was directed by Micah Perta.

written by Christopher | tags: Brooklyn, Indie Pop, Matt & Kim, Music

This is the latest track from frYars featuring Dave Gahan on backup vocals of Depeche Mode. The single is available as a free download from bandstocks.com/visitors and is taken from the forthcoming album ‘Dark Young Hearts’ due for release March 2009. I almost thought this video was a joke at first but these guys are dead serious and how the hell the got Dave Gahan to sing backup is a mystery.

written by Christopher | tags: Dave Gahan, Depeche Mode, frYars, Music, Techno-pop

I don’t really have any details as of yet about who directed or produced this but I dig it.

written by Christopher | tags: In My Eyes, Music, Music Video, Pistol Youth

If I Had a Heart, the first video from Fever Ray’s self-titled album directed by Andreas Nilsson. Fever Ray is the solo project of Karin Dreijer Andersson, from The Knife. Outstanding video.

written by Christopher | tags: Andreas Nilsson, Fever Ray, Music, The Knife

Early in 09, the band Omega Code will release their debut album, along with a book, a DVD and a free series of posters based on their upcoming album “Ω”. A limited number of 2300 posters are going to be printed and distributed around the globe.

Anyone remember that kick ass Tool album that also had a name you didn’t really know what to make of.

23 artists were invited to illustrate the artwork for the project. Artists and designers like Joshua Davis, Si Scott, Mike Cina, Michael Paul Young, Mate Steinforth, Matthew Curry, Nelson Balaban, Tom Muller, Motomichi Nakamura, Danny Franzreb, Robert Lindström, Andreas Pihlström, Chris Hewitt, Hello Hikimori, Sebastian Onufszak, Animatório, Colletivo, Nacionale, Unstru, Tomás Peña, João Oliveira, Peter Jaworowski, Umeric and Doomedo.

You can learn more about the release via Omega Code’s Facebook, MySpace, Orkut and Twitter.

Lets just get out with it already and call 2009 the year of the triangle.

written by Christopher | tags: Freebies, Graphic Design, Music, Omega Code, Posters

Bloc Party’s latest video for the single ‘Talons’ from their third upcoming album Intimacy.

Digging both the song and the video.

written by Christopher | tags: Bloc Party, Music, Music Video, Talons

Directed by Alan Poon for the Bowerbirds. Amazing video.

written by Christopher | tags: Alan Poon, Bowerbirds, In Our Talons, Music, Music Video

N.A.S.A. (Squeak E. Clean & DJ Zegon) assembled an all-star team including Money ft. David Byrne, Chuck D, Ras Congo, Seu Jorge & Z-Trip for this track from their debut album “The Spirit Of Apollo”. The agit-prop video is directed by Syd Garon & Paul Griswold, & features the work of artist Shepard Fairey.

Discovered via my boys at Joyengine.

written by Christopher | tags: Music, N.A.S.A., Shepard Fairey, Spirit of Apollo

Sorry, the video is actually titled ‘Soon We’ll be Found’. My wordpress headline feature doesn’t allow for special characters which sucks occasionally in a critical instance like this. Oh well.

Anyway, I have been looking for this video for a long time and only now realized it was on Vimeo two months ago. Sia is fascinating. I recently saw her on Letterman and kept trying to remind myself to post something about her. I saw a link to the video on Booooooom today and thought I had better post something.

Say what you will but she is one of a kind.

written by Christopher | tags: Music, Music Video, Sia, Soon We'll Be Found

Directed by Martin De Thurah
Featuring Karin Dreijer Andersson from The Knife

written by Christopher | tags: Direction, Music, Music Video, Röyksopp, The Knife

Director Christopher Mills latest video for the song ‘Crooked Legs’ by The Acorn.

Beautiful video.

written by Christopher | tags: Christopher Mills, Crooked Legs, Music, The Acorn

Directed by Dan Brown of Oh, Hello for Handfed’s song Above the Sea. Beautiful video.

written by Christopher | tags: Above the Sea, Dan Brown, Handfed, Music, Oh Hello

I stumbled across this video this morning via Booooooom (which is a absolutely fantastic blog by the way) and was really impressed, not just by the video itself but by the music as well. The video was directed by Seattle-based Matt Daniels (Thinklab) and is for musician Damien Jurado’s song, Caskets. The cinematography is top notch and it’s just a really beautifully shot video.

Full Credits:
Young man: Drake Jurado
Man: Damien Jurado
Caretaker: Jenna Conrad
Doctor: Eric Fisher

Director: Matt Daniels
DP: Mike Ragen
Writers: Damien Jurado, Matt Daniels, Mike Ragen
Art Director: Courtland Premo
Costume Designer: Kira Arnold
Assistant Camera/Locations: Phil Anderson
Assistant Camera (Studio Shoot): Stefan Moore
Makeup Artist: Jennifer Popochock
Editing: Matt Daniels, Joy Andrews
Editing Assistance: Alex Berry, Mike Ragen
Color Correction: Joy Andrews

Production Company: Thinklab
Producer: Jaime Keeling
Unit Production Producer: Michelle Witten

Special Thanks to Mr. Anderson.

More production stills: thinklab.com/dj

written by Christopher | tags: Damien Jurado, Music, Thinklab

“This video uses a mathematical formula based upon an image Escher did (The Print Gallery), known in these days as the “Droste Effect”. It was made entirely using a Digital Reflex Camera, Canon’s Mark III which captures up to 115 continuous pictures, at 10 fps.”

You can also watch the making of the video here.

written by Christopher | tags: Clap Your Brains Off, Music, Music Video

Passion Pit released their EP titled ‘Chunk of Change’ a while back and I spaced writing about it. I think they are great band and really really like their music. I did some album covers for them a while back and was sincerely disappointed that they didn’t like any of them. I think they ended up using art that one of the guys from the band produced himself. That happens a lot when designing for the music industry. It comes with the territory. Regardless, their EP is still fantastic, and I highly recommend picking it up.

You can hear more at their MySpace page as well.

written by Christopher | tags: Chunk of Change, Music, Passion Pit, Sleepyhead