This is the music video for Little Criminals (Randy Newman).
You can download the free EP at JonHardy.com
Credits:
Director : Tony Gaddis : thefountainstudio.com
Director of Photography : Andrew Cutraro : cutraro.com
This is a really beautiful song and there is a genuine beauty to the video as well. It is definitely a touch psychedelic, but the tone is kept dreamy and surreal enough to make it commercially palatable (beautiful commercial art).
Credits:
director: a nice idea every day (vivien weyrauch & me)
dop: julia franken
producer: lennart selle
This is the official music video for ‘Ljósið’ taken from Ólafur Arnalds – ‘Found Songs’. It’s rather hypnotic and would probably make for a nice backdrop at a party.
Credits:
Director: Esteban Diácono
Label: Erased Tapes Records
Year: 2009
Album: Found Songs
Length: 3’30’’
Music written by: Ólafur Arnalds
Publisher: Nettwerk One
Copyright: © 2009 Erased Tapes Records.
Website: foundsongs.erasedtapes.com
It’s kind of like someone threw a crazy math sci-fi geometry halloween theme party and handed out some mad hatter acid tabs. I do love the vocals though. Who said Wasilla, Alaska’s only export was Sarah Palin anyway? Portugal. The Man is fine by me, even though they still ended up escaping to Portland.
Credits and info:
From the album “The Satanic Satanist”
Director: Ryan Rothermel
Director of Photography: Michael Ragen
2nd Unit DP: Billy Summers
Gaffer: Billy Summers
AD: Robbie Johnstone
Producer: Rebecca Davis
Key Grip: Matt Levinthal
Editor: Dave Molloy
Production Design and Fabrication: Freedomchild, Ryan Rothermel, Chloé McLennan, Dennis Annotti
Hair and Makeup: Jennifer Popochock
Costume Designer: John Gourley
Grip: Chloé McLennan, Jack Strain, Tyler Michaud, J Baab, Tristan Seniuk
Special thanks to Cory Murchy and Annie Salditt.
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Order The Satanic Satanist record here
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Youtube HD located here
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The Flaming Lips “I Can Be A Frog”
This is the latest video from the Flaming Lips. It features a nice looking young lady in a bikini doing animal impersonations. Everyone loves animals and bikinis. Personally, I have always loved The Flaming Lips.
This isn’t new per se but it appears to be new to Vimeo. Regardless it is an amazing video for one of my all time favorite front men. As opposed to me butchering an already lengthy description, get down on this copy and paste action instead:
“Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke describes this song as his most political work. “Harrowdown Hill,” is part of Yorke’s solo album, “The Eraser,” which released in August 2006. After seeing the short films of Chel White, Yorke sought him out to direct his next music video.
White, who is co-founder of Bent Image Lab in Portland, OR, chose to incorporate an innovative technique that he and the rest of the Bent artists had been researching previous to this project. Dubbed Smallgantics, the technique takes footage of large objects (rivers, factories, city skylines) and makes them appear as though they are actually miniatures. In “Harrowdown Hill,” Chel used aerial footage from the pacific north west to be miniaturized using Smallgantics.
The process involves splitting the footage up into several vertical planes that move back over the perceived z-axis, or into the image along its perceived depth. These planes are then affected with varying degrees of blur to simulate a shallow depth of field. If done right, the amount of blur increases smoothly as it moves along the planes of the image. Next, these levels of blur are animated to simulate a change in focus or to compensate for the forward movement of the camera.
Chel White’s video for Thom Yorke’s, “Harrowdown Hill,” won Best Music Video at South by Southwest (SXSW) 2007, ResFest 10, and The Worldwide Short Film Festival. It was nominated for Best Music Video and Best Special Effects at MVPA and FutureShorts.”
Credits:
DIRECTOR Chel White
STUDIO Bent Image Lab – bentimagelab.com
MUSIC BY Thom Yorke
Band of Skulls is worth checking out if you haven’t yet heard their music. You should be able to gather that from the two sensational examples above.
This is just a really great video for a really great song. There isn’t much more you can say than that. Once again, stop motion reigns supreme in 2009 and this is probably one of the year’s best examples. The art direction is top notch. Beautiful work.
Full credits (and there’s a lot of them):
Created By: Exploding Motor Car
Producer: Geoff Mclean
Production Company: Vision Film Co
Animation Director: Brett Long
Stop Motion Animator: Mike Weiss
Production Designers: Winston Hacking, Jeff Garcia, Daijaro Hama
Live Action DP: Barry Cheong
Stop-Mo DP: Drew Fortier
Editor: Marc De Pape
Post FX: Jesse Ewles
1st AC: Julia Seidman
Gaffer: Cliff Ramnauth
Makeup: Kenji Sato
Sets+Prop Builders: Martin Macpherson, Jay Graham
This is an oldie but goodie directed by Zac Ella & Rob Flowers for The Broken Hearts single ‘Black Cat’. It’s a good jam and a good video.
I am a little late on this one but that doesn’t mean I shouldn’t share this beautifully art directed video from Fever Ray (the solo project of Karin Dreijer Andersson from The Knife) for the single ‘Triangle Walks’. The video was directed by Mikel Cee Karlsson.
If you haven’t picked up a copy of Major Lazer’s album ‘Guns Don’t Kill People Lazers Do!’, you might want to reconsider after peeping this pretty sweet little video.
Credits:
Directed by Eric Wareheim
Edited and Animation by Zachary Johnson & Jeffery Max fatalfarm.com
Art and Vector Insanity by Kevin O’Neil & Karisa Senavitis willworkforgood.org
Produced by Clark Reinking
Styling by Amanny Ahmad
This really spectacular video was directed by Shynola and you can read an interview with Shynola’s own Chris Harding all about the making of the video at the mighty Motionographer.
Someone passed this along via email to me this morning and although the video isn’t really something crazy effects driven, I did enjoy the tune. You can pick up a copy of the single here from Phantasy Sound.
Full credits:
Directed by James Connolly AKA Lvis 1990
http://www.myspace.com/lvis1990
http://www.jamesconnolly.net
http://www.myspace.com/ritontime
http://www.myspace.com/primary1
http://www.phantasysound.co.uk
http://www.myspace.com/phantasysounds
Trunk Animation emailed this morning to let me know about their recent completion of a music video created for the Tom Fun Orchestra. The video is for the track “Throw Me To The Rats” and was directed by the dynamic new directing duo Alasdair Brotherston and Jock Mooney.
Full credits:
Director – Alasdair Brotherston
Art Director – Jock Mooney
Producer – Shot On Site Media
Compositer – Dylan White
Puppeteers – Jenni Nylander, Natalie Ryde
Wow. This is wild. The colors, motion and art direction are all just wild. Can we officially call 2009 the year of stop motion yet?
Credits:
Matthias Sturm: myspace.com/lucifermusique
Directed by Tobias Stretch: tobystretch.com
Passion Pit’s latest video was brought together by Mixtape Club. You can find full credits and a little detail about the project at Mixtape’s website.
I am really digging the throwback vibe of both this song and the video. Really well art directed and a lot of fun to watch.
Lots of credits and links:
Director: Alan Tanner
Producers: Jett Steiger and Matt Harfield
DP, Editor: Eli Born
Gaffer: Kevin Phillips
Key Grip: Wyatt Garfield
Swing: Jeremy Bowditch
Production Designer: Megan Fenton
Art Directors: Elizabeth Garner, Martha Carey, Ashley Fenton
Costume Designer: Jenny Reyes, Huy Tran, Oscar Covar
Makeup: Tiffany Johnston
jennylewis.com
alantannersvideos.com
teamgproductions.com
vimeo.com/channels/teamg
geronimocollection.com
“This music video was shot for Sour’s ‘Hibi no Neiro’ (Tone of everyday) from their first mini album ‘Water Flavor EP’. The cast were selected from the actual Sour fan base, from many countries around the world. Each person and scene was filmed purely via webcam.”
Credits:
Director: Masashi Kawamura + Hal Kirkland + Magico Nakamura + Masayoshi Nakamura
SOUR’s official site: sour-web.com
Thank you to David for the link.
