10.08.09

Royksopp – This Must Be It

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This is the latest video for Röyksopp’s ‘This Must Be It’ courtesy of Filip and Andreas Nilsson. My only question is: Whatever happened to that skinny little dude who starts crawling up the hillside? Where did he end up?

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10.07.09

Uffie – Pop the Glock

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I worked on a teeny tiny little project with Laundry a long way back. It’s great to see them doing some haute new work.

Credits:
UFFIE “Pop the Glock”
Ed Banger Records
directed by: Nathalie Canguilhem
Design and animation: Laundry!

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10.06.09

Major Lazer – Keep It Goin Louder

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This is the latest video for Major Lazer’s new single ‘Keep It Goin’ Louder’.

Here is a little extra background I received about the making of the video:
“Jason Miller directed the live action out in the states and sent across all the raw footage, Ferry, who has done all the illustration so far for Major Lazer got in touch, and together we completed the animation at Trunk. The look of the video was inspired by those washed out horror movies you used to sit and watch time and time again on VHS, so the footage and animation were composited with this in mind, and then de-saturated in the grade.”

Credits:
Directed by Ferry Gouw
Live Action Director- Jason Miller
Producer- Richard Barnett
Technical Director- Layla Atkinson
Production- Trunk Animation
Animation- Ferry Gouw, Pedro Lino, Aaron Lampert, Steve Smith, Sarah Wickens

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10.01.09

Little Criminals

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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

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09.30.09

Blue Roses – Doubtful Comforts

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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

myspace.com/musicofblueroses
connectedlimited.com

aniceideaeveryday.com

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09.22.09

Portugal. The Man – Do You

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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.

decoy.tv
michaelragen.com
portugaltheman.net

Order The Satanic Satanist record here
tinyurl.com/mkjww2

Youtube HD located here
tinyurl.com/np6cpk

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Air – Sing Sang Sung

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This is the latest for Air’s upcoming Love 2, that will be released october 5. Can’t get enough of the retro animation vibe.

Credits:
Directed by : Mrzyk & Moriceau @ El Nino
Producer : Jules Dieng
Animation & exe : Mathematic Studio

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08.30.09

Band of Skulls

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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.

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08.25.09

Ohbijou – New Years

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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

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08.24.09

The Broken Hearts – Black Cat

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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.

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08.20.09

Fever Ray – Triangle Walks

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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.

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08.16.09

Major Lazer – Pon De Floor

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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

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08.11.09

Riton & Primary 1 – Whos There?

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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

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08.03.09

Throw Me To The Rats

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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

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07.28.09

Matthias Sturm – Blood And Thunder

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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

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07.22.09

Passion Pit – Eyes as Candles

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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.

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07.10.09

Jenny Lewis – See Fernando

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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

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07.08.09

Sour – Hibi no Neiro

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“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.

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