04.25.10
Comments Off on GravityArt
The synchronized bounce and crash rhythm entitled Gravité from Renaud Hallée gave new meaning to the phrase ‘balls to the wall’.
Via The Denver Egotist.
04.16.10
Comments Off on Clutchy Hopkins – Verbal HeadlockMusic
‘Verbal Headlock’ is the latest track from the new Clutchy Hopkins album “The Story Teller” recently released on Ubiquity Records. The track has already been awarded among the year’s best on Gilles Peterson’s Worldwide show on BBC Radio 1.
The video was directed by Christian Borstlap.
04.14.10
Comments Off on Record Club: INXS – New SensationMusic
“Record Club No. 4 is here…! Joining in this time we had three of my favorite bands— Liars, Annie Clark and Daniel Hart from St. Vincent, Sergio Dias from the legendary Brazilian band Os Mutantes, as well as RC veteran Brian Lebarton, just back from the Charlotte Gainsbourg tour. The record covered this time was 1987 blockbuster ‘Kick’ by INXS. The record was chosen by fellow Aussie, Angus from the Liars. It was recorded in a little over 12 hours on March 3rd, 2010. It was an intense, hilarious, daunting and completely fun undertaking. Thanks to everybody for being there and putting so much into it. Many classic moments, inspired performances and occasional anarchy. We’ll post the songs consecutively in the album’s original sequence. First one up is ‘Guns In The Sky.'”
Amazing music and a great project that you can learn more about by visiting Beck’s personal website.
04.12.10
Comments Off on Brad EltermanPhotography
Photographer Brad Elterman is one of those people you could say has ‘been there and done that’. After picking up his first camera at 16 his first photo of Bob Dylan performing onstage was publish in 1974. That you might say lead to a life of debauchery in the seventies when leaving school at the age of 19 he hit the road traveling with acts like Leif Garret, Boney M, The Eagles and Rod Stewart just to name a few. He covered the rock scene in Hollywood capturing intimate images of some of music’s most iconic stars. He has contributed those images to publications such as US, Creem, Circus, Rolling Stone, People, Hit Parader, Phonograph Record Magazine, Rock Magazine, Rock Scene, New York Post, National Enquirer, The StarJAPAN, Music Life, Rock ShowEUROPE, Muzeik Express, Photo Foto, Pop, Pop Rocky, Bravo, Das Freizeit, Magazun, Popcorn, Poster Magazine, Oh Boy, Fabulous 208, Jackie, Sounds, New Musical Express, Melody Maker. He was also often hired for official publicity photos by major record labels including RCA, Warner Bros, MCA, Mercury, Columbia, RSO and Capitol Records.
04.07.10
Comments Off on Complicated Universal CumMusic
This is the official video for “I can hardly wait” by Complicated Universal Cum soon to be released via Fake Diamond Records (whose website could use a major overhaul).
The video was directed by Ditlev Rosing & Frederik Valentin (I bet it was a tough one to shoot).
“I Cant Hardly Wait is the obvious hit-ballade from Frederik Valentins solo debut, where fuzzed-out psychedelic spacerock is combined with elements of primitive electropunk, noiserock and punkrock attitude.”
Via The Denver Egotist.
04.04.10
Comments Off on Jacob EscobedoGraphic Design
Scroll down down down and down to see the primarily music industry related design and art direction work of Jacob Escobedo including a very nice project for Broken Bells.
03.17.10
Comments Off on HAT – Max & Laura BraunAnimation
“The song HAT by Max and Laura Braun presents an enigmatic story of love, discovery and loss, a sense of home and growing up. Foresaking linearity and coherence, a narrative is conveyed through fleeting glimpses, allowing a subtle landscape of emotion and memory to emerge, its contours defined by thick, soft lines.
This dreamlike style is continued throughout the video made by director Michael Fragstein. Hand painted sequences unfolding in an empty space accompany the song’s lyrics. Replete with ambiguity and symbolism, these images appear, merge and fade. An ongoing chain of events reveals an infinite number of ties between the protagonists, while leaving room for interpretation and a space for the audience to reflect.”
Credits:
Music by: Max und Laura Braun
Directed by: Michael Fragstein at Büro Achter
Rotoscoping by: Stephan Beyer
03.10.10
Comments Off on Record Makers PromoAnimation
This 10th anniversary self promotional animation for Record Makers is straight up bootylicious. It’s an adjective that so rarely applies but in this case it is positively apropos.
03.05.10
Comments Off on Pink Terror HawkingMovies
Mike Barzman shot this experimental video at 1800 frames per second. I cannot claim to know exactly what he was trying to accomplish or say by shooting it, as he did not enlighten me via his email but I must admit that I found it fun to watch.
02.24.10
Comments Off on Kanye West – Coldest WinterMusic
Here is the latest from the man everyone loves to hate Kanye West for the single ‘Coldest Winter’. It’s a slick video which is to be expected, and I am going to let you finish watching it but I just want to say that Beyonce has one of the greatest videos of all time.
Credits:
Artist: Kanye West
Song: Coldest Winter
Director: NABIL
Label: Island/ Def jam
Producer: Kathleen Heffernan
DP: Josh Reis
Editor: DJ Sing
CG post: Baked FX lead artist: Kyle Belko
After Effects: Gustavo & Clara
Production Co: Partizan
02.20.10
Comments Off on The Antlers – BearMusic
Evan Owen Dennis wrote in to let me know about a new music video he directed for the band The Antlers for their single ‘Bear’ off of the album ‘Hospice’. It’s a great video for a great band. The album isn’t new but the video is, possibly because more people have come around to the band this year after the albums reception last year.
Credits:
Director: Evan Owen Dennis
DP: Aaron Phillips
Editor: Eli Mavros
Producer: Robert Smyth
Telecine: Tom Poole @ Company 3
02.17.10
Comments Off on End SceneMotion Graphics
“This video was made by Steffen Bygebjerg in 2009 for the song “End Scene”. The track is taken from Troels Abrahamsen’s album WHT also from 2009.
The animation work was made in Adobe After Effects. Each frame was then printed and the print was subsequently scanned back into the computer. The scanned frames were then assembled back into the original animation, now with a new rugged look, created by the visit in the physical analogue world. No effects added after scanning.”
02.14.10
Comments Off on Fettes Brot – Jein 2010Music
Daniel Warwick directed this video for Fettes Brot which kind of reminds me of something you would have seen in the 80’s for Devo. Minus the amazing vivid color, art direction and super stylized sets of course. The whole video is pretty strange and I am not entire sure what the aim was but it is definitely entertaining.
02.09.10
Comments Off on Madder MortemAnimation
This is from Madder Mortem’s forthcoming release ‘Where Dream & Day Collide’, coming May 10th, 2010. There is some amazing 3D animation going on here not to mention some artfully crafted matte painting.
Directed by Christian Ruud & Kim Holm
Produced by Toxic™
Concept Art & Matte Painting: Christian Ruud & Kim Holm
Animators: Frode Ekeberg,
Morten Homleid,
Kim Holm, Christian Lundvall,
Christian Ruud
3D/Modeling/Texuring/Rendering:
Frode Ekeberg, Morten Homleid, Christian Lundvall, Christian Ruud, Lars Hauge Hoel
Compositing: Frode Ekeberg,
Morten Homleid,
Kim Holm,
Christian Ruud
Editing, Online & Grading: Knut A. Helgeland
Offline Editor:
Helge Tjelta
Music: Madder Mortem
Label: Peaceville Records
toxic.no
02.07.10
Comments Off on Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic ZerosMusic
This is the video that was released several months back for the single ‘Desert Song’ from Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros. The video is part of a 12 part rock opera video series released by the band entitled ‘SALVO!’ The videos are directed by Benjamin Kutsko and Cory Marrero. These aren’t new but I only recently was turned onto the band and I seriously just can’t stop listening to them. They are fantastic and worth looking into if you haven’t yet.
ARTIST: Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
SONG: Desert Song
ALBUM: Up From Below
LABEL: Community Music
DIRECTED BY: Benjamin Kutsko and Cory Marrero
PRODUCED BY: Alex Ebert
DP: David Myrick
EDITED BY: Brandon Driscoll-Luttringer and Alex Ebert
VFX: Benjamin Kutsko and Casey Allen
WARDROBE BY: Cassandra Kellogg and Amanny Ahmad
MAKEUP: Sarai Fiszel
To view part II click here.
01.15.10
Comments Off on Washed Out – BelongMusic
This is the music video for “Belong”, off High Times (Mirror Universe; 2009). It was directed by Blake Salzman.
01.05.10
Comments Off on Warpaint – StarsMusic
Here is the official music video for the single “Stars” by Warpaint, taken from the ‘Exquisite Corpse EP’ (released on Manimal Vinyl). The video was filmed in the ashes of the Angeles National Forest.
Credits:
Shot by Adam Harding, edited and directed by Burke Roberts and Adam Harding
01.04.10
Comments Off on Hugo & Marie for PhishIllustration
I stumbled upon Hugo & Marie’s Behance-folio this morning and was treated to some really exceptional posters recently completed for the latest album release of superpower-hippy-jam-band Phish. There are several posters completed by different artists and illustrators under the Hugo & Marie umbrella, all of which are expertly accomplished.
After you finish checking out the posters you can also head over to the Hugo & Marie website to take a look at the portfolio of their newly added illustrator Jules Julien.
