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
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
I am a little late on this one, but this has been all around the blogosphere and for good reason, it’s a pretty slick little film project both conceptually and in execution. The end result is really impressive and a hell of a lot of fun to watch. ‘Neurosonics Audiomedical’ was directed by Chris Cairns and you can gather up all of the credits and details, as well as a lot of making of photos at the official website for the project.
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.
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.
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
David O’Reilly just produced this new music video for U2’s new single “I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight”. Huge congratulations to him. What an awesome project to be a part of for one of the world’s biggest bands.
Credits:
Written & Directed by David OReilly
Designed by Jon Klassen
Links:
davidoreilly.com – burstofbeaden.com – u2.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.
MGMT (Make Great Music Together) has released it’s official video for the wildly popular track ‘Kids’. The song has been all over the place, so chances are you have heard it already. That does not stop the video, however from being mildly offensive and questionable. Damn I love this band. I hope their sophomore album is good.
Via the still going strong, Surfstation.
I couldn’t take my eyes off of this unusual video. The interplay between color fields and the usage of contrast is first rate. There’s some real art going on here. There is also some nice usage of typography peppered in for good measure. I am curious if this was shot digitally or on film. Either way it’s great work.
Credits:
Directed by Kate Moross & Jo Apps
Art Director / Kate Moross
Editor / Jo Apps
Produced by Kate Moross & Jo Apps for ISO Films
First Assistant Director / Hans Lo
Director of Photography / David Procter
Camera Assist + Gaffer / Ryan Hopkinson
Tom Turley / Red Tech
Art Department / Jack Featherstone
Art Department Assist / Maddy Worthington
Animation / Rob Jones
Grade / Urban Ström
Stylist / Donna Rooney
Make Up / Gina Blondelle
Really digging this wildly eclectic video for Dan Black produced and directed by Chic & Artistic.
