Posts Tagged ‘music video’

Arcade Fire & Chris Milk Take You to “The Wilderness Downtown”

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

Always looking to push creative boundaries, my main man Milk (Chris that is) directs a truly unique and groundbreaking music video for Arcade Fire’s single “We Used to Wait” from their latest album The Suburbs, and turns it into the interactive interpretation titled “The Wilderness Downtown”. Part Google web browser Chrome Experiment part personalized nostalgia trip, the immersive, multi-window, next level clip literally takes you home before the music even starts as you’re prompted to “enter the address of the home were you grew up” (which eventually appears on screen at the appropriate part of the track with the help of Google Maps technology).

Driven by the haunting melodies of Arcade Fire, you follow the galloping footsteps of a hooded runner who’s seemingly travelling through your old neighborhood as he passes familiar spots popping up in small windows on your screen. Sweeping street level and aerial views of your old home conjure childhood memories as Milk perfectly choreographs the sentimental imagery which culminates in an outgrowth of birds, trees and wilderness.

Top it all off with another window for writing “a postcard of advice to the younger you that lived there then” and you have yourself a personalized and poignant journey (and maybe even a tear or two) that you’ve yet to experience in a music video.

Click here or the image below to visit “The Wilderness Downtown” (best viewed in Google Chrome or in Apple’s Safari 5)

Read details and more from Google’s blog here.

From Chrome Experiments:

Choreographed windows, interactive flocking, custom rendered maps, real-time compositing, procedural drawing, 3D canvas rendering… this Chrome Experiment has them all. “The Wilderness Downtown” is an interactive interpretation of Arcade Fire’s song “We Used To Wait” and was built entirely with the latest open web technologies, including HTML5 video, audio, and canvas.”

More from Chris Milk:

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Moustachioed Baby Sings “I Was Drunk”

Friday, August 27th, 2010

I just couldn’t resist the over-riding urge to post this through the weekend: moustached Euro baby singing the disco club smash hit record “I Was Drunk” by Riva Starr featuring Noze. And with that, I bid you an awesome weekend!

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Cee-Lo Says “F**K YOU”

Tuesday, August 24th, 2010

From his early hip hop history with the southern fried Goodie Mobb to his latest colab with super producer Danger Mouse to form the mighty Gnarls Barkley to his unconventional solo career and all the guest spots he’s had in-between (Outkast, Common), the uniquely funky, soul-infused singer/MC Cee-Lo Green has already had an incredible rap career sonstantly pushing musical boundaries.

His first single off of the forthcoming The Ladykiller album (due out Oct. 8th) keeps pushing those creative boundaries, and then some, with the simple, colorful and extremely catchy “F**K YOU”.

Also…it seems as though some people are already having fun with Cee-Lo’s latest hit as evidenced by the Dallas Observer’s “F**K YOU” remix of the Shawshank Redemption. See the rest of the movie mashups here.

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Kanye’s “Power” Powered by Marco Brambilla

Monday, August 9th, 2010

Inspired by Marco Brambilla’s video masterpiece Civilization (mentioned last year here and can be seen at the NYC Standard), hip hop’s resident artiste Kanye West decided to commission the genius video artist to power up his latest music video for “Power“. Oh excuse me, my bad, according to Kanye, “It’s not a video…it’s a painting!!!”

“Power” Single available now on iTunes.

Also…watch Brambilla’s process behind the scenes below and read details from the New York Times Vulture blog here.

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Ol’ Dirty Bastard, Karen O & Fatlip Get “Strange Enough” for N.A.S.A.

Wednesday, July 21st, 2010

Our favorite (and fellow) space cadets Squeak E. Clean and DJ Zegon of the world famous N.A.S.A. crew, strike again with yet another mouth watering music video with “Strange Enough” from their debut album The Spirit of Apollo.

“Strange Enough” features the stylings of three musical geniuses with Wu Tang’s late Ol’ Dirty Bastard, Karen O (Yeah Yeah Yeahs) and Fatlip (The Pharcyde) as well as the death defying art of Stephan Doitschinoff brought to life by Lorna T and Studio Giblets and once again guided to completion by creative director Syd Garon and producer by Susan Applegate.

Click here for more from N.A.S.A. ringleader Sam Speigel (Squeak E. Clean) from Boingboing.net’s exclusive coverage.

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Shake Your Ass with The Shakers

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

Los Angeles’ The Shakers, featuring our friend and sultry voice of Motion Theory-Jodie Schell, hit the band trifecta this month with a brand spanking new debut EP (now available on iTunes!), ongoing shows in and out of town and to top it off a zombie-infested smackdown in their music video for “Villain” directed by Jason Dodson.

Also…see more of The Shakers at their final night of their rock residency tonight at the Kibitz Room on Fairfax and at their new monthly residency at Gallagher’s Pub in Huntington Beach beginning this Friday, July 2nd.

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Happy Mother’s Day! Love, Drunk Girls

Friday, May 7th, 2010

To commemorate this Sunday’s special day for Mothers everywhere, here’s LCD Soundsystem’s party panda infested music video for “Drunk Girls” directed by Spike Jonze. Happy Mother’s Day moms!

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TUESDAY (April 27): Aqua Teen Hunger Force Live at the El Rey

Monday, April 26th, 2010

The animated power trio of Adult Swim’s Aqua Teen Hunger Force, or at least (most of) the voices behind the foul-mouthed fast food crew (Dave Willis and Dana Snyder), make a stop in Los Angeles for the Aqua Teen Hunger Force Live show at the El Rey Theater.

More from ATHF Live:

“Master Shake! Meatwad! Carl! All of your favorite stars from

Aqua Teen Hunger Force!

Except for Frylock! He wanted too much money! And no Err, either! He moved recently!

But still! 2/3 of Aqua Teen Hunger Force! Dave Willis and Dana Snyder!

Live in your college auditorium and/or place of worship!

Dave and Dana live!

Performing music! Reading from scripts!

Amazing unseen videos that may never be shown again! But probably will!

Clips from upcoming episodes of ATHF and Squidbillies

Giving out free  junk! Plus the show us your Meatwad! competition

Aqua Teen Hunger Force Live
Tuesday, April 27th, 8pm
El Rey Theater
5515 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA  90036
Buy tix here!

Also…bonus refresher course on the Aqua Teen Hunger Force in the form of classic music video from the legendary Danger Doom (MF Doom and Danger Mouse).

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Bad Andy Soria and Boba Fett Go Gangster with King Fantastic

Monday, April 26th, 2010

Fresh off of art directing his buddy Z-Trip’s Coachella set, our favorite multi-talented Filipino madman Andy Soria came back home to LA to direct and perform in the King Fantastic’s inaugural music video, “Hollyrock Jam Session”. You know, just another normal creative day for the bad Andy.

Also…watch for a special appearance from Boba Filipino on the keys!

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Complicated Universal Cum is For Everyone

Friday, April 9th, 2010

Having cut my editorial teeth editing music videos, it makes sense that I post a lot of them. But with the music industry dying a little bit more each day, it would seem as though music videos would start to die out as well. This has not been the case. With recent masterpieces by OK Go (”This Too Shall Pass”) and everything by our pals at N.A.S.A. among many other creative clips, it seems as though the music video is alive and well.

And with all due respect to the aforementioned works of music video ingenuity, I think we have a new #1 chart topper that won’t be seen on any American music video channel (do they even still exist?). I present you with the one shot wonder “I Can Hardly Wait” by Complicated Universal Cum. Please proceed to the front of the enjoyment line.

From Fake Diamond Records:

“Official Video for “I can hardly wait” by Complicated Universal Cum released on Fake Diamond Records.

Video by Ditlev Rosing & Frederik Valentin.
Videoconcept by Kasper Bjørke
Kissing Girls: Sarah & Marlene

I Can Hardly Wait is the obvious hit-ballad from Frederik Valentins solo debut, where fuzzed-out psychedelic spacerock is combined with elements of primitive electropunk, noiserock and punkrock attitude

Like?
Listen to the album and support the artist by buying the full album here:
itunes.apple.com/dk/album/complicated-universal-cum/id362024090″

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