The Reasons Basketball is the Way It Is
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3/29/2012
Prometheus - Official Full Trailer
In the distant future, two superpowers control Earth and fight each other for all the solar system's natural resources. When one side dispatches a team to a distant planet to terraform it for human colonization, the team discovers an indigenous race of bio-mechanoid killers.
Ridley Scott, director of 'Alien' and 'Blade Runner,' returns to the genre he helped define. With PROMETHEUS, he creates a groundbreaking mythology, in which a team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a thrilling journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race.
Genre: Science Fiction
Director: Ridley Scott
Cast: Charlize Theron, Michael Fassbender, Noomi Rapace
Release Date: June 8, 2012
Dum Dum Girls – “Coming Down”
The single biggest departure on Only In Dreams, the Dum Dum Girls’ great 2011 sophomore album, was the slo-mo Mazzy Star-esque ballad “Coming Down.” That song’s brand-new video is a single worshipful black-and-white shot of bandleader Dee Dee, who we see staring down the camera while people come along and cut her clothes off with scissors in an homage to Yoko Ono’s Cut Piece. Malia James directs.
SBTRKT – “Hold On”
A haunting, painful scene replays for the protagonist in SBTRKT’s “Hold On” video, an eerie clip that holds up to the tracks own icy pleas and textures. Sam Pilling directs. Watch it below.
Lee Ranaldo – “Angles”
Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo released his solo album Between The Times And The Tides last week, and we’ve already posted his video for “Off The Wall.” Ranaldo’s wife Leah Singer directed his new video for “Angles,” in which Ranaldo swings a guitar around a New York alleyway. Watch it below.
Heart-Sick Groans - "If The Canary Stops Singing"
A heart lost to the mine, a 18th century indie pop folk electro hymn straight out of the legends of mining Medelpad.
Swedish indie-pop/folk/electro phenomena Heart-Sick Groans' mining their vault of song treasure again.
Beautiful atmospheric animation! ... and some gore
The Elderberries - Here Till Dawn
The Elderberries - Here Till Dawn
Prod : Sophiane Prod
Réalisation : Anaïs Production
Lady Gaga - Marry The Night (Official Video)
Music video by Lady Gaga performing Marry The Night (Official Video).
Google Maps 8-bit for NES
Google Maps is now available for 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment Systems (NES). Availability in Google Store is TBD but you can try it on your browser by going to http://maps.google.com and clicking "Quest" in the upper right hand corner of the map. Also...
Happy April Fools 2012!
Slow Motion Ballet
This one is wonderful: the grace and beauty of ballet, captured in slow mo. Take a look and appreciate the graceful movements of Marina Kanno and Giacomo Bevilaqua from Staatsballett Berlin at 1,000 frames per second.
Directed by Simon Iannelli & Johannes Berger
Camera by Dr. Frank Gabler & Hendrik Nix, slomotec
Coordination Staatsballett Berlin Doreen Windolf & Alexandra van Veldhoven
Music Radiohead - Everything In Its Right Place (Gigamesh DiscoTech Remix)
3/28/2012
Kottarashky & the Rain Dogs - “Demoni”
Theodore Ushev used a gramophone and fifty vinyl records painted with oil, acrylics, and gel paint markers to create this music video for Kottarashky & the Rain Dogs’ Demoni. He joins the ranks of contemporaries like Eric Dyer and David Wilson, experimenting with pre-cinema optical devices. The video features bright visuals reminiscent of Joan Miró that playfully dance and loop to the music.
Bill Callahan - Heaven Help the Child
Indie survivor Bill Callahan recently covered “Heaven Help The Child,” a history-minded 1973 song from country-music outsider Mickey Newbury. And now Callahan’s version has a video, a black-and-white single-shot thing that transposes Callahan’s face with an image of a tree. The video itself is minimal, but more than anything, it’s an excuse to hear Callahan’s cover, which is triumphant.
Rye Rye - Boom, Boom
Geremy Jasper & Georgie Greville of LEGS imagine Rye Rye in a surrealist video game world for her new single "Boom, Boom". Multiple Rye Ryes dance, jump, fly, flip, sing and rhyme through collaged psychedelic game levels full of pyramids, flying carpets, laser shooting dolphins, hunks, UFOs, cubed clouds and dragons. In a visual style that pushes 90's Sega graphics 'Through the Looking Glass' "Boom Boom" pushes the hip hop video to mind warping dimensions.
Director: Geremy Jasper and Georgie Greville
3/27/2012
Julia Holter - Moni Mon Amie
The video for "Moni Mon Amie" interprets the song as a lyrical appeal to the unattainable other, and a conversation that's being had with oneself. The longing transforms the perception of the everyday, turning each moment into a poetic landscape in which the miniature and the gigantic become interchangeable. Julia plays the subject and the object of desire in this video. Yelena Zhelezov, March 2012
Directed by Yelena Zhelezov.
Directed by Yelena Zhelezov.
New Year's End: A BioShock Short Film
Fans of the Bioshock video game series (like me!) are getting mighty excited about the upcoming release of Bioshock: Infinite later this year, so it’s no wonder we watch everything related to Bioshock that comes out on the interwebs in order to get our Rapture fix.
To tide us over until the new game is released, here’s an entertaining Bioshock themed short film, which deals with the events that took place in Rapture before the first game on that fateful New Years Eve, 1958.
–via Geekologie
Tenacious D - To Be The Best
Music video by Tenacious D performing To Be The Best.
Novelty-metal all-stars Tenacious D have been out of the game, as a duo anyway, since their 2006 movie The Pick Of Destiny failed brutally. They’re back with a new album now, and credit them for taking on that movie’s miserable performance in this, the first video from new LP Rize Of The Fenix. It’s probably best to think of “To Be The Best” as a drawn-out sketch rather than a music video. There’s precious little new music in it, but that’s part of the point. Also, cameos. Lots of cameos. Josh Groban’s cameo game is pretty magnificent.
3/26/2012
Com Truise - Terminal
Com Truise is on some Dwarf Fortress shit with his new video for Galactic Melt cut terminal, favoring that throwback sci-fi look he likes.
La Sera - Real Boy / Drive On
Vivian Girls bassist Katy Goodman records solo stuff as La Sera, and she’s about to release her new album Sees The Light. We’ve already posted her fun “Please Be My Third Eye” video, and now she’s got another clip for two of the album’s songs, a sort of video-within-the-video thing. In “Real Boy,” she’s a trapeze artist dreaming about her circus’s strongman. And in the noir-ified “Drive On,” she’s an unsuspecting stalkee. Both of them have more S&M undercurrents than you might expect, but the whole thing is decidedly safe for work. Travis Peterson directs; watch the video for both tracks below.
Belle And Sebastian - Crash
Taken from the album "Late Night Tales - Belle and Sebastian - Volume 2" an exclusive cover version of the 1988 hit song by The Primitives "Crash". The animated video has been made exclusively for Late Night Tales by Stephen Tolfrey.
The 20 Best K-Pop Videos
Ever since an October 2011 New York Times account of an absolutley ridiculous-sounding sold-out K-pop showcase at Madison Square Garden, I’ve been spending altogether too much time chasing the feeling that I got watching my first K-pop video. SHINee’s “RingDingDong.” I’ve been able to get that feeling pretty often. South Korea, see, has figured out pop music pretty much perfectly over the last couple of years. Throughout Asia, and in pockets of the West as well, the music coming out of a few different management companies in Seoul has become absurdly popular, and it’s done it by taking the musical and visual vocabularies of late-’90s American teenpop and amping them up into Blade Runner pleasure-bombs, looking and sounding like an optimist’s idea of the future. The clothes and hairstyles and camera-angles and cheesed-out CGI effects are all cranked up way past 10, and so are the songs’ hooks. If you have any love in your heart for willfully weightless, blissed-out, shame-free pop music, there is a whole lot to love in the 20 videos below.
K-pop is a genre in its relative infancy, really only coming into its own in the last three years and pushing itself to giddier heights every couple of months or so. Though many of the stars do help write their own music, the K-pop assembly line is a very serious thing, one that puts even Nashville’s pop-country industry to shame. These management companies find talented kids, spend years training them, and then debut them in boy- and girl-bands that have all been assembled in the least organic way possible. There’s very little pretense at artistic expression here; instead, these groups are hook-delivery systems polished to a blinding sheen. But that all-surface craftsmanship, in its way, can be just as moving as anything else; it’s humbling to watch people so insanely good at what they do.
I should point out, at the outset, that I am no kind of K-pop historian, and almost everything I learned about the genre comes from clicking the YouTube links that appear after a video ends. That means I’m probably missing a ton of stuff, and actual K-pop aficionados will probably get annoyed with me for ranking some things higher than others and for leaving out classics. I’m a total neophyte, and if I’m leaving out anything important, then by all means set me straight in the comments section. Anyway, this list is less about ranking and more about the sheer abundance of awesomeness that K-pop is giving us right now.
20. SHINee – “Lucifer”
A pretty good indication of what you’ll find futher down this list: Flashy choreography, haircuts that seem like they leaped straight from a William Gibson novel, hooks so efficient and powerful that they almost hurt your brain. I don’t think that anyone on earth knows what “love-a-holic, lovertronic” means, and none of us will probably find out either.
19. Girls’ Generation – “Oh!”
A massive hit, and a song that a lot of fans consider to be the defining high-water mark of the entire genre. I’m not as nuts about it, but it is fun in a frothy, sunny way. The video is practically a K-pop take on Saved By The Bell; I can’t seriously imagine what a football helmet even means to Korean culture.
18. Kim Wan-Sun – “Be Quiet”
Wan-Sun has been a star in South Korea since the mid-’80s, and this is the comeback effort that introduced her to the current K-pop wave. Naturally, it features dancers with speakers for heads, a bleach-haired rapper who stomps on a computer keyboard, and a backing track that veers awfully close to early-’90s rave. Fun!
17. TVXQ – “Keep Your Head Down”
In this one, the members of this boy band shoot fireballs from their fingertips, lip-sync in rooms riddled with bulletholes, and swing bits of rubber tubing around like nunchaku. Also, one of them wears a cape and acts like that’s not even a big deal, and there are at least three points where I was convinced that a couple of the boys were about to start making out with each other.
16. f(x) – “Nu ABO”
Everyone’s favorite member of this girl group is Amber Liu, a Taiwanese-American rapper from L.A. who’s probably the single butchiest person, male or female, in the entire K-poposphere. The fact that she can become a teen idol in Korea, a place not exactly known for fluid sexuality, is some kind of testament to K-pop’s power, or to her own charisma, or something. And even though “Hot Summer” has a pink tank in it, the infernally catchy “Nu ABO” probably has their best video.
15. B.A.P. – “Warrior”
DMX-influenced K-pop, it turns out, is a thing that exists. B.A.P. is a new boy band whose name stands for Best Absolute Perfection, which is so awesome but which doesn’t have anything to do with their hardcore persona. And I think it’s pretty great that all the members of K-pop’s most thugged-out boy-band have bleach-blond hair, like they were the evil gang from Meteor Man. Also, the members keep pretending to shoot each other in the head Reservoir Dogs-style, and there’s a guy in a Deadmau5-looking light-up rabbit head who smashes car windows with a sledgehammer.
14. Trouble Maker – “Trouble Maker”
Male/female duets are pretty rare in K-pop, for whatever reason. This is a total event-song, a collaboration between two big stars in Hyunseung of the boy band Beast and Hyuna, a member of the girl group 4Minute and the singer of the awesome “Bubble Pop!,” which you’ll find further down. Naturally, it’s a sexed-up James Bondian fantasy that proceeds according to a logic that I’m pretty sure nobody understands.
13. BigBang – “Love Song
The track itself is a better Coldplay song than anything Coldplay themselves have done since A Rush Of Blood To The Head. The video, meanwhile, is one long Children Of Men/Touch Of Evil-style tracking shot (with sly edits, sure) that takes place entirely a post-apocalypic wasteland full of flaming debris and exploding car husks that fall from the sky for no reason. There’s nothing about this thing that I don’t love.
12. T-Ara – “Roly Poly”
The song’s Euro-club bounce is so relentlessly catchy and direct that it gives me Abba vibes, but for some reason it comes couched in this 12-minute period piece mini-movie in which some lady discovers her old photo album and then flashes back to the days when she and her friends would execute big nightclub dance routines to this song. I have no idea everyone’s saying during the storyline bits. But the part where that stops and the song starts is absolutely glorious, and the dance bit, with a whole ton of moves stolen from John Travolta’s Saturday Night Fever throwdowns, is adorable. (It starts around 4:25 if you want to jump right there.) For some reason, T-Ara love making these long-ass videos; the mini-crime movie that they made for “Cry Cry” is even more ridiculous.
11. miss A – “Bad Girl, Good Girl”
Sometimes, the language barrier is no barrier at all. This video, where the high school’s black-clad tough chicks take over the ballet-practice room and stage their own elaborately choreographed routine, is one of those times. Also: Good lord this song is catchy.
10. SHINee – “RingDingDong”
This was the first K-pop video I ever watched, and it turned out to be a pretty perfect introduction. Those haircuts! Those nonsensical English baby-talk hooks! The part where they all inexplicably sprout angels’ wings at the end! What really grabbed me, though, was the beat: A tense and rubbery electro-house thing that managed to be utterly accessible and totally punishing at the same time. Nobody in Europe or America is using those Euro-club tropes better than the producers in Seoul are doing right now.
9. Girls’ Generation – “The Boys”
“Oh” may be this group’s genre-defining classic text, but I prefer the robotic turbo-sass of “The Boys” to that song’s over-the-top cuteness. This one reminds me of Writing’s On The Wall-era Destiny’s Child, if they had nine members instead of four, and the video seems to take place in some supremely girly version of Superman’s Fortress of Solitude. It sounds like pure urgency. It’s also the first modern-era K-pop song to get any kind of serious American push, with its English-language version getting an Interscope release and everything.
8. Hyuna – “Bubble Pop!”
This seems to be the American indie-dork massive’s favorite K-pop song, and, I mean, I can’t disagree. It’s practically a fucking Junior Senior song, except with actual good singing, and that chorus sounds like a Fluxpop manifesto brought to glorious life. The video is just an awesomely sunny and flirty good time, with those Roy Lichtenstein comic-book title-cards occasionally turning it into a Monkees clip and that inexplicable dubstep breakdown at the end coming out of absolutley nowhere. The entire comments section on this YouTube video, at least the comments in English, seem to be one vast argument over whether Hyuna is a slut or not.
7. GD & T.O.P. – “Knock Out”
Probably the first non-English rap song I’ve ever managed to enjoy. (Second if you consider “Gasolina” a rap song.) G-Dragon and T.O.P. are the two rapping member of BigBang, and their all-rap side project is reliably just awesome. G-Dragon’s also one of the musical masterminds behind his own group, exceedingly rare in K-pop, and if I’m to believe Wikipedia, he started rapping after the first time he heard Wu-Tang. But he sounds nothing whatsoever like Wu-Tang! This song was apparently banned in South Korea because “Knock Out” is Korean slang for being drunk, which is awesome. And the video itself takes place in some Bugs Bunnified alternate universe that reminds me, more than anything else, of a prime-era Missy Elliott video. The part where they dance under the tank turret is the best. Also, this one is probably the most immediately Stereogum-relevant song on the whole list. Diplo produced it, swiping a big chunk from Cajmere’s Chicago house classic “Coffee Pot (It’s Time For The Percolator)” in the process.
6. 2NE1 – “Ugly”
Rest assured: You will see 2NE1 on this list again. They are awesome, and they’d probably take up a third of this list if I wasn’t limiting things to two songs per artist. But this one gets special consideration because it’s their emo-ballad moment, their obvious take on TLC’s “Unpretty,” and they still dress like refugees from a Hot Topic explosion. Also, if any American emo song in the past five years or so has brought this kind of dizzily positive energy, I haven’t heard it.
5. Super Junior – “Mr. Simple”
There so many people in Super Junior! 13 members! That’s like two and a half American boy bands! Can you imagine the sheer volume of hair product at work here? My favorite member, naturally, is the kinda-fat late-20s guy with the dyed-red pageboy haircut who looks perfectly awkward every time he’s on camera. A friend pointed out that he imagined someone at SM Entertainment looking at an old picture of Joey Fatone, shrugging, and pulling the trigger. This video is almost lo-fi by K-pop standards, built entirely from its choreography. But that choreography is great, and so is the song. Between this, “Sorry Sorry,” and “Bonamana,” Super Junior are the kings of direct, unshakable earworms; good luck getting any of those songs out of your head all day.
4. GD & T.O.P. – “High High”
It took real restraint to keep myself from populating the top five entirely with stuff from the BigBang/2NE1 braintrust, and I just couldn’t help myself here. This one doesn’t have the cartoonish avant-garde force of the “Knock Out” video, but it does poppy American club-rap better than any American has done it in many years. I love the way T.O.P. manages to look like Don Draper even with this goofy spaceman clothes, I love the way way G-Dragon says “like ninja,” and I love that dance they do with their hands on the “high high high high” part. More than anyone, I love how these two guys appear to be having more fun than anyone else on the global pop-music landscape. Also, I hope Slick Rick is making so much money from that sample.
3. Brown Eyed Girls – “Abracadabra”
K-pop videos do future-shock extremely well and cute probably even better, but they don’t often go for sleazy. From what I’ve read, South Korea has pretty stringent rules about anything the tiniest bit explicit, so videos like this one are rare things. But this giddy dominatrix cheesecake confection shows the sort of thing that might happen if those restrictions got lifted. And it’s all incredibly well-done: A merciless electro pulse set to a story that, as far as I can tell, concerns a gigolo figure who gets tortured via shock-treatment. And the hips-rocking dance that the group does on the song’s first verse is pure steely-eyed badassery.
2. BigBang – “Fantastic Baby”
This one is only a few weeks old, so it seems faintly ridiculous to be putting it so high on a best-of-all-time list. But in K-pop, the groups that last do it by pushing their shit to new extremes every time they’ve got a new single out. And right now, BigBang, a dominant commercial force throughout Asia, are Lady Gaga circa-”Telephone.” I mean, look at this thing. It’s a post-apocalyptic Daft Punk adolescent Tumblr fantasy, and nothing about it makes the tiniest bit of sense, the haircuts especially. I can’t tell you how happy I am that it exists. Amrit will tell you: I kept myself awake enough to write all my SXSW coverage stuff by watching this video every 15 minutes.
1. 2NE1 – “I Am The Best”
Images that fill me with an immediate and visceral sense of joy: WWE title belts, spiked gauntlets, futuristic sports cars with gullwing doors, bustiers with nails sticking out of them, CGI trains, CGI pyramids, leather jackets with Misfits backpatches, Westminster-ready poodles, jewelry that spins, cartoonish machine guns, chainmail, designer straightjackets, spinning chairs that quote Scarface, haircuts that look like Viking helmets. The song is ridiculously catchy and propulsive, and everything about the video — the editing, the choreography, the sheer volume of what-the-fuck imagery — works to support it. In the past few months, I’ve watched this video at least 100 times, and I’ve convinced myself that it’s the greatest music video ever made. I refuse to budge on this. I mean, “Thriller” was great and all, but did it have a crew of ’80s-movie punks smashing walls of platinum plaques with baseball bats for no reason? No. No, it did not.
Keaton Henson - Small Hands
There are many lovely woodland creatures in Joseph Mann’s bittersweet music video for Keaton Henson’s Small Hands. At first you think they’re stop-motion, but they turn out to be puppets by Jonny Sabbagh.
Director: Joseph Mann
Executive Producer: Bart Yates
Produced by: Joseph Mann, Tamsin Glasson, James Bretton
Written by: Joseph Mann
Director of Photography: Matthew Day
Cypress x Rusko - "Roll It, Light It"
Jonathan “Jodeb” Desbiens directs a glitchy stream of visuals for Cypress x Rusko’s “Roll It, Light It.” Not for everyone, but there are some beautiful moments.
3/21/2012
Tanlines - All Of Me
Directed by Julian Barratt of The Mighty Boosh.
The minds behind Adult Swim have given us a new music video for “All Of Me,” the effervescent synthpop jam from Tanlines. In the clip, a room full of blank-faced senior citizens watches a VHS tape of the Brooklyn duo performing the song, then gets up to dance mechanically. The Mighty Boosh’s Julian Barratt stars and directs, and it’s all very silly in a straight-faced sort of way.
Madonna – “Girl Gone Wild” Video
Madonna "Girl Gone Wild" dir. Mert & Marcus
Madonna’s video for the M.I.A./Nicki Minaj collab “Give Me All Your Luvin’” was a bit of a mess, but her follow up, the black-and-white clip for new single “Girl Gone Wild,” is a relatively restrained affair. Sure, Madonna spends a lot of screen time humping a wall and making out with multiple shirtless muscular dudes, but considering that she’s Madonna, it’s practically a traditionalist move.
Ceremony – “Adult”
“Adult” is a fiery standout from Zoo, the excellent new album from Cali punks Ceremony. The track’s brand new video gets straight magic-realist Mad Men with it, telling the story of a stereotypical postwar suburban housewife who disappears underneath her house when nobody’s looking. BLV BLK BRD directs.
Odd Future - "Oldie"
At a recent Terry Richardson photo shoot — because of course they were at a Terry Richardson photo shoot — all the members of Odd Future, Earl Sweatshirt included, mobbed up to record a seemingly spur-of-the-moment music video for “Oldie,” the epic 10-minute posse cut that closes out their new album The O.F. Tape Vol. 2. The video is a lot of fun to watch, and it makes being a member of Odd Future look like even more fun. Best thing: Earl! Second-best thing: Frank Ocean can rap! Third-best thing: Jasper Dolphin: “I don’t know my verse!” Fourth-best thing: Left Brain’s Thor hammer. Lance Bangs directs, which makes me wonder how Corin Tucker feels about him hanging out with all these Odd Future kids.
Super Best Friends Forever Are Super Cute
These animated cuties are part of the DC Nation animation block on Cartoon Network, and by the look of them they should be hanging out with the Powerpuff Girls, busting heads and batting their lashes. The DC Nation block airs Saturday mornings on Cartoon Network, check it out and get your weekly animated superfolks fix.
–via ComicsAlliance
The Pendulum
This beautiful, bittersweet love story is the most touching thing you’ll see all day. It uses no words. But it doesn’t need them.
Love, like everything else in life, can be messy. The pendulum in the clock keeps swinging anyway. You can’t stop it.
-via Kotaku
3/20/2012
LICENCIADO CANTINAS the movie
"Licensed Canteens The Movie" is a short film director Alexis Morante, a musical based on the Bunbury album, featuring the singer himself.
BUNBURY - Ánimas, que no amanezca / Ódiame / Llévame
BUNBURY - Ódiame (videoclip) Dir.Alexis Morante.
BUNBURY - Llévame (videoclip) Dir.Alexis Morante.
3/19/2012
Lana Del Rey – “Blue Jeans” Video
That eminently GIF-able tattooed dude (his name is Bradley Soileau, FWIW) is back for Lana’s new clip for “Blue Jeans,” which already has a Lana-made found footage video, but why have one video when you can have two videos? This one is shot in hazy black-and-white and also stars a pool. Yoann Lemoine directs.
Orbital – “New France” (Feat. Zola Jesus) Video
The video for “New France,” Orbital’s recent collaboration with Zola Jesus, doesn’t feature the British rave pioneers or the wailing postpunk queen. Instead, it tells the story of a stuffed lion who comes alive at night, escapes its kid, and attempts to party with a couple of friends before pining for its old life. The fact that this Toy Story story turns out to be pretty affecting is a clear tribute to the masters at work behind this lion puppet. Ian Bucknole directs.
Miike Snow – “The Wave”
Last month, we posted Swedish popsters Miike Snow’s “Paddling Out” video, in which aliens kidnap earthlings and attempt to transform them into perfect beings. Today, we get the sequel in the form of the band’s video for “The Wave,” in which all those experimented-upon earthlings return and invade. It’s all slapsticky absurdism, but then there’s also a playground full of dead kids. I don’t think it’s supposed to be depressing, but it totally is.
Hot Chip – “Flutes”
In the video for Hot Chip’s “Flutes,” the leadoff track from their forthcoming album In Our Heads, a handheld camera walks into the band’s studio and then spins around a whole lot of times. We also get brief still glimpses of the group at work. If you’re, let’s say, a bit hungover, it’s probably best to keep the video playing in another tab just so that you can hear the song, a piece of house-inflected swoon-pop gorgeousness that lasts for seven minutes and change.
Elsie - Time To Go (Sex Pest) (NSFW)
A fun video from Elsie for her new single Time To Go, presented as an INTERACTIVE "How To" on handling a pervy nightclub guy.
YOU control how she deals with him.
NB, must be watched on a computer as the interactive bits won't work on phones or iPads.
Spiritualized – “Hey Jane” (NSFW)
Drag queens are so chic these days. The Magnetic Fields dig ‘em, so do The Drums, and now apparently Spiritualized does, as well. Except, that the UK collective’s video is a tad darker, gritty, and realistic. In the video for “Hey Jane”, the NSFW 10-minute clip focuses on a troubled transvestite, who juggles regular every day activities, like dropping the kids off to school, arranging meals, and the occasional blow job to the paid customer. Yeah, like we said, it’s pretty gritty. Check it out below, then call your mother and ask if she’s ever had a day this insane – or, actually, don’t.
3/15/2012
Diplo - "Express Yourself" (ft. Nicky Da B) Official Music Video
Here’s the clip for Diplo’s frenetic “Express Yourself,” a hyperactive jolt of color/shaking asses directed by possible Seapunk inventor @LILINTERNET. Slightly NSFW, for the afore-mentioned asses.
The Chairmen - With No Heart Beat
Artist - The Chairmen
Song - With No Heart Beat
Produced by - The Binary Department
Marina and the Diamonds - "Primadonna" (Part 4)
Marina and the Diamonds, "Primadonna" (dir. Caspar Balslev)
And more:
Part 1: "Fear And Loathing" - Marina and the Diamonds
Part 2: "Radioactive" - Marina and the Diamonds
Part 3: "The Archetypes" - Marina and the Diamonds
The Chase
Philippe Gamer (Nexus) writes and directs, The Chase, a Bruckenheimer-esque short with a twist ending. Production by Space Patrol.
3/14/2012
The Shoes – “Time To Dance” Video (Feat. Jake Gyllenhaal)
In the video for the Shoes’ disco-punk banger “Time To Dance,” Jake Gyllenhaal plays a troubled individual who opts to spend his evenings by putting on a fencing mask and chopping fashionable young people into pieces. You know you’re balling out when you’ve got Donnie Darko murking people in your video. Daniel Wolfe directs. It’s nearly nine minutes of extremely gruesome creepiness.
Nullarbor
Nullarbor is a 10-minute video written by Patrick Sarell and directed by Alister Lockhart. One of the best animations I've ever seen.
3/12/2012
BigBang – “Bad Boy”
The Korean pop assembly line is a truly wondrous thing. The country is cranking out absurdist, high-gloss, stick-in-your-brain music videos at a ridiculous rate these days, and I am entirely capable of losing entire hours just by clicking from one YouTube link to the next. From what I can tell, the biggest boy band in the country is BigBang, whose new video, a take on American ’90s-R&B ruffneck love songs, was inexplicably filmed outside a Williamsburg JMZ stop. The choreography is no-shit delightful, the clothes are wonderfully goofy, and the song is dangerously catchy. Pay special attention to group member T.O.P., who manages to comport himself with sleepy-eyed bad-motherfucker panache while wearing a military waistcoat, a gigantic bejeweled-skull medallion, and turquoise Gumby hair.
Los Niños Mutantes - Hundir la flota
Los Niños Mutantes, Hundir la flota, Director Alexis Morante
Monkeys from Gibraltar are witnessing a game of boats fighting which is held by two players in the Algeciras Bay. There, The band from Granada Los Niños Mutantes performs the song Hundir la flota when sailing in the middle of a rain of rockets. This is a song taken from their recently launched cd, Náufragos.
Glove and Boots: The History of Television
Glove and Boots - The History of Television
A brief history of American Television, told through music and puppets.
3/09/2012
Mind Spiders – “Wait For Us”
“A reclusive man sends a distress beacon to catch his ticket off an abandoned planet,” reads the plot synopsis of Texas garage ensemble Mind Spiders’ video for “Wait For Us,” which is pretty much the best, eeriest possible jump-off for a sci-fi-tinged clip. The set is MST3K-like in it’s clever, homemade fashion, where performance footage is spliced with a tale of astronaut intrigue and escape. Jason Reimer directs.
Titus Andronicus – “Ecce Homo” & “Still Life with Hot Deuce AND Silver Platter”
Titus Andronicus – “Ecce Homo” & “Still Life with Hot Deuce AND Silver Platter”
Father John Misty - "Nancy From Now On" (NSFW)
The former Fleet Foxes member and longtime solo artist J. Tillman will soon release Fear Fun, his first album under his Father John Misty alias. His first video, for “Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings,” featured Parks & Recreation star Aubrey Plaza. His newest video, for “Nancy From Now On,” doesn’t have that star-factor, but it ups the ante considerably by focusing on Tillman’s hotel-room party with a small gang of dominatrixes. It’s quite possibly the single most playful and ridiculous thing to ever be even vaguely associated with Fleet Foxes, and there’s just a touch of nudity at the end. Tillman and Amy Cargill direct.
Usher - "Climax"
Earlier this year, Usher linked with Diplo to make “Climax,” a pretty amazing heartbroken R&B track with masterful dance-music flourishes and an excellently subtle string arrangement from indie-classical wunderkind Nico Muhly. It’s an early contender for single of the year and a fine reminder that, no matter what you may think of Usher and/or Diplo, they are both extremely good at driving their respective lanes. The new “Climax” video is a bit of fairly typical R&B-video melodrama, all about Usher contemplating the different tragic paths he and his ladyfriend could take, but it’s a nice excuse to enjoy the song again.
Lostprophets - Bring 'Em Down
Wadders gets the shit kicked out of him in LP's new video. Ouchie.
Directed by: Jamie Harley
Florence & The Machine – “Never Let Me Go”
“Never Let Me Go” is one of the biggest, grandest ballads on Florence & The Machine’s Ceremonials, an album absolutely packed with big, grand ballads. In its new video, a newly gothified Florence Welch indulges in a bit of ice-rink romance, and things don’t turn out too well.
Cymbals Eat Guitars – “Definite Darkness”
The video for “Definite Darkness,” a triumphant guitar-rager from Staten Island ’90s-indie revivalists Cymbals Eat Guitars, consists entirely of footage from some sort of drill-team tryout. In the fuzzy vintage imagery, we see huge choreographed routines, emotional reactions to news of cuts, and the visceral difficulty of maintaining a rictus smile for a long period of time. Jamie Harley directs.
Washed Out - Flower Anthem
Video by Karina Eibatova. It features a woman affixing some flowers to her face, so naturally it’s called “Flower Anthem.” It features the songs recorded during the session, “Amor Fati,” “Feel It All Around” and “You’ll See It.”
Big K.R.I.T. – “Boobie Miles”
“Boobie Miles,” the elegiac inspiration-rap leadoff track from Big K.R.I.T.’s strong new 4Eva N A Day mixtape, now has a video that intersperses images of K.R.I.T. rapping and writing with rapturous slow-motion black-and-white footage of dudes practicing their craft at soccer, basketball, and BMX trick-riding. Va$htie directs.
The London Circuit - Walk
The London Circuit - Walk - Director: Dan Jobson
Film clip for The London Circuits' soon to be released EP - Walk.
Made by: Dan Jobson
Co Directed by: David Clapham
Puppets:
Hannah McCann
Starring:
Matt Faulkner (Vocals)
Damo Blankley (Guitar)
Chris Jones (Bass)
Justin Craig (Guitar)
Riccardo Natoli (Drums)
Moonbootica — Iconic (NSFW)
The sequel to 'Our Disco Is Louder Than Yours' - view the first film here: vimeo.com/37238068
Directed by Skinny
Produced by Partizan
Producer: Jason Baum
Executive Producer: Julian Holland, Jeff Pantaleo
Director of Photography: Larkin Seiple
Label: Moonbootique
Editor: Arianna Tomasettig
Art Director: Maxwell Orgell
Wardrobe: Sophia DeArborne
Sound Design: Peter Lauridsen
Colorist: Marc Steinberg
The Simpsons - 'Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart' (Full Episode)
"Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart" is the fifteenth episode of the Season 23. It originally aired on March 4, 2012. Shepard Fairey, Ron English, Kenny Scharf and Robbie Conal guest star and Nick McKaig performed the end title song.
Sypnosis
In order to get back at his dad, Bart goes undercover as a graffiti street artist and plasters Homer's unflattering image all over Springfield. But one night, Bart and Milhouse get caught in the act by established street artists Shepard Fairey, Ron English, Kenny Scharf and Robbie Conal (guest voicing as themselves), and to Bart's surprise, they invite him to exhibit his satirical artwork in his very own gallery show. Meanwhile, a hip, new health food superstore opens in Springfield that threatens to put Apu and the Kwik-E-Mart out of business.
3/08/2012
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – “Hysterical”
Recently, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah dropped the paint-splattered, highly stylized clip for their “Hysterical.”
Keep Shelly in Athens - Our Own Dream
Official music video for Keep Shelly in Athens, 'Our Own Dream'.
written directed edited by Thanasis Tsimpinis
Sharon Van Etten – “Leonard”
Earlier today, Sharon Van Etten dropped a kaleidoscopic (literally) visual for Tramp standout “Leonard.”
The Golden Filter - "Kill Me" (NSFW)
The Golden Filter‘s new video for “Kill Me” features a mother’s love for her son veer into some pretty twisted places. NSFW for blood and some other somewhat graphic sequences. I Googled “reverse Oedipus complex” and came up with “Jocasta complex,” so, yeah, it’s dark! Watch the High5Collective-directed clip.
Bowerbirds – “Tuck The Darkness In”
In the video for Bowerbirds’ gorgeous indie-folk ramble “Tuck The Darkness In,” a little kid watches his father catch a fish and then goes off on a soul-searching adventure. The clip works as a sort of vegetarian polemic, but I don’t think that’s the entire intent. It also works on its own terms: As a beautifully shot, deeply empathetic music video with a devastating performance from the kid at its center. This is a good one, folks. Carlos Lopez Estrada directs.
Here We Go Magic – “Make Up Your Mind”
Directed by Nat Livingston Johnson & Gregory Mitnick of PEKING.
www.superpeking.com
Björk – “Hollow”
Björk doesn’t appear in the video for her pulsing, orchestral Biophilia song “Hollow” — or, if she does, it’s an image of Björk magnified so many times that it’s impossible to tell who it is. In keeping with Biophilia’s science-besotted theme, she’s collaborated on the video with biomedical animator Drew Berry to create a colorful, animated vision of DNA replication, though faces and butterflies and weirdly pretty touches like that sometimes float through.
Talking about the video, Björk says:
“It’s just the feeling when you start thinking about your ancestors and DNA that the grounds open below you and you can feel your mother and her mother, and her mother, and her mother, and her mother 30,000 years back. So suddenly you’re this kinda tunnel, or trunk of DNA… All these ghosts come up so it ended up begin a Halloween song and quite gothic in a way… It’s like being part of this everlasting necklace when you’re just a bead on a chain and you sort of want to belong and be a part of it and it’s just like a miracle.”
Odd Future - "NY (Ned Flander)" [feat. Hodgy Beats & Tyler, The Creator]
Billed as a sequel to their “Rella” video, Odd Future’s latest clip for “NY (Ned Flander)” is awash with similar bizarre imagery, where Tyler plays a rapping baby and Hodgy Beats plays a deadbeat. Tyler (Wolf Haley) directs, obviously.
"Cobwebs" - Cyriak
Cobwebs is an animation sequence full of spiders that Cyrak Harris made for Showtime. Be warned this has seriously creepy imagery, but you would expect nothing less from Cyriak. -via The Daily What
Guardian open journalism: Three Little Pigs
This advert for the Guardian's open journalism, screened for the first time on 29 February 2012, imagines how we might cover the story of the three little pigs in print and online. Follow the story from the paper's front page headline, through a social media discussion and finally to an unexpected conclusion
The Kraken Existence
Adam Gault Studio brings Steven Noble’s illustrations to life in three spots for The Kracken Black Spiced Rum: Strength, Survival, and Existence.
3/05/2012
Chromatics – “Candy” Video
Over the past few months, we’ve posted three videos from the atmospheric, slow-pulse Italo revivalists Chromatics: “Kill For Love,” “Into The Black,” and “Lady,” all from their forthcoming album Kill For Love. And now the band has released the fourth video from the album, this one for the new track “Candy.” Like the others, it has visuals that seem pulled from a no-budget ’70s sci-fi movie, right down to the film stock. Frequent director Alberto Rossini directs.
Watch A Documentary On Karen O’s Stop The Virgens
Last year, Yeah Yeah Yeahs leader Karen O mounted an ambitious theatrical project in the form of Stop The Virgens, a “psycho opera” that was part of the big Creators Project event in New York. And now there’s a two-part documentary about the project, following it from its genesis to the moment it came to the stage. Turns out that Stop The Virgens was based on a solo album that Karen recorded in 2005 and then never released. Watch that full documentary below.
(via the Creators Project)
The Shins – “Bait And Switch”
The Shins’ “Simple Song” video was a fun, whimsical, ambitious family narrative with a fully realized plot, but the band’s new clip for the sparkly, uptempo Port Of Morrow track “Bait And Switch” takes the opposite approach. It’s strictly bare-bones — just the band playing a song in a practice room somewhere. But it’s nicely shot, and the song, it bears mentioning, is great.
Blouse - Ghost Dream (Official Music Video)
The video for “Ghost Dream,” a seasick synthpop ballad from Portland duo Blouse, takes place entirely in a tripped-out primitive CGI fantasia full of jeeps and basketballs and Macintosh clip-art. It’s like a few hundred different mid-’90s screensavers coming to life to fight each other, or like what the Lawnmower Man dreams about when he goes to sleep. Gusti Fink and Helmut Ash Kaway direct.
Grimes – “Oblivion” (NSFW-ish)
This one, an instant classic, doesn’t draw its power from throwing Claire Boucher into all sorts of unexpected situations, though that is fun. Instead, that power comes from how utterly ebullient Boucher looks in every one of those situations, dancing around looking starry-eyed and unselfconscious no matter who happens to be surrounding her at that particular moment. And in its gorgeous hi-def cinematography and its general all-consuming happiness, it makes the blurpy sidelong electro-jam signify as actual pop music. Emily Kai Bock directs.
Nick Lowe – “Sensitive Man” Video (Feat. Wilco, Tim Heidecker, Robyn Hitchcock, Marc Maron)
Acerbic British great Nick Lowe hasn’t made a music video in 18 years, but now here’s a star-studded, slightly ridiculous one for his song “Sensitive Man.” Director Scott Jacobson‘s clip stars comedian and podcaster Marc Maron as a reluctant attendee at a self-help lesson taught by Tim Heidecker. Wilco and Robyn Hitchcock also make cameos.
Wise Blood – “Loud Mouths” (NSFW)
In Wise Blood’s video for “Loud Mouths,” the Pittsburgh weird-pop auteur survives a slow-motion car wreck, swaggers through a fancy-dress party, and encounters a naked corpse covered in CGI blooming roses. In the grand, hours-old tradition of Nite Jewel’s “One Second Of Love,” it’s a beautifully crafted, evocative music video that makes no sense at all. Alex Takacs and Joe Nankin direct.
Nite Jewel – “One Second Of Love”
In Nite Jewel’s clip for “One Second Of Love,” the title track from Ramona Gonzalez’s new album, some sort of blank-faced pagan religious sect invades a Real Housewives-style dinner party to run through a choreographed dance routine. Then a drag queen has a dance-off with a goat-masked demon priest, and various party guests puke up weird things. It makes absolutely no sense whatsoever, and it’s pretty great. Delaney Bishop directs, and Gonzalez appears to play two different roles.
The Phenomenal Handclap Band - Form & Control (Director : Moh Azima)
The Phenomenal Handclap Band - Form & Control (Director : Moh Azima)
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Goodbye Hooray [Music Video]
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Goodbye Hooray
Directed & Edited by SERG IVANENKO
3/01/2012
Filastine - Colony Collapse
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Music: Filastine (with Nova)
Director/DOP/Editor: Astu Prasidya (aka Tooliq)
Production and Concept: Grey Filastine & Nova
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