Beyoncé - "Pretty Hurts" (Official Video)

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Music video by Beyoncé performing Pretty Hurts. (C) 2013 Columbia Records, a Division of Sony Music Entertainment

Beyoncé - Pretty Hurts - Behind The Scene

Arcade Fire - Reflektor (Vevo Tour Exposed) Behind-The-Scenes Video Of Arcade Fire’s Reflektor Tour

Arcade Fire have been moving along on their massive tour with almost every night providing a new surprise, the most recent being a cover of Chuck Berry’s “Roll Over Beethoven.” Now you can watch a short behind-the-scene documentary of the tour that Will Butler describes as being like a tightrope act “and the tightrope walker has had a couple scotches.” They cover each aspect of the show in detail, discussing the concept that went into the lights and sound and interviewing the designers and stage manager. Later Dan Deacon shows up to talk about their (and the audience’s) costumes and the way they loosen inhibitions. 

Iron And Wine – “Joy” Video

According to director Hayley Morris, she made her video for “Joy,” a delicate song from Iron And Wine’s new album Ghost On Ghost, by “projecting hand-painted water color animations into stop-motion landscapes.” This sounds like an incredible amount of work! And in so doing, she created a sense of fragile and otherworldly beauty that she couldn’t have achieved if she hadn’t hand-made the whole thing.

When brainstorming ideas for possible narratives and visual interpretations of the song I was drawn to a particular lyric. “Deep inside the heart of this crazy mess I’m only calm when I get lost within your wilderness.” This is what sparked my idea.

Joy is a song about love and taking a moment to realize how someone can vastly change how you perceive yourself and the world around you. My goal for this video was to make the viewer feel this sense of joy, discovery and appreciation by following the organic flow of the song as the landscape changes through bursts of color, growth and transformation. Through his eyes we see how the woman Sam sings about changes his world by catching glimpses of her within the different plants, rocks, trees and objects that occupy the scenery/himself. In the end we see that he is full of color and vibrancy.

The video is a mixed-media piece. It’s composed of a blend of rotoscope watercolor animations and stop-motion. I hand made every piece in the landscape from found objects, paper, clay and various materials, and then projected her image into the set pieces. Each scene was shot frame by frame with Dragon in my studio space in my apartment. It was nice rolling out of bed and ready for work!

 "Joy" Behind the Scenes

Tegan And Sara – “Closer”

In Tegan And Sara’s new video for the fired-up and catchy single “Closer,” the Quin twins put their party-rocking skills on display at an adorable teenage rager. The song, it bares mentioning, has aged really well in the past couple of months. Isaac Rentz directs; watch the video along with a behind-the-scenes clip below.

Guy Walks Across America

Mike walks across America from New York to San Francisco. Here's a Google Map of our journey:
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Produced by Conscious Minds
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Directed by Sam Griffith

Music - "Home" by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
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Walk Across America - Behind the Scenes



Music - "Down River" by The Temper Trap
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