September 2010

WATCH IT: My Chemical Romance "Art Is The Weapon (trailer)" (Nate Weaver, co-dir.)

What if My Chemical Romance got happy and decided to make a feature film opus that somehow combined the best of Buckaroo Banzai, Tank Girl, Kill Bill and featured comic book writer Grant Morrison as the bad guy? While it's unlikely to see anything that weird at the multiplex, you can look forward to a video for "Na Na Na" that should be as adventurous as this trailer. --> watch "Art Is The Weapon (trailer)"

NEWS: Vimeo Festival + Awards (and BUG Screening)

If you read Videostatic.com on any sort of regular basis, you already know my fondness for Vimeo, which has quickly established itself as sort of the professional's YouTube. Quality upload, quality embeds, quality. Now you can add quality awards show and festival to that list.

The Vimeo Festival + Awards go down October 8/9 inNYC, with a full docket of screenings, presentations, panels, workshops and, of course, awards.

WATCH IT: The Pretty Reckless "Make Me Wanna Die" (M. Avis/C. Ledoux, dir.)

Before you get snarky about former Gossip Girl starlet Taylor Momsen's segue into the world of rock n' roll, it's worth remembering that lots of same barbs were hurled at Jared Leto, another actor turned rocker, whose band 30 Seconds To Mars is now firmly entrenched as a core commercial alternative hitmaker. What that says about the nature of the music star here in the 21st century — Is it just another stage/screen role best left to professional actors? — is beyond my paygrade.

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