October 2011

QUICK CLIP: Pixie Lott "What Do You Take Me For" (Declan Whitbloom, dir.)

And all UK pop star Pixie Lott wants do is dance, dance, dance in this sleek and sexy minimalist video. --> watch "What Do You Take Me For"

Pixie Lott f/ Pusha T"What Do You Take Me For" (Mercury)Declan Whitebloom, director | Helen Potter, producer | Black Dog Films, production co | Tat Radcliffe, DP | Caroline Story, production designer | Sheryl Murakami, choreographer | Svana Gisla, Jill Hammer, exec. producer | Tom Bird, commissioner

QUICK CLIP: City And Colour "Weightless" (Marc Ricciardelli, dir.)

Light comes flooding in, often segmenting the performance like a supernatural horizontal, in this heavenly performance clip for City And Colour. --> watch "Weightless"

City And Colour"Weightless" (Dine Alone)Marc Ricciardelli, director | Chris Cunningham, producer | Vision Ent., production co | Simon Shohet, DP  | Geoff McLean, exec. producer 

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WATCH IT: Yuksek "Always On The Run" (Skinny, dir.)

Just because you're living like an outlaw bohemian — completely off-the-grid, without morals (or shirts), subsisting on stolen booze and money — doesn't mean that you're any less bored and unhappy than you were back in suburbia. What's most shocking about this Yuksek video is that what I might have termed as a "Road Warrior post-apocalyptic" fantasy now doesn't seem that far off in the future. --> watch "Always On The Run"

WATCH NOW: Karen O "Abandoned (Mammas...)" (David Altobelli, dir.)

When does Chipotle commission a Flying Burrito Brothers "Hot Burrito" cover for one of these brand-enhancing videos? Instead, the mexican chain stays in the Willie Nelson wheelhouse, this time having Yeah Yeah Yeahs frontwoman Karen O tackle his classic "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Cowboys." Director David Altobelli delivers a spooky narrative piece in which a group of kids enter and trash an old farmhouse before realizing that they too may someday be left in the dust. --> watch "Abandoned" (for Chipotle Cultivate)

WATCH IT: Township "Golden Light" (Dark Arts Consortium, dir.)

Learn the secrets of rock with fictional Professor Cornell J. Habberdash and the Susquehanna Community College AV Club (also not to be confused with a real learning institution) in this tribute to the kind of educational fare that once dominated your local public access station. --> watch "Golden Light"

Township "Golden Light" Dark Arts Consortium/Josh Litwhiler, director | Dark Arts Consortium, production co | Josh Litwhiler/Judd Counsell, writers 

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