April 2015

Tyler Shaw "House of Cards" (RT!, dir.)

Alabama Shakes "Sound & Color" (James Frost, dir.)

2015: A Space Odyssey, or The Loneliness of the Long Distance Space Traveler.

Either way, it's the first "proper" Alabama Shakes video, even if it's depiction of a potentially doomed astronaut is light years from what you were expecting from a chart-topping act.

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Adam Lambert "Ghost Town" (Hype Williams, dir.)

Pop star Adam Lambert and director Hype Williams is a very unlikely combo, which is likely why both of them go hard to make this work very well indeed.

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Astronomyy "All I Need" (ESNAF, dir.)

It's all in the hands as a story unfolds in this new collaboration bnetween Astronomyy and directors ESNAF.

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Drew Lustman (AKA FaltyDL) "Wolves" (Lee Skinner, dir.)

This music video exploits a glitch inherent in most modern digital video cameras, that being the distortion caused by rolling shutter. Rolling shutter describes how modern CMOS sensor chips scan each frame progressively. which is responsible for the Jell-O like appearance of your shaky cell phone videos. For this music video, a motorized rig was built to spin a camera on its x-axis, so that it tumbles backward. Using a voltage dimmer, the motor is brought up to just the right speed so that each frame is scanned in the time that it takes to do a full revolution around.

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Heffron Drive "Happy Mistakes (Unplugged)" (Jacob Voelzke, dir.)

Kendall Schmidt and Dustin Belt of Heffron Drive recorded their entire new acoustic album themselves; here they are in the studio tracking "Happy Mistakes (Unplugged)".

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Muse "Dead Inside" (Robert Hales, dir.)

Dance is definitely the trend of 2015, ever since Sia’s “Chandelier” (and Kiesza’s “Hideaway”) broke some ground last year with their ur-dance videos. This time Muse and director Robert Hales take you inside a chalk-filled silo while two dancers express their kind of creepy selves.