NEWS: Regina Spektor Web Video Trilogy

Three web videos are currently in production for singer/songwriter Regina Spektor:

• Adria Petty is directing "Fidelity" through her own Adria Petty Design. Petty directed "Us" and several other pieces in support of Spektor's last album, Soviet Kitsch.
• Peter Sluszka is directing "Samson," which is being co-produced through Hornet and Adria Petty Design. Sluszka was the animation director for Spektor's "Us."
• Matt Lenski is directing "On The Radio." Lenski is signed with Rockhard Films and represented by Robin Frank Management.

Look for this web trilogy to debut in anticipation of Regina Spektor's upcoming  Sire/Warner Bros. album, Begin To Hope.

BOOKED: Peter Walker - Ace Norton, director

Director Ace Norton will employ an infinity camera technique to visualize the emotions caused by remembering a lost love.

artist: Peter Walker
song: "What Do I Know"
label: Dangerbird
director(s): Ace Norton
production co: Partizan

SHOT: Stefy - Nigel Dick, director

artist: Stefy
song: "Chelsea"
label: Wind-Up
director(s): Nigel Dick
production co: DNA

BOOKED: Dem Franchize Boys - Juwan Lee, director

artist: Dem Franchize Boys
song: "Ridin' Rims"
label: So So Def/Virgin
director(s): Juwan Lee
production co: F.M. Rocks
rep: Milk & Honey

NEW RELEASE: Fort Minor "Where'd You Go"

Fort Minor feat. Holly Brook
"Where'd You Go" (Warner Bros.)
Philip Andelman, director | Rachel Curl, producer | Partizan, production co | David Lanzenberg, DP | Barney Miller, editor | Description: Fort Minor's Mike Shinoda and special guests Holly Brook and Jonah Matranga perform this trip-hop tune about loss in the actual homes of actual people who are experiencing that emotion. A daughter grapples with new responsibilities after her parents divorce; a baseball player's wife takes care of the kids while he's in season; and most tragically, two parents mourn the loss of their son in Iraq. In order to totally convey their feelings, Philip Andelman gives them all individual interview segments. --  Watch a "Making Of" special at Fort Minor's Myspace page, or the video itself at Yahoo

NEW RELEASE: Mellowdrone "Oh My"

Mellowdrone
"Oh My" (3/Red Ink/Columbia)
Vince Haycock, director /editor| PJ Sodaski, producer | Vitamin Pictures, production co | RW Media, rep | Russ Harper, DP | Description: Mellowdrone and their instruments come crashing to the ground in this video for synth rock gem "Oh My." High speed cameras and lil' visual FX make it seem like the band members are descending from the heavens in ultra slow motion. None of the Mellowdroners are injured in the fall, but all of their instruments shatter upon impact. -- watch "Oh My"

NEWS: Brett Simon Signs With DNA

Director Brett Simon has joined the roster at DNA. His directing credits include videos for The Killers, Hoobastank, The Walkmen and Unwritten Law.

NEWS: Death Cab Video Actor Turns Vigilante

Not only does James "P.J." Ransone have eternal indie cred  for his starring role in director Laurent Briet's Death Cab For Cutie video "What Sarah Said," but he's also a hero. The actor made the news yesterday for coming to the rescue of a woman who had been attacked by a rapist.

The actor prevented the rape and chased down the assailant, who he subsequently beat with a metal bar. A story in The New York Post's Page Six column quotes the actor as saying, "I pictured my mom, my girlfriend and every girl I've ever loved and thought, 'Vengeance is mine.' " Read the full story at the New York Post.

BOOKED: Halifax - Ahmi Manson, director

artist: Halifax
song: "Our Revolution"
label: Drive-Thru
director(s): Ahmi Manson
production co: Gloss Pictures

NEW RELEASE: The Flaming Lips "Yeah Yeah Yeah Song"

The Flaming Lips
"Yeah Yeah Yeah Song" (Warner Bros.)
Traktor, directors | Rani Melendez, producer | Partizan, production co | Omer Ganai, DP | Haines Hall & Damion Clayton, editors | Description:  What would you do with absolute power? Would you be malicious and evil? Would you give in to your basest desires and instincts? Probably, but chances are you wouldn't be as clever as what the production team of Traktor come up with in this video for the equally creative mad geniuses of The Flaming Lips. In "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song," the Lips take part in a sinister plan to tape food products to people and set them loose in dangerous circumstances. For example, Krispy Kremes are attached to a Paris Hilton look-a-like and she's made her fend for herself in roomful of doughnut-loving cops. A man gets saddled with hamburger in the presence of obese men. Eventually, frontman Wayne Coyne finds himself a victim of the madness: Raw meat is stapled to his suit  and he's forced to outrun a voracious werewolf. In a way, it's all way more sinister and infinitely more interesting than what any of the masochistic acts in the slasher flick Hostel, which dealt with the same "philosophical" question. -- watch "Yeah Yeah Yeah Song" in QuickTime or Windows Media