WATCH IT: Rob Thomas "Her Diamonds"

Alicia Silverstone is trapped under ice in this slick video for the equally slick new Rob Thomas single, "Her Diamonds." Director Dave Meyers depicts the actress as being literally frozen in a bedroom, sealed off from the outside world like a post-carbonite Lando Calrissian. The song and the sun work their magic, melting away the coldness and bringing her back into the real world. --> watch "Her Diamonds"

Rob Thomas "Her Diamonds" (Emblem/Atlantic)
Dave Meyers, director | Billy Parks, producer | DoubleJay Creative/@Radical.Media, production co | Damian Acevedo, DP | Ken Mowe, editor | Baked Goods, vfx

WATCH IT: Gnarls Barkley "Who's Gonna Save My Soul"

Good afternoon, heartbreak. This is for all the girls who broke your heart. Dumped you at the diner. Left you there in shock as she prattled on about all the reasons it's not you, but her, utterly ruining your cheeseburger deluxe, your day and possibly even your life. Director Chris Milk takes us to that situation and brings the emotions to life with this heart-wrenching and very unusual, very morbid and very genius performance video for Gnarls Barkley. I'd rather not totally ruin the surprise, so let's just say that fans of Michigan J. Frog and, uh, open heart surgery should be pleased.--> watch "Who's Gonna Save My Soul" via Quicktime or hi-res YouTube

Gnarls Barkley
"Who's Gonna Save My Soul" (Downtown/Atlantic)
Chris Milk, director | Anne Johnson, producer | @radical.media, production co | Danny Hiele, DP | Livio Sanchez @ filmcore, editor | Zach Matthews, prod. designer | Gradient Effects, fx + animation | Image Metrics, mouth animation | Dave Hussey, telecine

BOOKED: Linkin Park - Mr. Hahn, director

artist: Linkin Park
song: "Leave Out All The Rest"
label: Warner Bros.
director(s): Mr. Hahn
production co: @radical.media

NEW RELEASE: Lil Mama/T-Pain/Chris Brown "Shawty Get Loose"

Lil' Mama and guests Chris Brown and T-Pain pay homage to the original futuristic collaboration video — Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson's "Scream" — in this sleek clip for "Shawty Get Loose." Just as tricky as wrangling three stars onto the set was the CG work, which included "building" what's really just a virtual console that T-Pain manipulates. -->watch "Shawty Get Loose"

Lil' Mama"Shawty Get Loose" (Jive/ZLG)
R. Malcolm Jones, director | Steven Johnson, producer | @radical.media/Factory Features, production co| Brandon Cox, DP | Zuk, editor | Baked Goods, effects

BOOKED: Ray J - R. Malcolm Jones, director

artist: Ray J feat. Yung Berg
song: "Sexy Can I"
label: Koch/Deja34/Knockout
director(s): R. Malcolm Jones
production co: Factory Features (R. Malcolm Jones is signed with @radical.media)

NEW RELEASE: Luna Halo "Untouchable"

It's not a steel cage match — and it's not as cool as Scorpions "Rock You Like A Hurricane" —  but things are plenty dangerous in this video for Luna Halo. The band performs from a makeshift, electric fence cage. The contraption is not keep Luna Halo in captivity, but to keep the visiting hooligans from inflicting damage upon our rockers. In the end, the potential ass kickers bust through, thereby proving that an electric fence sign is not as effective a deterrent as actually electrifying the fence. --> watch "Untouchable"

Luna Halo "Untouchable" (American/Columbia)
Greg Jardin, director | Flick Wiltshire, producer | @radical.media, production co | Damian Acevedo, DP

BOOKED: Linkin Park - Mr. Hahn, director

Linkin Park's own Mr. Joe Hahn is directing this next video off Minutes To Midnight...

artist: Linkin Park
song: "Shadow Of The Day"   
label: Warner Bros.
director(s): Mr. Hahn
production co: @radical.media

 

BOOKED: Linkin Park - Mr. Hahn, director

Being directed by Linkin Park's own Mr. Hahn...

artist: Linkin Park
song: "Bleed It Out"
label: Warner Bros.
director(s): Mr. Hahn
production co: @radical.media

PROFILE: Chris Milk, Radical Media

Hyperbole be damned, Chris Milk may very well be the most creative director working in music video today. And, when you consider that he tends to work with much more mainstream acts than many of his cutting edge peers and still gets away with his unexpected flights of fancy, it's all the more impressive. His output over the past year or so has included a performance video for Green Day and U2 that doubled as a powerful statement about our government's priorities, a story of a randy bug for Gnarls Barkley, and an epic Evel Kneivalization of Kanye West. Not surprisingly, he is nominated for Best Director honors at the 2007 MVPA Awards — being held Wednesday, May 16 in Los Angeles.

name: Chris Milk   
company: @radical.media
job/title: director

First video: Chemical Brothers "Golden Path." Jennifer Heath [Milk's rep] convinced them to let me write. It seemed like a complete pipe dream. Then, to all of our surprise, they gave it to me. To their credit, Carole Fairbrother at Virgin and the Chems liked the treatment and gave me the job even though I had no videos on my reel.

Strangest Video: Courtney Love "Mono." My second video and her first as a solo artist. First meeting to go over the concept was in rehab. I'm not sure either of us were ready to make that video.

What's Next: Shooting a zero budget video for Travis right now. Feels like film school again. Fran Healy , the lead singer, and I shot with no permit in a park in Malibu last weekend. I was holding a light reflector disk with my teeth and one hand, and operating camera with the other. Would have been a piece of cake if not for the 40mph wind. 

Working on some video/sculpture installation pieces, hopefully for some sort of eventual gallery exhibit.  Shooting more still photography.

Looking for a feature film script inspiring enough to devote the next few years of my life to.

[note: visit Chrismilk.com for higher-res quicktimes of all the above videos. Click on the "moving" section.] 

SHOT: Linkin Park - Mr. Hahn, director

Director Mr. Hahn — best known as the DJ in multi-Platinum group Linkin Park — oversees the action with DP Max Goldman (center) and other crew members on the set of his band's new video "What I've Done." This will be the first video off the forthcoming Linkin Park album, Minutes To Midnight.

artist: Linkin Park
song: "What I've Done"
label: Warner Bros.
director(s): Mr. Hahn
production co: @radical.media