Looking back at the golden age of NASA and space travel through the distorted sights (and sounds) of The Faint. Taken from their "greatest hits" compilation, CAPSULE.
Sean Wainsteim, director: "You know that gutted feeling you get when a relationship ends?
It’s an onslaught of real, overwhelming emotions and memories. Memories that are often tied to places you still occupy. Living in that state can feel like both the deepest love and the most endless death.
The Mynabirds are on a mission to cheer up a sad sack bowling alley attendant. Balloons. Streamers. Confetti. Turns out he probably just needed a beer, but their daylong efforts and this super-poppy throwback song surely helped ensure that things ended up on a positive note. --> watch "Numbers Don't Lie"
artist: Cursive song: "From The Hips" label: Saddle Creek director(s): Michael Grodner production co: Tinnitus/Vitamin M producers: Niv Gat and Daniel Young
Screens, projections, psychedelic patterns, white lights/white suits... A series of photographs taken from the Brooklyn set of the new Bright Eyes video, "Hot Knives." Click em, make em bigger.
Video Static is very pleased to present this video podcast of the new Bright Eyes clip "At The Bottom Of Everything" directed by Cat Solen. The video is a mix of handmade animation in which a group of aggressive clouds decide to wage war on commercial airliners and live action footage of how the passengers aboard one of these planes react to their dire straits. Actors in the video include Terrance Stamp,Evan Rachel Wood and Brady Corbet.
Bright Eyes "Easy/Lucky/Free" Saddle CreekLily Thome & Lauri Faggioni, directorsPartizan, production companyDescription: A pretty simple video in the spirit of Bob Dylan's oft-imitated video for "Subterranean Homesick Blues." Conor Oberst aka Bright Eyes walks out of a room and starts to write the song lyrics on a pane of glass that separates him from the camera.
