Tim Cruz

Maggie McClure "Happiest of Holidays" (Tim Cruz, dir.)

When I originally pitched this video to Maggie and Shane it was themed to to my personal favorite christmas movie "Die Hard", but with 2 days of prep till shoot, it was a bit of a stretch so we comprimised with a childhood favorite flick "Home Alone" which coincidentally celebrates it's 25th Anniversary this month. (Yes we're that Old) Shot a week before it's Thanksgiving release, please enjoy our silly loving homage to Kevin McCalister and his traps. 

By Tim Cruz on December 1, 2015 @ 2:00pm PST

Theophilus London "Rio" (Tim Cruz, dir.)

Theophilus London - "Rio (feat. Menahan Street Band)" (Official Music Video)

Although "Rio" might bring to mind images of beaches and butt-floss (or Duran Duran, if you're old), director Tim Cruz keeps things gritty (yet still sexy) with a performance video that takes place in contrasting black and white interior locations. 

YouTube Tape Mode Rules

YouTube's new tape mode is one of those fantastic Google experiments that exists for no other reason than some engineer thought it'd be fun and they were able to figure it out.

In celebration of the 57th anniversary of video tape, YouTube now has a tape mode — signified by a VHS tape icon in the bottom menu bar — letting you flashback to the awful artifacts and problems you would encounter all the time with VHS. 

There are a few caveats: