Kurtis Blow Jr (no relation? It's his son!) seems to be just another cab driver working the overnight shift, except for the fact that there's a body in the trunk and most cabbies don't end their shift by wiping their prints off the car. --> watch "Californication"
Kurtis Blow Jr. "Californication" Donlee Brussel, director | T. Burton, DP | Max Meehan, asst. director
Delta Spirit perform amidst a junkyard of beaten, scarred, tattered, worn, battered and bruised cars while the video heads to a editorial crash of memories, mixing footage of family, nature, religion and speed upon more speed. Fun fact: All of the memory footage is from director Austin Peters' family archives. --> watch "White Table"
It's with much shock and sadness that I relay the tragic news that MTV executive Gabriel Ben-Meir, 30, was shot dead by a gunshot wound outside his Los Angeles house over the weekend. Police are currently searching for leads in the killing. More information can be found via the LA Times coverage:
The Canada production crew gets random, sexy, awesome with this new Battles video, mixing some ingenius multiple exposures with imagery that seems pulled from an excessively surreal American Apparel campaign. --> watch "Ice Cream"
"Judas" isn't The Last Temptataion of the Gaga, but it should stir up just enough controversy as it melds some Jesus/Mary Madalene/Judas imagery with more modern Biblical tales, like The Wild One and West Side Story. There's the now to be expected Lady Gaga stylistic touches — the little red lipstick gun could be a big Sephora seller — and a pretty beautiful baptism sequence in the middle, but overall it's more flamoboyant and rebellious than actually blasphemous. Which I guess is a disappointment if you were hoping for this cross to bear another round of the culture wars.--> watch "Judas"
