April 2013

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Chris Brown "Fine China" (Sylvain White + Chris Brown, dir.)

Chris Brown - Fine China

The force of MJ is strong on this one as Chris Brown and co-director Sylvain White (Stomp the Yard, The Losers).  deliver a big video that plays like an updated version of "Smooth Criminal." The set-up is basic — Brown is romancing the daughter of an Asian mob boss who doesn't approve of the budding union— but it's enough to get them into a lengthy dance/battle sequence that's the centerpiece o

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OK Go + Saatchi & Saatchi Music Video Contest

OK Go made the viral video cool. Can they make the video contest cool?

Most music video professionals I know hate video contests, since it essentially asks you to work for free in hopes of fame and glory (and sometimes a cash prize). It's a good opportunity for someone trying to break in, but probably a bad deal for someone who trades in the business of ideas and executing them into a video.

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The Ramona Flowers "Lust & Lies" (Blake Claridge, dir.)

The Ramona Flowers - Lust and Lies

A man awakes in the desert with a noose tied around his leg... [SG]

This was a great project to get commissioned, it was the direction that I have been aiming to go down and was an enjoyable and intense seven hour shoot in the not so sunny LA. With the idea, I was excited that the band just got it and liked the simplicity.

It was the first video that I had done where the band weren't on set which was strange but was great that they were so on board with the idea and I love being involved with our amazing actors, Jack and Drew.

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The Flaming Lips f/ Bon Iver "Ashes In The Air" (NSFW)

The Flaming Lips & Bon Iver - Ashes In The Air

It starts with a astronaut, with a head that rapidly flashes between being a giant eye and a sly vagina, who emerges from a spaceship holding a baby with a grown man's face. It ends with a meat grinder. In between there's nudity, cannibalism, brains and all sorts of other genius insanity.

It's not safe for work; It's probably not safe for anywhere.

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Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Sacrilege" - reversed version (unofficial)

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Sacrilege [Reverse]

Befuddled by the chronologically tricky Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Sacrilege" video, which starts at the end and ends at the beginning? Well, independent editor/composer David Adametz irreversed it, so your linear brain can more easily understand this post-modern immorality tale.

Best Of The Month

Best Music Videos of March 2013

30 music videos plucked from the over 140 "watch it" posts we ran this March. This month's Best-Of covers nearly all the bases, from the jump-cut madness of Passion Pit, to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' chronologically challenging morality tale, rotoscope grafitti for Joey Bada$$, a first person shooter from Russia that became a breakout hit, and even some poppier fare.

Some of these are NSFW — especially the FOALS clip at the end —  so careful where you click.

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