October 2013

Keeping Time with Galaxy Gear and LCD Soundsystem

On one hand, I'm amazed we're not seeing Samsung Galaxy Gear watch product shots in every music video — maybe there's a Beats Watch that's already placed on hold on pop star wrists? On the other, I'm not sure any visual could be as effective as this simple spot which mixes classic fictional watch communicators — from Dick Tracy to Michael Knight — to the beat of LCD Soundsystem's modern classic, "Someone Great." 

The Dismemberment Plan "Waiting" (Billy Bungeroth, dir.)

Why settle for closed-captioning when you can have sign-language break things down for the hearing impaired? This first new Dismemberment Plan video in forever — their last album from was released in 2001 — stars students from Gallaudet University, a liberal arts college in the band's D.C. hometown that caters to a deaf and hard-of-hearing population.

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