January 2014

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Breaking Records (Literally) With Paramore and Director Sophia Peer

Sometimes you break so many world records that it becomes a world record in and of itself. So, congratulations to Paramore and director Sophia Peer on breaking the most world records in a single music video.

Sure, some of these feats seem a bit random — Most Vinyl Records Broken By 3 People in 1 Minute, Fastest Time To Run Backwards Holding Stuffed Animals While Blindfolded For 30 Feet — but the fact remains that nobdoy has done any of these things better. And if you think you could one-up them, head to Paramore's recordsetter.com page and try your best.

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Holly Herndon "Chorus" (Akihiko Taniguchi, dir.)

Now that you probably live much of your life in the virtual sphere — tweeting, texting, chatting, Skyping, emailing and working — it might just be a matter of time before everything about your life becomes digital. And you actual desktop becomes a virtual one...

The song "Chorus" consists almost entirely from real-time samples taken from composer Holly Herndon's online life, collected via YouTube, Skype and other online tools. The video takes a similar artistic slant with director Akihiko Taniguchi building upon his earlier "Study of Real Time 3-D Internet" where you slide into an enveloping online life.

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C'mon Get Hatty with Pharrell

Being that Pharrell's hat was the most talked-about element of this year's Grammy Awards — perhaps all you need to know about the current state of music — then you just knew that a "Hatty" parody of his hit "Happy" was going to make it's way online...

What you didn't know was that Pharrell's own company, I Am Other, would be the one's behind it, with Syndrome placing the hatty effects onto the video originally directed by We Are From L.A.

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Bieber Hits The Beach in Panama for New Video Shoot

When the going gets tough, the tough gets back to work. Especially if "work" means hanging with your model girlfried and riding ATVs on the beach.

Justin Bieber is in Panama, shooting a new video. Looking "emotional" and/or "awesome" on an ATV.

And just in case you're worried about The Biebs after his run-in with the law, rest easy. Experts say his chances of deportation are slim.

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Prepare To Stare: The First Random Dot Autostereogram Video

Remember that "Magic Eye" visual craze where you had to stare at a picture of seemingly nothing but fuzz and defocus your eyes to reveal a hidden image? Usually of dinosaurs or something equally interesting.

The fancy name for that is "a random dot autostereogram" and this music video consists of solely that, created via the DIY 3D capabilities of the XBox Kinect and the RGBD-Toolkit.

It might take lots of practice to see the pretty pictures — try following some of the director's tips and some other versions they output with different features — but remember: You watch at your own risk. So, don't blame me if you get a headache straining to see this awesomeness.

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