Work hard, train hard, play hard, prey hard — or, at the very least, imagine you're doing all that while you drift off into dreams. Intensity seems to be the common theme in the diverse lifestyle portraits that make up "Revolution," until a business woman straps on a neon inhaler that casts everything in a different light.
It's not just All Gold Everything in this manic Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. "Run" video. It's art direction gone mad, with one amazing set-up after another.
Rapid-fire edits flash back-and-forth at various locations, revealing the ghosts that remain between opposites, like night and day. For instance, in an opening scene we see a woman planting seeds at morning while a man in a trench coat at night is seen dropping seed (if you know what I mean.). Yes, some of it is some is unsavory and NSFW, but it's all consistently interesting and impressive.
Crystal Fighters have taken that originally indie step and not actually featured in their promo for 'Waves'. Instead a troupe of acrobats swing in perfect synchronization to visually interpret the lyrics. Sometimes simple is more than enough. This is one of those cases.
Call this The Hangover for the tween set, since R5 IS Disney-affiliated. Still, Japan is known for crazy things in their culture, so the aftermath of a wild party there shouldn't be that unexpected. Let your imagination run wild as to what really happened.
Sorry Cattle Decapitation, but Marijuana Deathsquads is my new favorite band name. And I bet there are more than a few directors who are really bummed that someone else got to make an epic suicidal Ewok video.
Inside Llewyn Davis star Oscar Isaac could develop a reputation for taking odd on-screen journeys. His role as Mr. Carpool in Trentemøller "Gravity" doesn't have the soul-searching qualities as the one he makes in the Coen brothers folk movie, but it's filled with even more unexpected characters.
Tue Walin Storm and Elvira Lind, directors: "We wanted to make a video that paid tribute to LA and to the great diversity of people inhabiting this incredible place. It’s a journey on the pulsating veins of the city, the inevitable freeway. Simultaneously we wanted to enter the private sphere of random people’s vehicles – which basically is an extension of ones home – and explore the intimate moment when two strangers are voluntarily invaded by each other in a confined space.
We come from different backgrounds — Elvira from documentaries background and Tue from fiction as part of the directing duo Storm/Hansen — so we wanted to utilize our different work methods in our approach to the video and create a fictionalized documentary.
The idea was to have a more or less scripted story line, but letting the details write themselves as we were shooting. We used a mix of actors and real people who brought their own stories and personalities to the table. We created a few characters we knew we wanted in the video, but the majority are improvised as we shoot and captured in a documentary fashion. Mr. Carpool is all Oscar. He’s a brilliant actor and created this amazing personality for the character.
Here, in the age of Banksy, it's nice to appreciate the time and effort it takes to create and paint an "old-school" style graffiti drawing. Granted, this one takes up about six stories, but still...
This is the first single off FTP's sophomore album Supermodel, schedule for March release. It's also a spotlight on the LA Freewalls Project. This one can be found at 539 S. Los Angeles St. in downtown LA. Safe travels.
Music Videos Without Music isn't as dumb as it sounds. And, it's not as simple as just hitting the mute button.
As you can see in this new MVWM version of Prodigy "Firestarter" — or this older soundless version of Macklemore and Ryan Lewis "Thrift Shop" — it's more about subbing the music with a sounddesign that makes everything seem a lot sillier.
Something sacrilegious is afoot in this video for "Can't Rely On You," which opens with Paloma Faith narrating in Italian and ends with something sinister.
When it comes to fashion, it's important to coordinate — something director Tim Nackashi and his design team manage perfectly in this fun video about shooting a video.
