Travis Hayes "Bath Salts" (Daniel Madore, dir.)
Remember when we were all worried about the Great Bath Salt Menace of Summer 2012? Zombified tweekers feasting on flesh and soap, or whatever the hell it was all about. Now we have bigger, realer worries: beheadings, ebola, naked photos of famous people on the Internet. But, flash to that first wave of Bath Salt Panic as you watch what's essentially an homage to the Spike Jonze x Wax "California" model: A slow motion chase, but in this case we have homeless drug addicts and the fire is contained to a lighter. I don't know who Travis Hayes is, or who these people are — shit, I don't even really know what bath salts are — and I will admit that there's a tinge of trustafarian slumming to the video concept, but there's also something ludicrously beautiful in watching what could be a :30 second segment from a lesser Miami Vice episode slowed down and played out like a graceful ballet.
