When your DP is in the airport during a gunfire scare and you decide to make a music video out of it.
Carlos Lopez Estrada, director: "We had just filmed 2 videos for Watsky in Mexico City and our director of photography, Albert Salas, found himself back in New York, stuck in what seemed to be a terrorist attack. They later found out that the alleged gun fire had been the sound of a pistol signaling the start of an Olympic race, which was playing on multiple televisions at JFK." [via Vimeo]
Lots of videos with costume changes, but I don't think there's one as magical, cool and downright extra-terrestrial as what happens to Watsky in this collaboration with director Carlos Lopez Estrada.
PS: It's lightly NSFW, even if the front side of things is blurred for your protection.
Get in the ring with Watsky for what starts as a traditional fight, but soon becomes something more poetie and graceful, if not downright transcendent.
Things reveal themselves to be increasingly complicated as we look around Kari Faux's heartbreak home, but an end twist makes clear there's an even bigger, and stranger, danger outside her apartment window.
Can a music video director work the same magic on a theater stage? Director Carlos Lopez Estrada will surely pull off that trick as his theatrical production DED! plays throughout October at The Matrix Theatre in Los Angeles.
Inspired by the Day of the Dead tradition, Lopez Estrada and co-star/co-director Cristina Bercovitz present a multimedia show that combines clowning, mime, live music, puppetry and video art.
This "lost" video — it was originally shot in 2013, but revised with words and music by members and associates of the Clipping rap crew — is an example of how it's a long and strange way to top (regardless of whether or not you want to rock and roll)
This footage might look like old-school VHS, but nope: It's an iPhone 6. Don't let that fool you into thinking that anyone can make the awesomeness that ensues on-screen: Director Carlos Lopez Estrada depicts a long-distance relationship as if it was an insane side-scrolling video game where the two lovers beat crazy odds to get back together.
I'm guessing all of those school districts with new levies on the ballot this month don't have money allocated to buy the new Magic School Bus featured here in this latest from Aussie DJ Hook N Sling (who's the driver, naturally).
LA-based director/animator/creative Carlos Lopez Estrada has signed to Black Dog UK, while remaining with Doomsday for US representation and productions.
A cut-and-paste eye and mouth technique makes this the strangest beauty video ever, but it also serves a practical purpose in concealing identities when the cops show to arrest director Carlos Lopez Estrada and bust this guerilla video shoot.
Permits? We need permits?
Luckily, things get back on track for further twists and turns.
