Director Isaac Rentz takes Cage The Elephant on a descent into rock n' roll madness in this perfectly roughshod performance clip that splits its time between junkyards, house parties and nightmares. --> watch "In One Ear"
Lady Gaga and director Jonas Akerlund channel the spirit of Quentin Tarantino in this very ambitious video for "Telephone." Some of the homages are absolutely explicit — the Pussy Wagon, or the quirky dialogue, for example — while others are more in spirit, such as the fascination with exploitation films like the Prison Chick inspiration that grounds the video.
Sorry kid, but your lame baking soda volcano ain't got a shot when Motion City Soundtrack hit the science fair with some truly next level projects. Virtual reality displays, a rock 'n' rolling robot, an on-the-spot creation of a theory of everything, and even more unlikely, a thoroughly competent display of choreographed dancing are more than enough for the MCS dorks to nab the trophies and blue ribbons. --> watch "Her Words Destroyed My Planet"
Commentaries. We used to do these all the time on videostatic.com, back when uploading a video was actually somewhat difficult. Now it's easy, so we're bringing it back. Bigger. Better. Maybe even more frequently.
Video concept: Set Three 6 Mafialoose for a wild night in Las Vegas. Superstar club DJ Tiesto on the turntables. Sean Kingston and Flo Rida along for the ride. Lots of hot Vegas locations and hot eye candy, plus a cameo by Paris Hilton*. Problem is, a video shoot with all that crew and equipment doesn't offer the kind of spontaneity that would really allow things to really take off. So, director Rich Newey jettisoned the usual gear in favor of shooting HD 1080 footage on a few Canon 5D and 7D still cameras, utilizing mostly natural light [if natural is the right term to describe the light, or anything about Vegas.
