Radical Media

WATCH IT: Rome "2 Against 1" (Chris Milk & Anthony F. Schepperd, dir.)

There's a haunting in this spellbinding, hand-drawn animated video Rome, the musical colloaboration between Danger Mouse and Italian composer Daniel Luppi, with singers Jack White and Norah Jones. As White's plaintive vocals sketch out a situation of being your own worst enemy, director Chris Milk and animator/co-director Anthony Francisco Schepperd present a spiraling fever dream in which a man gets steadily led over the brink, one bloody footprint at a time. --> watch "Two Against One" 

QUICK CLIP: Elle Varner "Only Wanna Give It To You" (Orson Whales, dir.)

Bright pop imagery and some clever sharp cuts and transitions add another level to the deep bass groove of this Elle Varner trackfeaturing J. Cole. --> watch "Only Wanna Give It To You"

Elle Varner f/ J. Cole"Only Wanna Give It To You" (MBK/J)Orson Whales, director | Garen Barsegian, producer | Radical Media, production co | Tish Anderson, Maureen Walsh, production designers | Samantha Lecca, Nicholas Robespierre, commissioner 

WATCH IT: Apple Mac Music Video (Dennis Liu, dir.)

This site was built on a Mac. Probably every video I've ever posted has been created through one Apple product or another, be it Final Cut Pro or even an iPhone. Many of you are surely reading this on your iDevice or Mac. And don't get me started on the many Apple product cameos in videos over the years.

Here's a music video directed by Dennis Liu that seems apropos to post. At the time he wasn't a professional director, and he didn't have a studio or team at his disposal, so this was 100% DIY on his Mac (and was also the start of his professional career).

WATCH IT: Rome "3 Dreams Of Black" (Chris Milk, dir.)

A music video? A video game? Does it matter? Chris Milk follows up his previous Google collaboration for Arcade Fire with this new interactive "Chrome Experiment" for Rome, a a new project from Italian composer Daniele Luppi and US producer/musician Danger Mouse with Jack White and Norah Jones. Whereas the Arcade Fire's Neighbohood Downtown manipulated Google maps and street views based on whatever address you inputted, "3 Dreams Black" is a trippy dreamscape through you which navigate.

WATCH IT: Katy Perry "Firework" (Dave Meyers, dir.)

While Katy Perry's chest-sparklers get all the attention, there's another interesting angle to the video: Shot on location in Budapest, the video features Perry people a crowd of 250 fans selected from a Katy Perry/Deutsche Telekom/T-Mobile contest in which fans were asked to share inspirational stories and videos detailing what "sparked" them to achieve and/or persevere. As such, the video is dedicated to the "It Gets Better" campaign, thereby proving that Perry's pyrotechnic bosom can be a force for good.

WATCH IT: Arcade Fire - The Wilderness Downtown (Chris Milk, dir.)

The internet has allowed music videos to be on-demand. You can watch what you want, when you want. That's revolutionary, for sure, but music videos themselves have largely remained the same as when they were only available on linear TV. Credit director Chris Milk with realizing that music videos shouldn't be encumbered by the old rules. Music videos don't have to be linear, they don't have to be static, they don't have to even appear in only one window. This video project for the Arcade Fire song "We Used To Wait"  accomplishes all of those goals and is the next step in the actual transformation of music videos from the old way into something very new.