Update: Commenter SuzyQPants points out (much to my embarrassment) that this is apparently a parody music video by Hot Chip, an electropop band from England. The band’s single “Over and Over” has over 3.2 million views at the moment.
What did I just see? This UK boy band’s music video starts out normally, then quickly turns up the WTF meter to 11. 
You will have to watch the video on Youtube, as embedding has been disabled on this one.
The surreal music video for Dancing Pigeons’ “Ritalin” was directed by Tomas Mankovsky. Most of the footage in the video was shot with a using a high-speed Phantom camera, at speeds ranging from 400 to a 1000 fps.
Tomas Mankovsky’s new video “Ritalin” for Dancing Pigeons as part of Diesel:U:Music, is a foreboding yet strangely humorous depiction of a seemingly pointless modern day sword fight.
“Duels fascinate me. It used to be a popular thing, but in modern days it has died out. So I thought that probably somewhere in the States, some hillbillies are still doing it, their way.”
Mankovsky has created an aggressive, yet beautiful piece relying on the preconceptions and fears that surround the culture of the stereotypical American rednecks.
Continue reading ‘Ritalin– Hillbillies Fighting With Flamethrowers and Ice’
This is trippy stuff!
Mister Bibal, a hiphop and beat artist from France, writes,
After 3000 downloads reached by "B E A T S & B R E A K S D E U X", I’m proud to announce you the release of my last free beatape: "Beats & Breaks Trois". This is a perfect mixture between glitch-hop & soulful, between Flying Lotus & Sa-ra Creative Partners.
You can listen to and download the complete album here.
Official one by an artist, that is. The video, made for the song “Cascades” by flakjakt, was directed by Marty Martin.
In a fun weeklong experiment, my friend Marty and I collaborated on this video for an original song I wrote specifically for the iPhone 4 shoot. The overall goal was to produce a music video you can get down with – first and foremost – regardless of what camera we were shooting with. I think the end result turned out fantasmic! I hope you do too.
I recommend watching the video in HD on YouTube.
A short love story, filmed in the streets of Paris.
The video was made for miCkey [3d], a French rock band.
Link to the video on Vimeo.
I loved this.
Watch Kirk & co. grooving to Ke$ha’s Tik Tok.
This music video was made for Sak Tzevul (lightning), a Mexican progressive rock band. The surreal visuals were shot in Chiapas, the southernmost state of Mexico. The state, though blessed with great natural beauty, is rapidly being devastated by large scale deforestation and insurgency.
The moving images were projected during the band’s live performance, at a show organized by the government of the state of Chiapas.
Frank Beltrán, who put together the entire film, derived inspiration from the mindboggling visual techniques used by Flickr user Sebastian Perez Duarte.
You can watch the video after the jump.
Continue reading ‘Chiapas Sak Tzevul – Spellbinding Music Video From Mexico’
I can’t get this song outta my head.
Say hello to U900, the sensational ukulele duo from Japan.
You can buy the album on Amazon here.
Sell outs? No, just irrelevant now.
Terrific promo video for the Gorillaz’ new single ‘Stylo’, taken from their upcoming album ‘Plastic Beach’. The music video features a cameo by an A-list Hollywood celebrity.
You can watch it after the jump, but I highly recommend checking it out in HD on YouTube.
Continue reading ‘Gorillaz – Stylo’
Apparently, Weezer are quite big in Japan. And just how big, you ask?
You will have to watch this video to find out.
[via Buzzfeed]
BLACK SABBATH – from a 1960′s cheap horror movie starring Boris Karloff , suggesting a holy day of witchcraft.
CHEAP TRICK – they say the band members asked a Ouija Board what they should call themselves.
COLLECTIVE SOUL – a term used in the popular novel “The Fountainhead”, by Ayn Rand.
EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL – from an ad for a British clothing store that would sell you “Everything but the Girl” that you saw in the ad.
MEGADETH – Dave Mustane was inspired by a government pamphlet he saw after leaving METALLICA. A Megadeath is a military term for one million dead (making World War II an 80 Megadeath)
Great list, but best read with a pinch of salt.
Watch ”Homeless Mustard” belt out his own angsty rendition of Radiohead’s “Creep” on The Opie & Antony Show.
Edit: NSFW lyrics.
