Her Morning Elegance – Beautiful Stop Motion Music Video
The music video for Indie artist Oren Lavie's ‘Her Morning Elegance’ is as dreamy and elegant as the song itself. The song has been quite well received by listeners, and…
Funny Commercial For Evil Dead: The Musical
The producers of the widely acclaimed, Evil Dead, The Musical, released this gruesomely-hilarious commercial to promote the show in Toronto.
The ad reassures potential audience members that the show was still a funny, if twisted, musical at heart.
Note: The commercial has lots of fake gore.
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Long Gone – Music Video Created Using 45,000 Photographs
The music video for the band Fat City Reprise’s song ‘Long Gone’ was created using thousands of still photographs.
The brilliant video was conceptualized and directed by Cesar Kuriyama, a New York based animator, who took 14 months to create the video. His director of photography took 45,000 photographs with a Nikon D200 DSLR camera, which were then later stitched together to create the effect of motion film.
Like most people, you will either love the music, or just hate it.
Watch the video after the jump.
Replica of the Daft Punk Helmet
The LED helmets used as props by electro-pop band, Daft Punk, cost $ 14,000 to make. LED Effects, the company which made the helmets, later put them on sale for a jaw-dropping $ 65,000.
Casey Pugh made his own low-cost replica of the helmet for Halloween, this year. He used a second hand motorcycle helmet, and an Arduino board to program and control the LEDs.
He also made a short time-lapse video documenting the entire process. Watch it after the jump.
Was Kurt Cobain a Marketing Genius ?
Brian Clark examines the astounding success of Nirvana’s Nevermind music album, and comes to the startling conclusion that Kurt Cobain was, in fact, a creative marketing genius of sorts. Snip…
Michael Jackson’s Thriller Meets Toons – Video Mashup
One more creative video mashup. Michael Jackson’s monster hit ‘Thriller’ meets various cartoon characters like Snow White, Bugs Bunny and Spongebob Squarepants..
Watch it after the jump.
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Take On Me – Literal Version of the a-ha Hit
The song “Take on Me” by Norwegian band a-ha, reached the number one position on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1985.
The success of the single could be attributed to the facts that the song was extremely radio-friendly, and also that it had an innovative, quintessentially ‘80s music video. The video blended rotoscope animation and live action sequences.
Dustin Mclean (aka Dustball), award-winning animator and musician, has now remixed the music video by adding his own voice and lyrics to it.
I don’t want to give too much away, but I just loved this version more.
You can watch the original after the jump. (more…)
Wild Beasts – Surreal Music Video Created Using the Droste Effect
Watch a surreal and trippy music video for the song ‘Brave Bulging Buoyant Clairvoyants’, the second single from the British band Wild Beasts' debut album - Limbo Panto. The visual…
Dirty Little Mermaid Parody
Straight from the WTF department. A dirty, but surprisingly well-sung parody version of the ‘Part of Your World’ song from The Little Mermaid.
My 1st Big Break by Cut Chemist – First Music Video Shot With a 360 Degree Camera
Cut Chemist, talented DJ Turntablist, was a former band member of the Latin funk group Ozomatli, and also the hip hop group Jurassic 5. Some of you may remember his small cameo role as a chemistry professor in Juno.
The super-trippy video for his latest track “My 1st Big Break” is supposedly the first commercial music video to be shot with a 360 degree, panoramic camera.
As always, do watch the video in HD if you have the bandwidth to spare.