Ritalin – Hillbillies Fighting With Flamethrowers and Ice

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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.

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My 1st Big Break by Cut Chemist – First Music Video Shot With a 360 Degree Camera

Cut Chemist -Dj 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.

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