The first video is from much heralded Vampire Weekend and their song “Oxford Comma”. Fortunately this video features no scowling grammar teachers but rather skips along much like the song itself. The video itself is a continuous shot, meaning there was no editing involved, and took over 20 takes to complete. The band must be fans of Wes Anderson as the side scrolling landscape and multitude of seemingly random characters and costumes are undoubtedly his influence. Check it out…
Next up is from the red hot “Feed the Animals” album by Girl Talk. Some one has painstakenly took the time to put together the collection of music videos to sync in with all the tracks in one of his mixes. Now if someone could just make one continuous video to sync in with his whole album…Check tracks 2 and 3 out. Sparks sold seperately.
Current.com If you haven’t checked this site/TV Channel, get with it. It is an unbelievable array of content featuring mini pods, essentially user created content. Anything from sex, politics, music, the environment, war, etc., etc. Fascinating channel to give you inside look at many aspects of society and sub culture you never knew about.
This past week, they did a great Doc on Death Cab For Cutie. Really well done and highlights what a truly unique, talented, and inspiring group they are.
Stumbled upon these nasty vids of drums prodigy Travis Barker (Blink-182, +44) putting a fresh spin on some songs that would ordinarily never appear on this blog.
If you’ve seen the film A Scanner Darkly then you’re well aware of the digital editing technique known as “rotoscoping”. But judging by box office sales, you have not, so let’s refer to Wikipedia:Rotoscoping is an animation technique in which animators use computers to trace over live-action film movement, frame by frame, in order to create a matte for an element on a live-action plate so it may be composited over another background.
Sounds so basic, right?? So why am I telling you this? Well, yesterday I stumbled upon an incredibly well done video of all-star mash-up dj Girl Talk that will totally knock your socks off. Check this out:
I recently discovered a ridiculously good indie band from Jacksonville, FL known as Black Kids and cannot stop listening to their four-song EP titled The Wizard of Ahhhs. The highlight of the release is the synth heavy “I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance With You”, a track that has been played roughly 457 times on my iPod in the last month. Sample the unofficial fan video below and download the entire EP for free from their website here.
Keep an eye out for Daft Punk’s live CD coming out this fall (11.20.07 to be precise). Anyone who had the pleasure of seeing these robot men perform at Lollapalooza this past summer know just how lucky they are. Check out the video below and bask in the flashing lights of “One More Time” and “Aerodynamic” at London’s Wireless Festival.
